Bill O'Reilly is mad at God. Huh. I'll bet a lot of women are mad at God for Bill O'Reilly.

[thewayne]

"Am I mad at God? Yeah, I'm mad at him. I wish I had more protection. I wish this stuff didn't happen... These people at the New York Times... don't want me in the marketplace. That's what this is all about."
—Bill O'Reilly, in wake of report on $32M settlement with Fox News colleague re sexual misconduct accusation

Somehow I don't think God is too happy at you, either. No hint of personal responsibility for what he did: had he not done it, it wouldn't have happened. I think the worst part was hearing about the raise from the Murdochs after the $32M settlement when his contract was renewed.

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[thewayne]

That's about the size of it: I am rich and powerful and all should worship me/have sex with me.... wait.... why am I being sued? I'm amazed his wife is still with him.  Oh, never mind, they divorced and their daughter testified to a forensic examiner that she witnessed him dragging her mother down the stairs by her neck.  What a sweetheart ol' Billy Boy is. Maybe the Trials of Job might smack some humility in to him, but probably not.

[silveradept]

The funny thing is, Job is about an adversary making a bet with God that the reason people worship him is because he does good things for them. It's essentially about trying to find where the point is in life that someone would tell God to fuck off because too much bad stuff has happened to him. And Job doesn't.

(So it's less about instilling humility in anyone, and more about bearing your suffering in silence. And also, at least according to a professor I respect, about proving how much of a dick God will be to his people in the service of winning a bet, which isn't very Godly at all.)