Well, when you think you’ve heard everything the world goes and throws you another curveball.
Seems other worldly encounters are all the rage these days, and its crucial you come back with some never before heard of info. So just as that pastor who said anything other than missionary on your married bed would get send you straight to hell– this Catholic priest has come back with a unique story of his own.
After suffering a heart attack and being declared officially dead, medics were able to revive him after 48 minutes. During those 48 minutes when he was dead, Father John Michael O’Neal claims he went to heaven and saw God.
According to him, God was a feminine like being, full of light. “Her presence was both overwhelming and comforting. She had a soft and soothing voice and her presence was as reassuring as a mother’s embrace.”
The Bishop, from Massachusetts, caused quite a stir with his comments when he recovered from his ordeal. He says the fact that God is a Holy Mother instead of a Holy Father is not going to stop his devotion to him, and that he is more determined than ever to spread the good word.
The problem is if his superiors would allow him to continue teaching his radical views. Though I don’t see the controversy; I always thought of god as an asexual being.
One thing is clear though; if God is a woman, she has really not done well protecting her own half of the species!
How did he know he was in heaven? What is the proof that his so called out of body experience were not brought on by the burrito with hot chilli lunch he had before suffering the heart attack? Sometimes when I eat very late and go to bed I also visit what I believe to be the ‘planet’ pluto. It starts with a warm flash, heat and lots of light. I see strange beings. Then I wake up with a cough and I know I am having a heartburn from the hot sauce I put on my chicken. Now if this guy has said he saw God as a female with a hot a** in hot pants walking with someone like Kanye West or god as a man in suit walking with Nicki Minaj, how may people will quickly dismiss this as nonsense?
The human mind can create all sort of things. It doesn’t make them real. “God is a female” narrative has existed in many cultures for centuries. The irony is the Christian church doesn’t believe in that narrative. But it wants others to believe in its version of the narrative. For catholics, this shouldn’t make a difference because they’ve been worshiping Mary for centuries. Only the evangelicals will cry murder because of their beliefs. How convenient then that the person who had that vision is catholic? The human mind sees what it is programmed to see. Say it loud! HERMENEUTICS!!