Answer #67 - Play the odds. But if you're wrong...

Question for a Sunday morning -

Is God really speaking through the Man/Woman on the Television Set who says that God is speaking through them?

Excerpt from Rules for Aging by Roger Rosenblatt:

 

Chapter 9:  Stay Clear of anyone - other than a clergyman - who refers to God more than once in a hour

One sees a growing number of professional moralists who appear on TV telling people what God wants of them. If these folks are right about God, it is splendid news, and one should follow them as if they were Moses. If, however, they have misinterpreted God's wishes - about political candidates, free expression, human reproduction, other issues on which He is said to be communicating His opinions to a select few - or if these professional moralists have mistaken God's voice for say, Elvis's, then paying attention to them may only lead to divine trouble.

Better to play it safe and avoid such people. The danger in hanging around them is that God may be tired of listening to them misrepresent Him and decide to revert to His old bad-tempered tricks with locusts and floods.  Of course, this being the 21st century, He may have refined His arsenal so that He can pick off only the offenders and leave the rest of us unharmed.  But I would not count on this.  God is good, but He may not be that good.