New Thought Philly Sunday Inspiration
Jul 26, 2026 · 16 min · 10 segments
Sometimes we can be triggered by a word or idea… it might be “taxes”, “church”, “prayer”, or “God”. Rev. Bill ...
Bill MarchionyHost
A lot of people who are allergic to the term God think of the judgmental guy in the sky with anger management issues and a lot of facial hair who's going to decide whether or not we're worthy of whatever we are hoping to have in our lives.
And as we grow in our understanding of the nature of the creative universe that we live in, that model, that image, that description of the divine creative power, it doesn't fit anymore.
We think of it sometimes as the creator, or nature, or the spark, or the source.
And a lot of times using a different word will let us not be triggered anymore and be able to understand it.
Actually, long before that, when I ran away from the church that I was brought up in, I was allergic to God.
And then I learned that there is one infinite creative power, one divine source that has been sharing itself as its creation since the very beginning of time.
If I believe that it was scripture, in the beginning, there was darkness and void in God.
That's the same story the scientists tell about in the beginning there was a singularity, immensely dense, and it began exploding.
For millions of years there was only light, and then it started turning into matter, and then it started turning into more matter, and then it got more and more complicated, and eventually it wound up as shopping malls and me.
So I inoculated myself to the word God because it turns out that's what I meant.
And the idea of the judgmental anger management issue guy in the sky on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel pointing down and saying, you can, and you can't, and you might, didn't really apply.
But it's important for me to remember that there are trigger words that get people to react.
A lot of people who are allergic to the term God think of the judgmental guy in the sky with anger management issues and a lot of facial hair who's going to decide whether or not we're worthy of whatever we are hoping to have in our lives.
And as we grow in our understanding of the nature of the creative universe that we live in, that model, that image, that description of the divine creative power, it doesn't fit anymore.
We think of it sometimes as the creator, or nature, or the spark, or the source.
And a lot of times using a different word will let us not be triggered anymore and be able to understand it.
Actually, long before that, when I ran away from the church that I was brought up in, I was allergic to God.
And then I learned that there is one infinite creative power, one divine source that has been sharing itself as its creation since the very beginning of time.
If I believe that it was scripture, in the beginning, there was darkness and void in God.
That's the same story the scientists tell about in the beginning there was a singularity, immensely dense, and it began exploding.
For millions of years there was only light, and then it started turning into matter, and then it started turning into more matter, and then it got more and more complicated, and eventually it wound up as shopping malls and me.
So I inoculated myself to the word God because it turns out that's what I meant.
And the idea of the judgmental anger management issue guy in the sky on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel pointing down and saying, you can, and you can't, and you might, didn't really apply.
But it's important for me to remember that there are trigger words that get people to react.
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