The message is clear: not ‘Worship me’, but ‘Follow me’. Photo: from Pxhere

‘I do not believe that God cares where I worship God, or even if I do.’

Thought for the week: Kate McNally’s tough love

‘I do not believe that God cares where I worship God, or even if I do.’

by Kate McNally 5th February 2021

Voltaire famously said that ‘God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favour ever since.’ I was raised with images of Jesus as a blue-eyed European who looked a little like my brother, with God as an old white man on a cloud, judging us all. We create God in our own image, and give God the gender of kings.