For God's Sake

We don't often discuss religion here in this corner, because of my firm belief that I have mine and you have yours, and what's the point of further discussion?

As long as you allow me to believe in God as I do, I will allow you the same latitude, and that stance has always led me to shun the notion of proselytizing. I know some people feel the call to do so, and that's their right, but no one needs spiritual advice from me.

Except Bill O'Reilly.

The former Fox babbler is busy these days, angrily denying reports that said he paid a woman 32 million semolians to settle a sexual harassment suit. News reports say he paid the woman off, and then signed a contract with Fox to continue his evening chatfest, and then got fired when more allegations popped up, so to speak.

It gets very technical when someone says, "I did NOT pay off five accusers" while avoiding saying, "I did pay off three, however..."

Fox "News" dumped O'R this past spring. That much is certain. And it's all over these tawdry matters of chasing women such as Lis Wiehl. She was a legal analyst for that channel and appeared on Bill O's show for 15 years.  According to the New York Times, Wiehl accused O'Reilly of "repeated harassment, a nonconsensual sexual relationship and the sending of gay pornography and other sexually explicit material to her." They cited two people with knowledge on the matter.  

O'Reilly will only own up to "resolving three situations" to "protect (his) children from harm." 

Is it too judgemental to say that having a father who settles three sexual harassment "situations" is harmful in and of itself?  

Again, all this is a matter for William O'Reilly, his children, his attorneys, his former employer, and the women involved to sort out as they will.

What I have to say to him is that he should avoid saying this sort of thing:

"You know, am I mad at God? Yeah, I'm mad at him," O'Reilly said in a post on his website. "I wish I had more protection. I wish this stuff didn't happen. I can't explain it to you. If I die tomorrow and I get an opportunity, I'll say 'why'd you guys work me over like that? Didn't know my children were going to be punished? And they're innocent.'"

 - The New Yorker

I can't speak for God in this matter, but I do know that, as the one who invented humor, God has the ultimate sense of humor. I cite as just one example the fact that He saw fit to give me a patch of itchy skin that is just two inches away from the part of my back that my arms can reach.  

I also cite the fact that He gave us Norm Macdonald.

O'Reilly shakes hands with the Pope
before getting mad with God.

But getting mad at God? Bad idea, Bill. He gave you whatever it was that you used to get on TV every night and claim that there is a war on Christmas and write the 147 books you have published, all of them sort of like what a Cliff's Note book about a Cliff's Note book would be.  

You took your O'Reillyness and turned it into a fortune and you have to settle suits stemming from your own misbehavior, and you're mad at God?

Look in the mirror.