Godbotherer
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A godbotherer is a religious person who constantly "bothers" God with trivial requests, or so-called intellectual appeals to God as the necessary creator of everything, great and small. Godbotherers place in God's hands everything from (in order of importance):
- the beginning of everything
- the evolution of man
- escaping the Babylonian exile
- winning World War II
- winning the super bowl
- winning a high-school football game
- surviving cancer
- surviving the flu
- finding your car keys
The term godbotherer is also used to indicate anyone who bothers other people about God.
[edit] Brief list of famous godbotherers
- Johann Sebastian Bach, and many other pre-20th-century composers, due to their dependence on godbothering patrons
- George Berkeley
- G. K. Chesterton
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Freeman Dyson
- Michael Faraday
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Graham Greene
- Heinrich Heine
- Edmund Husserl
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Martin Luther King
- C. S. Lewis
- Georges Lemaître
- Carolus Linnaeus
- Gregor Mendel
- Isaac Newton
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Leo Tolstoy
- Sigrid Undset
- Gene Wolfe
- John Wesley[1]