A lawsuit filed by a Nebraska legislator against God was recently dismissed because God could not be served with papers. But it turns out that He can file amicus briefs in court. The Kingdom of Heaven World Divine Mission has filed a brief on behalf of God in the case challenging California's Prop 8. And you're gonna love this chick.
Yes, a woman who calls herself Divine Queen Mariette Do-Nguyen claims to be the true third part of the trinity, God's "Advocatess" on Earth. Here's what she says about herself:
On January 2, 1947, the fully human natural body of the Divine Queen Mariette was born in the world, from a woman in a village located in Nam-Dinh, North Vietnam. This was shortly before the war between North and South Vietnam began. This war divided Vietnam into two governments, and she followed her beloved natural parents to South Vietnam.The Divine Queen Mariette as fully human survived the war between North and South Vietnam which had become the American-Vietnam war. On April 28, 1975, the fully Divine Queen Mariette's natural family left Vietnam to go to the United States. She and her immediately family arrived Camp Pendleton State of California in middle May 1975.
My favorite part of her bio is when she says that her "full divinity slowly became visible to her natural being" in 1991, thus ending "the Divine Queen's natural career as a life-insurance agent" in 1994. Apparently she's now a full time Messiahette. In the brief, she "solemnly declares" that she is "both fully God and fully human in nature, and currently I am on Earth dwelling among the human race. My fully God nature is Messiah's sibling in the Holy Trinity's family."
And has quite an interesting theological view about how God...I mean she...created human beings. Darwin got it all wrong, you see; man evolved from bears:
God created the sea's living creatures from dirt, either from the bottom of the sea or from loose dirt from the ground. God then created living creatures, various kinds of birds that reside on the ground or on tree branches. The living creatures residing underground and on the ground were the last of three phrases of God's creation of living creatures of all kinds. Until these days, dirt was still being used as the natural substance for God to create insects.The Bible recorded that human natural bodies were created after animals, because human natural bodies went through a transformation process.
Living creatures reside and crawl on the ground or fly in the airspace. God placed living creatures' souls to mingle with soft dirt. The spirits of these souls grew their natural bodies to a round long shape--worms. During the process of growing body parts, the supernatural power from the living creatures' souls were formed and nourished. Dirt was the natural substance for worms' souls' supernatural power during the process of God's creation of worms.
The worms broke into pieces, and the broken parts contained the residual spirit. Immediately, God gave each part new souls, which were different from worms' souls. These souls descended inside the worm pieces and were created with a different formula for supernatural power, depending on the kind of living creatures into which they evolved.
God uses worms' broken pieces as natural substances, creating other wild living creatures and animals that have two legs and two arms, or four legs--some have many legs. Their offspring are formed in their image after exiting the birth canal, while others are born as eggs and then hatch into animals.
From the first time worms broke into pieces, God had chosen certain pieces to evolve into human natural bodies. These living creatures' offspring are borne into natural bodies, with two arms and two feet. Through a very long process of various animals' transformations, the prospect of human beings slowly changed, from one kind to another, then to monkeys, monkeys into bears, and finally to the human physical bodies.
(The theory of monkeys to human natural bodies is incorrect, because monkeys have long arms and long tails. Humans first changed to monkeys and then to bears. In order for species to evolve into human natural bodies, God changed the souls' creation formula from long arms and tails to shorter arms and tails, and He changed from monkey souls to bear souls before having souls evolve into human souls. Bears evolve into human natural bodies. In addition, the theory of sea creatures evolving into human natural bodies is totally incorrect. Sea creatures must remain under water.)
God created human souls by changing the supernatural substance for creating bear souls, and He sent this soul into monkey wombs. In this way, bears did not grow long tails, long arms, and legs like a monkey. God then changed the supernatural substance for creating human souls, and He removed short tails, hair, and the shape of bears' faces and sent this design into bear wombs. At this stage, after birth, the natural bodies were not wholly human yet. During the process of growing up, the natural bodies were changing, and this led to the creation of humans on earth.
I'm sure the court will give this brief the due attention it deserves. Someone must have a bird cage that needs a liner.

Ed Brayton is a journalist, commentator and speaker. He is the co-founder and president of 



Comments
See - even GOD (or at least a bit of god) is the friend of those reactionary, activist Judges and their courts. :) -DJ
Posted by: DingoJack | November 20, 2008 9:59 AM
She should get together with the Timecube guy...
Posted by: Dunc | November 20, 2008 10:13 AM
Apparently god is a few cards short of a full deck. Surely, when you have a lawsuit filed against you, then dismissed because you couldn't be served, you don't go filing amicus briefs and drawing attention to yourself.
Posted by: phisrow | November 20, 2008 10:13 AM
Have you seen the world lately?
Posted by: Tulse | November 20, 2008 10:16 AM
Her picture would look fantastic hanging next to the Ten Commandments plaque at your local courthouse.
Posted by: Ticktockman | November 20, 2008 10:26 AM
So the "Kingdom of Heaven World Divine Mission," wants to legally represent God? I'm sure plenty of insurance companies are pissed about all those "acts of God" that cost them so much money every year.
Posted by: locklin | November 20, 2008 10:28 AM
"God created human souls by changing the supernatural substance for creating bear souls, and He sent this soul into monkey wombs. In this way, bears did not grow long tails, long arms, and legs like a monkey. "
I do believe god has to much time on his hands.
Posted by: Andrew | November 20, 2008 10:37 AM
In support of true academic freedom, I hope that Divine Queen Mariette files a federal suit to get God's side in the science curriculum of every high school biology class. I'd argue it deserves at least one week's worth of study, anything less is fascism so sayeth Ben Stein. ;)
Posted by: Michael Heath | November 20, 2008 10:46 AM
First of all, it's easy to serve God. Since God is everywhere all the time, just leave a copy of the pleadings on your front porch. That constitutes actual service. However, God will almost certainly default because He doesn't have a word processor to prepare pleadings. Courts no longer accept pleadings etched into stone slabs. You can find these things, or replicas of them, in lots of courthouses, usually sitting in the entryway or outside on the lawn. The court clerk refuses to accept them, so there they sit.
Second, I thought Moon cornered the market on the whole "Messiah on Earth" gig. Is there going to be a Messiah smackdown? Or does God simply have to choose which one is His favorite? Does the one who isn't selected get a free bus ticket to Hell?
Posted by: Dan | November 20, 2008 10:50 AM
No really, I have nothing to do with this wackjob, I think one of my angels got a little carried away but kind of forgot the brains, sorry about that. Just ignore her and I'll quietly smite her with a lightning bolt, or give her leprosy or something, I'll just get her out of the way (so to speak).
Again I wholeheartedly apologise for this creature. - G_D
Posted by: GOD | November 20, 2008 10:54 AM
*sigh*
Posted by: Rev. AJB | November 20, 2008 10:59 AM
Dan,
Are you kidding? God clearly invented emacs, and emacs can do anything. All known applications (and natural disasters) result from various gnostic-like emacs key sequences.
Posted by: heddle | November 20, 2008 11:03 AM
Poe, old boy, is that you?
Posted by: Roy | November 20, 2008 11:11 AM
Dan - no, Moon only thinks he has a lock on the Messiahood, but there are probably hundreds floating around here and there. I am not sure where (maybe Africa?) but there was a recent story about some Messiah making a proclamation of some sort. Not really enough to do more than ignore it, but, like ancient Palestine (and related provinces and such) there is no lack of Messiahs.
Posted by: Badger3k | November 20, 2008 11:15 AM
Wow! After 48 years, I've discovered God. He's a Jew (G_D) and a true Scotsman; the s in apologise gave you away. Why not English or Irish? Because we'd call our drink Irish, not Scotch.
Posted by: Michael Heath | November 20, 2008 11:18 AM
"END GLOBAL TERRORISM, GRAND THEFT, NIGERIAN SCAMS, CORRUPT LEADERSHIP"
I hope President Bush doesn't read this. He would probably send the Marines to invade internet cafés in Lagos.....
Posted by: EyeNoU | November 20, 2008 11:55 AM
Hmmm...
Agent Orange perhaps?
Posted by: BobbyEarle | November 20, 2008 11:57 AM
I'm curious about how much money there is to be made in mumbo jumbo. I know at the top tier, Hubbard, Moon, Ratzinger, etc., it's astronomical. But how much can a more run of the mill hocus-pocus peddler make?
Her organization, Kingdom Of Heaven World Divine Government, endorsed McCain. So, they're not (or at least shouldn't be) tax exempt. Does anyone have a source for tax records for private organizations? The guy I used to use is unavailable for the next 8 years (4 if he behaves himself).
I tried going to the source and called the Divine Queen Mariette directly. (Unlike her other aspects, her home number is easy to find. Good for her.) She was pleasant enough, but rather cagey. I'm betting I'm not her first call. She hung up on me when I started asking about profits and prophets. I wish I'd lead with questions about the amicus, or maybe the meaning of life. After all, how often does one get God to pick up the phone?
Now I have a new problem. After having spoken to God can I still call myself an atheist? How should I interpret God hanging up on me? Should I call back and ask for forgiveness directly or can I go through the usual channels? I've got some thinking to do.
Posted by: Abby Normal | November 20, 2008 12:06 PM
Michael Heath - I've been watching you! -G_D
PS: Personally I prefer Tequila (Mescal, naturally).
Posted by: GOD | November 20, 2008 12:13 PM
She makes as much sense to me as "standard Christianity" does.
Can anyone prove that she's not who she says she is?
I have to admit that she does seem to be a "wee bit" off base on her Origin of Man theory.
Posted by: DonM | November 20, 2008 12:39 PM
I was pointing and laughing with everyone else, until I got to:
That is totally frickin' awesome. Now I am going to *have* to blog about this!
Posted by: thalarctos | November 20, 2008 12:58 PM
You go, Divine Queen!
Preach that controversy! Replace "God" with "Designer" and you have your next Discovery Institute publication.
Posted by: ZacharySmith | November 20, 2008 12:58 PM
Shirley she must be the FOURTH
Some people have no sense of propriety. . . .
Posted by: Amadán | November 20, 2008 6:47 PM
Aahh! There was an ursine moment in our evolution. Silly of us to not know.
Grin and bear it, I guess.
Posted by: Crudely Wrott | November 20, 2008 7:49 PM
I'll agree to meet them half-way. They get god to show up, in person, and Prop 8 stands. He doesn't, it gets overturned, but the invitation still stands.
That sounds fair to me.
Posted by: Bachalon | November 20, 2008 8:52 PM
Well, that's depressing. I rather liked the sea ape hypothesis.
Posted by: Leni | November 20, 2008 9:03 PM
Man evolved from bears, you say? I always DID rather like honey...
Posted by: Paul Lundgren | November 20, 2008 11:31 PM
The door to the asylum was left open again
Posted by: Ex Patriot | November 21, 2008 5:10 AM
I might have missed it, but did She ever fully explain why marriage has to be between one man and one woman? Sure, She quotes Her own book, but we all know when an author does that they really have no evidence to support their claims.
So, in the evolution from bears to man, do I have this right:
Polar bears --> white people
Grizzly bears --> brown people
Black bears --> black people
And so on?
Posted by: dogmeatib | November 21, 2008 9:30 AM
Peruvian Spectacled Bears --> short sighted people
American Short Nosed Bears --> people with bad Rhinoplasties
Wow this sure is fun. Thanks Dogmeatib! Any other suggestions? -DJ
Posted by: DingoJack | November 21, 2008 9:53 AM
Stephen Colbert will not be happy. :P
Posted by: phantomreader42 | November 21, 2008 4:32 PM
Sloth bears --> lazy people.
Sun bears --> day people.
Moon bears --> night people.
Posted by: thalarctos | November 21, 2008 5:25 PM
Care bears---> "Precious moments" Christians
Panzer bjorn ---> them moran liberal atheists
Posted by: Leni | November 21, 2008 5:36 PM
Huh, I'm pretty sure I've seen signs posted by this group at the north gate of the UC Berkeley campus. I'm wonder if they are getting converts.
Posted by: William | November 22, 2008 12:01 AM
Aw c'mon Leni, everyone one knows that:
"panzer bjorn" --> Swede drivers of Mercs or Beemers.
As a wise man once asked "How much can a Koala Bear?" :)
Taking it wider, what of the rest of the Carnivora? Did weasels develop into lawyers? Did cats develop into campy fashion critics? Did skunks or polecats develop into that homeless guy who invades your personal space on the bus who hasn't shower since '72?
Enquiring minds need to know. - DJ
Posted by: DingoJack | November 22, 2008 1:00 AM
Ed:\
I think you're on the money, except for one thing. If I'm not mistaken, it should be "messiahtrix" rather than "messiahette".
Posted by: democommie | November 22, 2008 9:35 AM
How about the spectacled bear? Must be where geeks come from.
Posted by: llewelly | November 22, 2008 11:10 AM
So now we have the real explanation for Teddy bears -> Theodore Roosevelt!
Posted by: blf | November 22, 2008 1:04 PM