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God Rant

I don’t believe in your god;
not the terrible punishing autocrat father
nor the selfish narcissist
not the one that needs to hear his name over and over like some aging musician
who cannot exist without celebrity
not the god of rules and regulations about hanging an animal in the air for slaughter
or which animal can be eaten and which spared.
not the one that strikes the 6 year old with leukemia because
“he needed another angel in heaven”
not the god that sometimes gives you a home run or a touchdown
in some meaningless game
or the one that for many centuries gave you a win in battle
or enough rain for your crops
if you gave him a virgin
not the sociopathic god
the god with anger issues
the god that needs to take a course in non-violent communication
at the very least for christsakes.
In other words,
I don't believe in the god that you have created in your own image
the god of self justification
the god of retribution for all your sufferings
the god of explanation for all that cannot be explained
the god of rewards and merits
the god that changes the rules
the god that is scared of his own shadow.
 
herbavore said:
God Rant

I don’t believe in your god;
not the terrible punishing autocrat father
nor the selfish narcissist
not the one that needs to hear his name over and over like some aging musician
who cannot exist without celebrity
not the god of rules and regulations about hanging an animal in the air for slaughter
or which animal can be eaten and which spared.
not the one that strikes the 6 year old with leukemia because
“he needed another angel in heaven”
not the god that sometimes gives you a home run or a touchdown
in some meaningless game
or the one that for many centuries gave you a win in battle
or enough rain for your crops
if you gave him a virgin
not the sociopathic god
the god with anger issues
the god that needs to take a course in non-violent communication
at the very least for christsakes.
In other words,
I don't believe in the god that you have created in your own image
the god of self justification
the god of retribution for all your sufferings
the god of explanation for all that cannot be explained
the god of rewards and merits
the god that changes the rules
the god that is scared of his own shadow.
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herby, i love this so much.
Rage of the logician, precision of a hunter of wild hypocrisy. As i did a degree in English lit, i cannot help but read analytically; but to me the final line sums up - so succinctly - the "man-made" nature of dogmatic abrahamic religion...i

I'm ashamed to admit I've never posted in 'words' before, as i write quite a lot, but sort of keep a lot of it personal/separate....but i wrote my friend a poem this morning in a half-awake/half drugged sleep.
I might change a couple of (ir)relevant details and post it. You've inspired me :) <3
 
the god that needs to take a course in non-violent communication
at the very least for christsakes

Chuckled at that.
 
Fuuuuuuuck that was good, Herby. Quality post as always. This poem is not mine, and it has a slightly different "commentary", but if I may:

I think that I shall never see
a poem as ugly as a flee
a flee whose hungry mouth is pressed
against a buttock or a breast
a flea that spreads disease all day
and lifts its little claws to pray:
poems are made by you and me,
but only God can make a flea.

I think that no one's ever made
a poem as powerful as AIDS
or plagues that may in summer kill
half the bishops in Brazil
and share the good Lord's Final Answer
with clots and cholera and cancer -
for God concocted pox to mock us,
staph and syph and streptococcus:
poems are made by bards and hacks,
but only God makes cardiacs.

I think that I shall never smell
a poem as pungent as a Hell,
where grinning devils turn the screws
on saintly Sikhs and upright Jews,
giving them the holy scorcher,
timeless, transcendental torture:
poems can make you want to yell,
but only God can give you Hell!


I form the light, and create the darkness:
I make peace; and create evil:
I the Lord do all these things.

~ Isaiah 45:7
KJB
 
It was in a zine I randomly checked out at a record store. I had it memorized about 70%, so was able to use the lines I remembered to look it up online.

I wish I could give credit to the writer but I can't find a source anywhere. There isn't much online presence of the poem, just two or three sites and neither seem to credit it with an author's name :(

Good one though, huh?
 
Excellent herbie, I loved it.

If God (the one of Abrahamic religions) is supposed to be a perfect entity, why the jealousy? The vengeance, etc. I know mortal, imperfect human beings who have transcended these traits. He's a contradictory figure and I think you illuminate this very well in your piece. Well done :)
 
Nice. God of our own understanding.

I'm starting to feel inspiration for writing again. It's been a few years for me, except for the poems I used to write my ex.
 
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