Brief Letter To a God-Defender: Tame Version
dear madam or sir
allow me a moment
for i have a rather pertinent question that has been bugging me like
crazy
for a long time
buzzing like a patch of black flies
at the edge of my hairline right at the nape of my neck smack dab in the middle of the
month of may
why
if your omniscient deity is soooooooo all powerful
does it need
you
to defend it?
can it not fight its own battles?
we have heard all your fairytale fictions to be simply
they
are
bullsnot
&
hogwash
we have heard all about the consequences that will be bestowed upon us for not believing
in your own
personal
god
and yet we still do not care
we still do not do what you say
we still do not believe as you do
in this murderous thing you call a god
instead
what we have
are real life atrocities
countless tales of people being
oppressed & tormented,
raped & beaten,
all in the name of your gods
we have wars upon wars,
genocides, famines,
epidemics,
&
natural disasters
all
piling up the body count
while your loving god
watches
moving the pieces around his little chessboard
that he created for his own amusement apparently
even if you will never bend
why do you feel that you cannot sleep until
you have made me
succumb to your idiot ways?
why must you run through cities, villages and towns
like paul revere
screaming at the top of your lungs
that all of us heathens need to repent
before the final days?
why can’t you let us all burn in your own personal hell?
yes, why can’t you do this
(picture it in your head---all the people that you ever disliked, burning for eternity),
and while you are doing it---please shut the up?
it must be an explosion of anger that rushes through you
every time that you come across a non-believer
(in whatever fictional story you believe in)
you must want to kill us with your own bare hands
for defiling your
creator
you must want your hands dripping with the blood of my own gouged
jugular
but a sense of beautiful calm flushes over you
as you tell yourself that you don’t have to
because your god will do it for you
and to you that means everything
that is all the justice that needs to be had
in this world
i do have to apologize
as i said this letter was to be brief
but i always find myself going on and on
when confronted with you god-defenders
i guess that is because
you
are
just
so
very
easy
to
offend
and i must admit
it does bring a smile to my face
and i need to get every one that i can now, don’t i, that is
before i “get what’s coming to me”
Copyright © Andrew Delapruch | Year Posted 2011
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