Why
The Question of why
one three letter word
why did you climb Mount Everest
because it's was there
Dad why do we have thunder and lightning
with knowledge of the time
perhaps his father answered
because theirs a God in the clouds
hitting and anvil
making the noise and the lightning
Thor the God of was born
why do we have wars
perhaps because one tribes crops failed
but another tribes crops could feed them
warriors fight for a chef
warriors fight for their tribe
Warriors want food
what do we do with the beaten tribe
perhaps slavery began
beaten tribes become victims to the winners
Read the stories of fiction
the human brain has an imagination
how much religion
was created by the human imagination
Why do we have wars
people forced to live in poverty
will create an army to fight back against oppression
leaders wanting money
will attempt to build empires
and live off the profits of tax, tithe or tribute
A million people paying tax
is half the money of two million people paying tax
Why do we have wars
because we can
because we are greedy and want more money
because we are suffering and want better lives
why would God create people
why would God allow people to suffer
being the only cognitive being in existence
would be lonely
creating other cognitive beings
would satisfy a need for companionship
people create their own suffering
people create their own wars
with crop rotation and investment
we don't need to suffer from famine
stop having wars and you stop creating refugees
invest in companies and tax money will come from wages
Tax money can be used to build schools and roads
your countries success depends on your peoples success
I look at the world the battle between rich and poor
communist Muslim and christian
a world of people suffering from poverty and war
from hatred and conceit
yet you create your own problems
war creates the refugees but people create the wars
refugees without jobs create poverty and starvation
conflicting ideas create the wars
and yet human being create the conflicting ideas
human beings create their own suffering
Perhaps God created the Corona Virus
not sure just one of the potentials
but if he did he had good reason
in the parable of the talents
Christ told people to invest Gods money
to make five times more
in the parable of the good Samaritan
we had a duty to care for the people
for two thousand years
we have stolen Gods money
spent it on ourselves
and not taken care of
the planet and people
Copyright © Bernard Barclay | Year Posted 2020
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