A Rabbi was teaching his student the Hebrew Bible.
He explained that God created everything in this world
To be appreciated,
Since everything is here to teach us a lesson.
The clever student asked the Rabbi
“What lesson can we learn from atheists?
Why did God create them?”
The Rabbi responded,
“God created atheists to teach us the most important lesson of all,
The lesson of true compassion.
When an atheist performs an act of charity,
Visits someone who is sick,
Helps someone who is in need,
And cares for the world,
He is not doing so because of some religious teaching.
He does not believe that God commanded him to perform this act.
He does not expect a heavenly reward,
Or fear a divine punishment.
In fact, he does not believe in God at all,
His acts are based on an inner sense of morality.
Look at the kindness he can bestow upon others
Simply because he feels it to be right.”
“This means” the Rabbi continued
“When someone reaches out to you for help,
You should never say ‘I pray that God will help you.’
Instead, for the moment, you should become an atheist,
Imagine that there is no God who can help,
And say ‘I will help you.'”
If God is able and willing to prevent evil,
Then why doesn’t He always prevent it?
If God is able, but unwilling, to prevent evil,
Then doesn’t that make Him complicit to it?
If God is willing, but unable, to prevent evil,
Then why claim that He is omnipotent?
If God is not willing or able to do good or prevent evil,
Then, why do people claim He is relevant?
If God is just a voyeur to Man’s good and evil,
Then why claim His motives are benevolent?
If, as you claim, God seems to exist,
Then why do these questions seem to persist?
People have a spirit-shaped need within
Regardless of culture, faith tradition
Atheists et al are as gifted, giving, gregarious
You & families be blessed by The Universe
Every where without religion, good is done
Relationship, not religion, will heal all around
NOTE: Prayer can be communing with Earth (Mother Nature), the Universe, or People of integrity, even if dead today. We are leaving the heavy, weighty Earth plane, & interacting - in Lincoln's words - with the better angels of our nature. Shalom shalom, peace, Eeirene
A true atheist shouldn't bother with skepticism,
Shouldn't feel indignant, after all they simply
Don't believe in Something at all.
A true believer shouldn't bother with conversions.
Shouldn't be so repulsed, after all we share
A belief in Something.
A true atheist shouldn't bother asking why we suffer.
Honestly, they perplex me when they're blaming religiosity,
Not all of it was bad entirely.
A true believer shouldn't bother closing their minds.
Honestly life on Earth can be better if all beliefs
Came respectfully together.
A true atheist thinks we've all been evolving,
A true believer believes we've all been evolving spiritually.
A true atheist and a true believer
Shouldn't bother to dumbfound themselves through debating.
Should be a little more perceiving?!
Atheist don't believe in Jesus
But they will give Him a hand
And their last candy bar if they can
Religion is a far away place
A walk in the park feeding pigeons
Non believers brush their teeth
And floss on Sundays
Have good hearts
Faith in humanity
They respect mothers and babies
Like bike rides and always bathe
Rain makes them wet
Some eat at restaurants
They tip the waitress
Generation Y comes in all ages
As long as that is 18 to 29
With matching IQ's leaning toward 0
Millennials are different creatures
They don't give gratuity to any one
They believe in the one true God
Themselves because they're selfish
God help us Jesus
*Note: Generation Y, a.k.a. Millennials. Defined as those born between 1982 and 1993, they are now in an age range between 18 and 29 years old.
You would turn us all into puppets,
lacking the will to act, feel, believe--
making us into robots of flesh, subject
like slaves to genes and environment,
just the end result of eons of evolution.
Marx said money puled us down and
Freud made the unconscious a power,
while Sartre told us nothing exists
beyond your pulse and when that stops,
with your last heartbeat, you are nothing.
But they are all fools, blind and deaf, who
will not, cannot see the endless mixing of
the Divine with the mundane, not feel
the currents of the Great Mystery as It
swirls in turbulence through every life.
The atheists, God's existence refuse
Their action ready are to excuse
As believe with all their might
That are absolutely right
Till they die and see God who them enthuse!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
19 April 2016
Life is beautiful,
but how about afterlife?
This prominent atheist
downgraded all my hopes
for meeting with lost relates and close ones
and eternal life with my love
in Edem
or eternal suffering with my enemies
in Hell.
It is really awful for truly believers
one day lost all hopes for hopes,
There are no Hell,
no Paradise,
no reincarnation,
no escaping, no ressurection.
Comlete darkness before and after.
That truth equal to submit all Death of Deaths,
when come clearly understanding
that you are never meet more
with mother,
that you have not other chance
to be a director of company, or lieder of nation,
or savior of nation,
that no one saint or prophets
descend to you
with kind word in you last instances.
He didn’t deny God
but explained him
from the point of evolution theory,
If he really existed
he dwelled in frame of scienctific process
as some superhuman creature.
How long I prepared for grand miracle
and Judging day?
And now I perfectly informed
and got intrinsic prove
that I am
the greatest luck or mistake
and nothing more instead
in this cool mathematical explaining and expanding Universe.
There's no such thing as a Hindu horse, nor a Catholic cat
There's no such thing as a Protestant parrot, you can always be sure of that
There's no such thing as a Rasta rabbit, nor a Mormon mouse
There's no such thing as a sheep thats a Sikh, on that you can bet your house
These creatures have no religion at all, no sectarian divide
Their only ''rules'' are created by nature; and nature will provide
If only the ''clever'' human race had no superstitions
There'd be no more wars at all, no more senseless missions
For religion is based on superstition, filled with legend and myth
Telling you how to live your life and whom you should walk with
Back to that nesting bird in the tree, or even that wild boar
Have you ever heard of an animal that created a world war ?