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Is there a God
By brook_rivers
07 May 2006
This is a poem I wrote several years ago. as a religious theme has cropped up I thought I may as well put it up, even though I don't really favour this poem. It is in response to Josie's poem and my own Pebbles. It is in clear contrast to my more recent poem but raises some questions which I think I have given a very inadequate answer to, in my past blind belief!



Is there a God?
A question that has entered many a mind,
 
Is there a God?
The world is full of poverty

Is there a God?
The world contains so much unhappiness

Is there a God?
The world is full of fighting

Is there a God?
The world is contaminated by evil

Is there a God?
My answer is -
There is a God but he is watching us from a far.

From a distance you don't see the things that you would close up.
From a far everything looks beautiful.

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There definitely is
Written by Josie (2849 comments posted) 7th May 2006
There definitely is a God, and he has told mankind many times how to live - it is not just printed in the Bible but in all religions - but there are none so deaf as those who do not want to hear. The poverty in the world, the fighting, the meanness, and everything else is the work of human beings. There is enough money in this world for a roof over every head and food on every plate, but people do not want to share - and the politicians are only interested in keeping the taxes low instead of raising the taxes and letting people share our resources. That is my view - but I don't think people like others to have different views I also think.

Written by brook_rivers (486 comments posted) 7th May 2006
As I said before I appreciate everyone's view point and everyone is entitled to their own opinion.  
 
IMO none are taxed so harshly as the poor. A hint of marxism in that comment and that didn't solve anything did it?! I have studied the argument for human evil & there are many complex theories surrounding this as well as that of the fact there is more than one religion in this world & more than one Diety worshipped and all the doubt that brings. Honestly I have looked & listened as many others have done, and they haven't liked what they have seen. I am not against the idea that there is some form of God, but against the contradictary Christian Bible and that is my opinion. There must be a poor view of God if it is thought he can allow all this suffering to go on in the world. 
 
And BTW how are natural disasters explained? ?
One explanation ....
Written by Bagheera (685 comments posted) 8th May 2006
One explanation .........
Written by Bagheera (685 comments posted) 8th May 2006
.......... no idea what happened there! :(  
 
How do you explain music to someone born deaf? 
Or the colour yellow to a blind person? 
To appreciate Good (according to SJ theory when Aaahhh wor nobbut a lad!) to have to have some experience of what Evil is .......  
 
Maybe a simplistic view, but it has its own logic ....
try again ....
Written by Bagheera (685 comments posted) 8th May 2006
:upset I'm not intended to put my thoughts in coherent form, apparently: that's also jumbled! :eek  
 
SJ theory c. 1970+/- was thusly: 
 
If you have never experienced Evil you cannot have a full understanding of what is Good. 
 
A deaf person cannot appreciate the beauty of music 
A blind person would find pictorial art impossible to understand. 
This was presumably one of the reasons they then proceeded to beat the Devil out of us in order to leave us as "Good" persons when we left their tender care ..... :grin
Keep on questioning
Written by Bottleblondesurfer (3590 comments posted) 8th May 2006
To go back to the poem which is just so stark and simplisic in its honesty. It is all the the last two lines.  
I actually fear they may be a God I just wish there wasn't . 
But of course if there wasn't we would have to invent one as we have already done.We have created him in our own preferred image and see in him what we need to see to suit our prejudices. 
Whenever the questions that the poem raises are asked the religious hide behind bland, vaccuous platitudes.It's good to see the young are still asking them. 
BBS

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