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Where was god? (Free verse) by little_big_nose

Where was god when she had to die? Where was god when she had to get high? Where was god when my cousins had to go away? And why isn't god there for anyone who is gay? Where was god on nine/ eleven? Was he just chillin' in Heaven? Will god ever be there When I really need someone to care? Or will god just run Just like he has always done? Why was it gods will To have him swallow all those pills? Allah, Buddha, Christ, it doesn't matter who They will always leave you in the blue Where was god when people died for him in 'holy wars'? What does god care, he can always make more Where was god through all my pain? Why was all my praying in vain? Where is god now that I have the knife? It doesn't matter now, I've taken my life

lastobelus 3-Jan-04/8:46 AM
I am deeply aware of and well-versed in both sides of the "contradiction between the existence of a benevolent, all-powerful Jesu and the existence of suffering," also known as the Argument from Evil. My entire family are fundamentalist pentecostals, many of them preachers, as well as most of my extended family. I know my bible & I know my atheism, since my atheism didn't come lightly but was purchased at great emotional & social cost. I disagree entirely that this poem is discussing the Argument from Evil in a meaningful way. I question whether the author has thought it through that far.

"Will god ever be there
When I really need someone to care?
Or will god just run
Just like he has always done?"

These are the words of someone angry at a god they want to exist for not answering there pleas, not the words of someone discussing the Argument from Evil for atheism.

Do I get my trousers back now?




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