God Is Dead

We're On Our Own

By: Charles Giuliano - May 03, 2015

God is Dead

Nothing new actually
Shocking once
Not any more
Be reasonable
Seven days
Not bloody likely
More like billions
Before that
Vast emptiness
Soup that exploded
Big bang
Eventually us
Not by some God
Created in our image
Fear and superstition
Filling the void
Huge coverup
The Bigger Lie
Many versions
All wrong
Providing order
Repression through
True believers
Total bonkers
Utter nonsense
No heaven and hell
Just here and now
Rationality
Doing the right thing
Basic humanism
Moral existentialism
Divinity as logic
And ethics
Not preached
By priests

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Reader Comments

"Hold on there, Charles. God is not as dead as you say. He is alive in the hearts of a billion and a half of worshipers of Allah who submit to Him and to whom "basic humanism moral existentialism divinity as logic and ethics" is not only meaningless but an abomination. Heresy deserving of death. Think of wearing the orange coveralls, walking on the beach, kneeling in front of the hooded servant of Mohammed, peace be upon him. Total bonkers? Yeah, but whose? Carpe M4! Nice poem."

Posted By: jonas on 05-03-2015, 07:01 pm
"The bit about, "Rested," on the Seventh Day is an Hebraic riff on astrological planetary correspondence. (Rest, relaxation, and reefer are well-known stars in Saturn's constellation.) But I digress. A possibly crucial point here is, linguists have informed us that the, "Let there be light," verse is of "post-Exilic" origin. Indicating, in view of its resemblance to the scientifically-derived notion of "Big Bang," that in Classical Times, some Peacock Throne types knew something Our People didn't know. The old song (Sonny Boy Williamson's, "Your Funeral and My Trail," says, "Love made the world and everything that's in it." In lyric poetry, license allows us to play it, noble. On the other hand, saying that, "Lust..." did it, is likely a notch too explicit. Cherish really isn't the word--desire is. "In the Beginning, there actually wasn't even such a thing as time. That began with some kind of cosmic orgasm." So much for profundities, I got some salad to eat right now."

Posted By: jimmy midnight on 05-03-2015, 06:59 pm
"Nice Sunday message."

Posted By: Keith Shaw on 05-03-2015, 04:57 pm
"I think it was six days. He rested on the seventh. But who's counting? As for doing the right thing, basic humanism, let's feed the body & nourish soul at you-know-where, tomorrow Eve.? Carpe Diem!"

Posted By: Stephen Rifkin on 05-03-2015, 04:09 pm