I expect God will be there

Gold cherry

By mcmanaman

Mon, 01 Sep 2014
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Slightly strange isn't it

that I can't call myself an atheist.

 

I've been thinking about the afterlife or more specifically

the bit directly before it.

 

I guess it's because I don't like to take my hands 

off the harness of the rollercoaster.

 

Some people don't wave their hands in the air

for the photo at the finish.

 

If you're locked in a toilet you carry on shouting for help

even though you know no-one will hear you.

 

I'm not religious but I'm not not religious.

I'm just trying to work things out

 

and I know that like with magic tricks

nothing is enhanced by knowing the answer.

 

We need to all say on our 30th birthday thank God

we weren't one of the unlucky ones

 

and surely not questioning why the world exists is like

getting back home and finding a selection of your favourite cheeses

 

on your kitchen table with crusty warm bread and not saying

but someone must have put them there.

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Comments

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

I think probably most people would agree with you. I like that last 4 lines especially. Studying biochemistry, I understoodand the impossiblity of any chance production of the universe, but it was actually reading the Bible to see what it really said about Jesus Christ, and praying for comprehension that got me to know him, and his grace. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by mcmanaman on

Thanks Rhiannon! Really nice you took time to read x

Submitted by scratch on

The madness of atheism is equal to the insanity of blind faith so I like the balance that I find here.  Good as usual John.

 

Submitted by Bee on

I really liked the reasoning in this piece. And all so well put.

Bee

Submitted by blighters rock on

Love the cheesy bit at the end and the dippy sauciness of thought throughout. The atheist idea that we were magically generated from the primordial fart of universal nothingness is funny and I prefer to think we were a heavenly experiment to see if good could prevail from scientific knowledge. I certainly won't be holding my breathe much longer on that one, though.

Religion's quicksand for the mind but there's no reason why we can't believe in a God of our choice and understanding, purely for the sake of our own sanity and wellbeing. That said, my girlfriend has just lent me the Rainbow Good News Bible, which is the bible for children. I'm no good with Shakespeare and all the thou hast casteth the thingumijig thrice mallarky but I'd like to understand the endtimes betterer so I can scurry off to a hamlet in sw France and live off the land with a hunting dog before the caca hits the proverbial fan.

One typo;  

and surely not questioning why the world exists is like

getting back home and find(ing) a selection of your favourite cheeses

 

 

Submitted by Canonette on

God will find us.  If we let him.  So it's good to keep our minds open.  smiley  Love the cheesey ending and warm bread is a nice touch.

 

Submitted by Syphon on

This is a fantastic piece of poetry, Well deserved gold cherry.