20161031 (apologetics)

Red is for seeing reality; blue is for blissful ignorance

She said, “I don’t believe in God.”

If you don’t know a person well

You can’t really tell what they

Mean when they say that. It could

Mean she has rejected the Sunday 

School God, the great Santa

Claus of heaven, who dispenses

Life’s joys and comforts. Many 

Have forsaken this God who 

Forsook them first: the God 

Who took the beloved parent;

The God of the infant born dead;

The God of the drunken driver

Who killed their kid in the street.

God’s failures began with toys

Not received, championships

Unwon, promotions missed,

To sickly, burdensome spouses,

Alcoholic children, to good men

Who died in war when cowards

Escaped. This God who sustains

My breathing has given me a 

Bad heart? This God plays 

Favorites who get all they need,

All they want, and fulfilled, 

Die quietly in their sleep. Do 

You need proof there is no

One guiding the stars in their 

Courses? Look from atop the

Parapets on the wicked who 

Prosper while His beloved sons

And daughters suffer disease

And death, pestilence, enemies

Slaughtering their sons, raping

Wives and daughters, sisters,

Laying waste proud monuments.

Great order in the exploding

Universe? A numbskull manager

Of a third rate coffee shop rules

More wisely. Whole nations have

Peopled themselves into poverty

Eating their seed grain before it 

Can die in the baked hardened

Earth. This is how He generously

Supplies His progeny? Somewhere

Along her path she consumed

The red pill and is convinced she

Knows all as things really are.

You keep taking the blue pills

Of willful pretense in a world of

Design and purpose, blissfully

Ignoring evidence to the contrary.

Her honesty stunned me. Always

Presuming myself an expert on

Human nature, I did not see this 

Coming. Just as there are many

Types of atheists and many types

Of believers, some likely doubt 

Their decided rejection just as 

Those who doubt their professed 

Belief. I have no arguments to

Dissuade atheists which they

Do not already know and

Find unconvincing. The 

Proofs of God are no aid here.

The proven Gods are devoid

Of content—who are known

Only as unknowable. At least

With Euclidean theorems we

Learned about triangles.

c. J.S.Manista, 2016