The Poetry of Angst

[tracilicious]

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Because I Don't Believe in Jesus

Because I don't believe in Jesus,
you say I'm gonna die.
Blasted into obsolescence
by Almighty God on high.
Along with both my babies
and five or six hundred million friends.
At least I'll have good company
when the whole world has to end.
As you're sifting through the carnage
(the bodies will stack to the moon),
perhaps you'll come across my visage
with a murky sense of gloom.
"Look at this poor girl" you'll say,
"Too bad her time was here.
All these sinners and these killers
were too stupid to see the end was near.
Her face almost seems familiar
in a hazy kind of way,
but God is love and God is light
and this was his judgement day.
Tomorrow she'll be out of mind,
so just toss her over there.
Now I'm in utopia,
so who really gives a care?"
Then you'll drift into eternity
living life free from pain,
but also art and love and song
and all that makes me want to live again.
But fear not, for He will wipe away those doubts
giving you pure complacency.
Which should certainly appease your guilt
that you've chosen to live today without me.

[flippyshark]

Boldly stated. The whole idea that the vast majority of humanity is going to be, at best, destroyed and at worst, eternally tortured, at the behest of a loving God, that was the horrific concept that propelled me away from evangelical Christianity, and toward the kinder, gentler brand. (Of course, I eventually left liberal Christianity as well.)

I get the impression that most people, deep down, sense there is something very wrong with the whole eternal condemnation idea. Some feel they have no choice but to go along with it, because it's what their faith teaches, but often when I converse with believers about it, I sense their unease, even when they say they accept such doctrines.

In lieu of a poem, here is a carol I used to sing, to the tune of the chorus of "The First Noel":

No Hell, No Hell, No Hell, No Hell
Love One Another And Things Will Be Swell

(Of course, I'm pretty sure you are coming out of a sect that doesn't believe in Hell.)