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Why I Stopped Believing

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She's a regular Paul or Matthew in explaining God
Speaking in holy verse that voices the Eternal.
Never mind the rhyme and meter, or lack thereof
God doesn't need such things to command.
Her poignant description of the Lord of Hosts:
He (God's a He, of course, no doubt about it
As she Just Knows These Things) is inside us,
Like how her dog ate something funny once
And now he has worms crawling in his heart
Except you don't have to have an operation
To remove God.  You just stop believing in Him
And it's a SIN SIN SIN that means you're going to
That fiery place people talk about after "what the"
Where she won't miss you the slightest.
Description over. She throws her arms out dramatically
And you can almost picture the halo shining above her.
Do I understand God now? she asks, smiling blithely.
I nod and amen, but I'm really thinking that
If this is God, I don't believe in poetry.
Stop trying to explain God, damnit. It takes all the holiness out of God. And also stop assigning a gender to God. That's even more annoying.

For a record, this is not atheist, and I am a devoutly spiritual Jew.
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vree's avatar
If you don't attach a description to god, how do you avoid everyone's opinions to have to be accepted either all correct, or all completely incorrect?