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Forgotten Dreams Jun 2014
People ask me why I do not believe in God, so this isn't a poem just an explanation for my borderline-blasphemous atheist views. All over the world people suffer: children are abused, women *****, men tortured. Yet people still trust a happy grandfather up in the skies to make their lives perfect. Yeah, people say that heaven is this great place but why do people on earth have to suffer to get there? Okay, some religions believe in sinning, but isn't it a sin to watch as 4,000 children die every single day just because they don't have enough water?  If there actually turns out to be a God, I would honestly rather rot in hell for eternity than sit up there being happy whilst people down here suffer...

So yes, I do not believe in an omnibenevolent God that sits in the skies, because if he loved everyone then why let his "children" suffer?
omnibenevolent definition: all loving
Deyer Jan 2015
God must be human
because
I didn't really cry at my uncle's funeral
because
I couldn't stop crying at my dad's
because
a girl I went to highschool with just died, she was 22.
God must be human
because
mistakes have been made
because
World War
because
I can't seem to remember my locker combination.
God must be human
because
I look just like my dad
because
every day is a reminder that he's gone
because
that couldn't have been intentional.
God must be human
because
no omnipotent being would allow for such destruction
because
no omniscient being would ignore such destruction
because
no omnibenevolent being would withhold goodness.
God must be human
because
because
because
because
I am.
gray rain Jul 2016
I thought I believed in a God,
a superior being who decides when we drop.
Then I read His book, His word
and thought it was inconsistent
because how can something so 'perfect' have mistakes.

So I stopped believing
kept my negative outlook because why be positive in the end we're not receiving
I didn't have a goal to reach
and my old views were no longer mine
I wasn't into the'one life' thing and wanted more takes.

Then I was confused
because again I changed my views.
I unsure what to believe anymore.
I wanted an afterlife and I believe in it too
but wouldn't an omnibenevolent God let me choose.

And can't decide whether He's real or made up
because I like to think there's truth in every holy book.
And I'd like to think I get a choice
but I'm mortal and unsure if it's true.
So I'll continue believe either way I win and loose.

— The End —