They Call That Love?

Some folks say that God is Love.

Oh, my goodness! Then sue me for libel!

He doesn't sound very loving to me--

The god that you find in the Christian Bible.

 

It's mainly the Old Testament god

Whose loving aspects are hard to find.

Watch out or he will harden your heart,

Give you boils, or make you go blind.

 

In fact, he is insanely jealous

And proud to be so, the writers say.

Even look at another god,

And there is going to be hell to pay.

 

He can be quite petty at times--

Indifferent as to whom he offends.

He doesn't want you to eat shellfish.

And what's his problem with cotton blends?

 

Very often he is unjust--

Sometimes for neither reason nor rhyme.

Work on the sabbath and you should be stoned!

Does that punishment fit the crime?

 

An unforgiving control freak,

He wants to micromanage us all.

And woe to you if you disobey him.

Look what they say he did to Saul.

 

A bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser,

He's truly worthy of being reviled

For telling his people to plunder towns

And kill each woman, man, and child.

 

Misogynistic, homophobic,

And very vindictive if you say no.

From sacrifices to wars and slaughter,

He seems to love to see blood flow.

 

Megalomaniacal,

He longs for glory and applause.

Cower when you stand before

The great and mighty Wizard of Oz!

 

For those who are unfaithful, he says,

Unless their evil rebelliousness ceases,

They will fall by the sword and their

Children will be dashed to pieces.

 

He often derives sadistic pleasure

In hurting those who don't adhere

To his commands and who do not

Sing his praises and live in fear.

 

Fear of what? Of retribution.

If you don't believe in him,

He threatens eternal punishment.

I hope that hell at least has a gym.

 

He always seems to be mean and angry.

Look how he treated the Philistines.

Acting like a malignant bully,

He isn't loving by any means.

 

A very unpleasant character,

Instead of a help, he's more of a bother.

I wouldn't want someone like that

To even be considered my father.

 

If you don't believe me, then you

Should read the Bible and you will see

How God in the scriptures is not so loving

As people make him out to be.

 

-by Bob B (5-20-25)

Reviews

[Irene_asteris]

Your poem is a powerful reminder that all these books and ideas of god as they believe in are created by humans. Personally i am not religious or anything and i have my own ideas. I believe in humanity and in myself and that I'm the one who decides my own future instead of some powerful entity and people hearing something like this always say that science can't prove everything. Like when the hell i said science is about proving the existence of god or not? It's more of understanding the working of our universe and existence but most dont understand it. If god really exist why would he want to prove himself that he exist? And why would he send his own creations to so called hell or heaven? I believe everything is set on. Our universe or nature itself it doesnt need those wild concepts of hell or heaven, virtue or sin in that. You'll pay for everything hood or bad during your life because mature is like that and that's what i believe although i am more of a believer of energies like we are all made up of positive and negative energy and the universe is in balanced state and whenever there's more negative energy anywhere the universe sends positive energy amd when there's too much positive the universe sends negative thus maintaining balance something like that.anyway your workis amazing

[Bob B]

Wow! I agree with you completely. Thanks for commenting.