Trailblazing from the Dead-end
(In An Age When God is in Hiding)
Ruel F. Pepa
The drama has worsened from corny to nauseating. The deity
who has claimed the earth and everything in it is his[1] is absent—contrary to his claim of omnipresence—in the midst of folly
and irresponsibility pulled off by the very humanity he appointed
to be the stewards thereof [2]
How dare has this so-called omniscient Lord God
of Judaeo-Christian mold bestowed such a colossal obligation
to humanity whose limitations and tendencies
he at the very beginning knew very well.
And now, what we find on Earth are myriad forms
of human-made chaos and devastations that in some instances
have now advanced close to annihilation.
Does the Judaeo-Christian claim that “The earth is the Lord’s
and all that is in it” still make sense or are those words
simply an expression of the past wistfulness of a deity
in his megalomaniac illusion?
Obviously, this deity has given up all his claims of omnipotence
and what he has decided to do is simply to escape elsewhere
and disappear from a world whose morality has gone awry:
Heinous crimes, ethnic-cleansing wars, massive environmental degradation in various forms, alarming poverty, severe famine, disturbing economic exploitations and other blatant appearances of humanity’s inhumanity to humanity.
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