The cry goes up… <br />making atheists out of believers, <br />believers out of atheists… <br /> <br />The answer offered from the wise <br />or wiser, is <br />God granted Man freewill… <br />without qualification… <br /> <br />so couldn’t He have arranged <br />that we could commit suicide, <br />but not murder? Wouldn’t that <br />be fairer…? <br /> <br />Seems not – He has to keep <br />by His own rules; those same inexorable rules <br />that allow a single tyrant <br />to bring down a whole nation - <br />do we dare say: with its own consent? <br /> <br />And man seeks to rule his fellows’ lives <br />by some shadow of that divinely ordained law: <br />granting to us, in some countries, though not all, <br />the right to carry arms… that gun <br />we carry ‘for our own defence’; <br />we who cannot all defend ourselves <br />against our own impulses; <br />we who defend the right <br />to portray murder without limit on our screens… <br />as if to see it acted out, still preserves, maintains, <br />even asserts, our innocence… <br />we, too, dispense freewill.. <br />and call it ‘rights’… <br /> <br />the solemn bells ring deep and slow; <br />pause; say nothing; remember; learn.<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/how-can-god-allow-this/
