tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33824560.post3540935954491366166..comments2024-01-29T17:34:57.576-07:00Comments on A Blister to My Eye: Church services are held in TucsonDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08274485227373284224noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33824560.post-58394686645140154752011-01-18T11:04:15.610-07:002011-01-18T11:04:15.610-07:00Hah!Hah!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33824560.post-14690009458753200842011-01-18T10:58:48.694-07:002011-01-18T10:58:48.694-07:00If people will keep on
Posting comments in verse,
...If people will keep on<br />Posting comments in verse,<br />My responses will surely<br />Just keep getting worse.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08274485227373284224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33824560.post-55207714674814406942011-01-18T10:57:18.126-07:002011-01-18T10:57:18.126-07:00The ball he'd have dropped
If not for God'...The ball he'd have dropped<br />If not for God's aid.<br />As always, all credit<br />To God must be paid.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08274485227373284224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33824560.post-37894477437278058742011-01-18T10:49:50.847-07:002011-01-18T10:49:50.847-07:00If catching the ball,
With a minute to go,
Is all...If catching the ball, <br />With a minute to go,<br />Is all thanks to Jesus,<br />Then what of Brett Favre?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33824560.post-26772840809593657922011-01-14T10:00:45.189-07:002011-01-14T10:00:45.189-07:00I'm not a good enough doggerel poet for that. ...I'm not a good enough doggerel poet for that. I can do a few lines to a certain rhythm, but I always wander astray quickly.<br /><br />As English Lit Barbie would say, "Rhyming is hard!"<br /><br />By the way, my Dec. 7 post started out to the rhythm of The Ballad of the Green Berets, by coincidence, but I couldn't stick with that, either.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08274485227373284224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33824560.post-65360838088525630262011-01-14T09:53:31.920-07:002011-01-14T09:53:31.920-07:00Can you have a heart attack from laughing?
Though...Can you have a heart attack from laughing?<br /><br />Though I have one critique.<br /><br />After the frist Stanze, I wanted that poem to follow the rhythym and rhyme to follow "Prasie God from whom all Blessing Flow," a sort of Gospel music from the skeptic. But that woul dhave taken too much time.<br />And I'm still laughing.Frank Darbehttp://frankdarbe.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33824560.post-28656049132865441572011-01-13T14:03:42.323-07:002011-01-13T14:03:42.323-07:00It's not God's fault because God doesn'...It's not God's fault because God doesn't exist. I'm mocking people who have made up this Skydaddy critter and then indulge in absurd intellectual convolutions so that they can believe he exists, is all good, all powerful, and all loving, all at the same time.<br /><br />I'm an atheist. Religion is bunk.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08274485227373284224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33824560.post-70894611904145196312011-01-13T13:52:17.695-07:002011-01-13T13:52:17.695-07:00So it's God's fault? I understand the fru...So it's God's fault? I understand the frustration of the human experience of suffering, death and destruction. But, it is just as narrow-minded to expect God to save all and to curtail suffering on earth as it is to believe in an all-knowing, all-seeing, completely omniscient God who created all.<br /><br />And remember, it is we humans in our worship of God who give credit and place blame. Your witty comments are more accurately describing the frail and all-to-human followers of God than God himself. It is the man who survives the mining accident that praises God for his escape and the athlete who praises God for her victory. It is humankind's way of being humble: to credit a being that is higher than we. <br /><br />But to blame God for inaction on the part of innocents is to mock his pre-eminence. I understand this creative criticism is founded in care and concern for those involved,and a personal frustration but it is insensitive to the faith that those involved (and their family and friends) have in the God you have mocked.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08257647241697248404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33824560.post-35859700744651385322011-01-13T13:13:13.713-07:002011-01-13T13:13:13.713-07:00Thanks!
Now I think I need to add a verse. That a...Thanks!<br /><br />Now I think I need to add a verse. That aspect always angers me, too: when a life is saved thanks to human courage and skill, but God gets the credit instead.<br /><br />Maybe I'll do that, once I recharge the doggerel battery in my brain.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08274485227373284224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33824560.post-59661729771329250032011-01-13T13:07:16.340-07:002011-01-13T13:07:16.340-07:00Oh, my! You have nailed it, David. Can't tell ...Oh, my! You have nailed it, David. Can't tell you how physically ill I become when someone spouts that drivel. Like the Hudson River plane landing, which prompted a drawing of god's hands holding up the aircraft (sorry, Sully, no creds for you), and yet when I asked about the later crash in Rochester that killed all aboard and wondered where god's hands were then, the not surprising response was--We're not to question god's ways! One can only shake one's head in the presence of such misguided certainty. Anyway, I am printing this poem for future reference. And thanks!<br /><br />An Oregon DUer.Words in Flighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10451853182003965600noreply@blogger.com