{"id":3293,"date":"2024-08-09T07:57:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T12:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/?p=3293"},"modified":"2024-12-16T14:16:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T19:16:56","slug":"the-problem-of-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/2024\/08\/the-problem-of-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem of Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The sun was high in the sky,
 the grass green.
Though I had had some petty
 rough patches in my life,
 I was still untried.
\u201cPut me in, God.\u201d
\u201cOh, my child, so stubborn,\u201d
 He mercifully furrowed his brow,
 gazing at me lovingly.
\u201cI am your child.
 It is my destiny
 to take upon the suffering
 of the world to save it.\u201d
We looked over the infinite
 lake of suffering.
He took a bottomless cup
 and made as if to scoop it
 to its dregs.
With a deft slight of hand,
 He skimmed off a thimbleful;
 with the tip of a needle,
 He pricked the tiniest bead
 and dropped it into a fizzy drink.
In tenderhearted concern,
 He reluctantly gave it to me.
I joyfully drank it up.

 My tongue swole black-purple.
 My innards churned.
 I snowed flakes of flesh \u2014
  my skin began to disintegrate.
 My blood ran and ran and ran
  till I could not think straight.
 The hairs on my head turned ashen;
  God counted each one
  as they fell off randomly.
 I knew helplessness.
 I knew hell.

As innocent as a lamb, I bleated,
 \u201cWhy have You forsaken me.\u201d<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The sun was high in the sky, the grass green.Though I had had some petty rough patches in my life, I was still untried.\u201cPut me in, God.\u201d\u201cOh, my child, so stubborn,\u201d He mercifully furrowed his brow, gazing at me lovingly.\u201cI am your child. It is my destiny to take upon the suffering of the world […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-3293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-dragonfly-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3293"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3347,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293\/revisions\/3347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}