Atheism, the Greek alpha privative applied to God
As if a letter could negate
The Word
But fashion has the apparent privative power
Belief is hard come by these days
In my day I’ve dallied with atheism
More as an academic posture, professional pose, poseur
Pretty important position to impertinently profess
To be unprofessional regarding the confession of God
As fashion
Quite unlike my younger years, when I didn’t know
In my gut
I didn’t know and I don’t know now, but believe
It’s hard to keep faith in mind and heart and life
In your gut
With a thinking mind, overthinking, ubermentation
Entertainment of doubts
It’s quite a thing to believe in things unseen
Unseemly, in fact, out of fashion
As if my mortal soul matters as does a hemline
Lifeline to eternity the believing mind, heart, life.
God whispers
Aethereal evidence
Evidence acquired through prior assent alone
Solipsistic criteria, a cry in the wilderness
That is this world, this world view, this zeitgeist, the spirit of this age
The Spirit and Words that give life
Life in a time and place in which belief is optional
Optimal
Words, Spirit, life, script for acting good, scripture
Inscribed on the heart, covenant, conformity to script
Information for theological formation not logical formulation
God whispers
We hear only with prior assent
Ascent out of that which is for this world
That which Is
That which makes this world
Faith in a doubt-filled world, the denial of the world, self-denial, other world
David Fekete 