Is God Dead?

When God is removed, either by spiritualizing on the one hand or atheism on the other, what is left is what Steve Turner the English journalist writes about in his satirical poem Creed – which reads in part:

We believe that there is no absolute truth
excepting the truth that there is no absolute truth.

We believe in the rejection of creeds,
And the flowering of individual thought.

And then he writes in a postscript to his poem:

If chance be the Father of all flesh,
disaster is his rainbow in the sky
and when you hear:

“State of Emergency!”
“Sniper Kills Ten!”
“Troops on Rampage!”
“Whites go Looting!”
“Bomb Blasts School!”
It is but the sound of man
worshiping his maker.

And who is his maker? HIMSELF.

Malcolm Muggeridge wrote: “If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place.  It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.”