if God could die...

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If “God” could die, then He was never more than an idol—
a brittle construct of priestly decadence,
a shadow cast by the herd’s fear of freedom.

 

The true God, if such a one were,
would not collapse beneath the laughter of the marketplace,
nor be buried in the rubble of cathedrals.
What dies is the fiction of the weak,
the hollow mask of divinity erected to tame the strong.

 

You proclaim “God is dead”—
but what you have slain is only the scarecrow of your fathers,
the pale simulacrum that demanded obedience.
The eternal does not perish;
only idols rot.

 

So let us be honest:
your corpse is not God’s,
but the corpse of man’s own invention.
And the task remains—
not to dance on the grave of divinity,
but to forge anew what is worthy of eternal recurrence.

 

 

 

Author's Notes/Comments: 

 

If God could die, then He was never God at all.

A being subject to decay, to the rise and fall of history,

to the shifting tides of culture, such a one is no more than a mythic idol,

a projection of human frailty.

The true God is not a competitor within the world, but the ground of its being. He does not expire with the collapse of Christendom, nor vanish when belief wanes.

What dies is our conception, our brittle scaffolding of Him,

our cultural constructs mistaken for the Eternal.

But God Himself: the One who is Being itself,

the Alpha and the Omega—cannot die,

for He is the source of life,

not its subject.

So when you proclaim “God is dead,”

you have only buried the idol of your age.

The living God remains, unassailable, beyond the grave you dug.

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