Imagine There's No Nothing

Dear Kate,

If there is a God and he is indeed able and willing to have our best interest in mind, there would be no pandemic, don't you think?

And there would be no need for any vaccine mandate or family breaking apart because of it, and everybody would have been able to gather this past (Canadian) Thanksgiving weekend in complete harmony, with impeccable judgement and behavior, perfectly peaceful (even the aunt with the smallest mind and biggest mouth), peaceable (even the uncle who gives a very good run for her money), peace-loving (that would be everybody, no less)?

While God is at it, he might as well work on my Monday morning mood (Tuesday if it is after a long weekend), afternoon tea, and my general dignity throughout a day: make it sustainable, not haphazard, like my leftover turkey lunch.  My self-image he wants to work on non-stop, something I am feeling now that I might not in a split second, at the mercy of a sideway glance of some stranger (especially the one in the mirror), via who-knows-what natural mechanism the scientists are saying about such life vicissitude.

Of course God wants/needs to address the big issues, the real issues that are holding us back: our aging, dying, or simply put, looking increasingly like shit until we literally become manure for the betterment of future ungrateful generations.

Wouldn't it be nice if there really is a God?  The best of it is we will virtually have no need for him!  We don't need to struggle to relate to him, listen or speak to him, just as there is no trouble relating to anything or anyone at all, universal unification achieved, every perfect stranger coming together to add to a growing lump of strange perfection!

Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

Imagine all the people

Living life in peace

Yeah, I can see that strange vision, Lennon, and it smells so too.  With God out of the picture, there is only the fume of engine burning, our hearts in overdrive, fueled by nothing but our pure desire for everyone and everything's good, perfectly willing, eternally able, oh, bless our pure hearts!

By the way you are puking I hereby conclude I've proven sufficiently this morning that there is no God.  Let's work on this again tomorrow.

Yours, Alex