{"id":1130,"date":"2013-10-13T04:35:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T09:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2013-10-12T11:55:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T16:55:55","slug":"poem-good-news-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/13\/poem-good-news-bad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Good News, Bad News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I have good news and bad news<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">The bad news:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">God called and he said he wants his religion back<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">The good news:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">He didn&#8217;t call collect<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The gap between the actual practice of religion and the sacred principles held dear by every major faith present in the world requires grace to be reconciled.\u00a0 The relatively popular and all-too-common view that God is punishing is perhaps the most fundamental misconception in religion.\u00a0 God is love.\u00a0 Love does not seek to punish.\u00a0 If you want to punish people, please recognize that that impulse is not in alignment with God&#8217;s will.\u00a0 The desire to punish others is a misguided human impulse.\u00a0 Attributing your own desire to hurt others &#8212; or, conveniently, have another punish them for you &#8212; only adds insult to injury.\u00a0 The belief in hell is the perfection of projecting human shortcomings onto God.\u00a0 There is plenty of hell to go around, created by humans on earth.\u00a0 Wanting to see further misery added to this is simply sadistic.\u00a0 The gospel, literally &#8220;good news,&#8221; is that when God calls it won&#8217;t be as a debt collector, but rather as a lover seeking to woo you into a deeper relationship.\u00a0 Now that&#8217;s a call I can answer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have good news and bad news The bad news: God called and he said he wants his religion back The good news: He didn&#8217;t call collect The gap between the actual practice of religion and the sacred principles held &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/13\/poem-good-news-bad-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,9,15],"tags":[416,432,65,263,76,273,658,94,491,83,128,53],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-debt","tag-faith","tag-god","tag-grace","tag-hell","tag-love","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-present","tag-religion","tag-sacred","tag-short-poems"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POEM: Good News, Bad News | News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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