{"id":1837,"date":"2015-08-17T12:31:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T17:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2015-08-17T12:34:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T17:34:32","slug":"poem-gods-perish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/poem-gods-perish\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: God’s Perish"},"content":{"rendered":"

I under stood<\/strong>
\nGod’s might<\/strong>
\nAnd might not<\/strong>
\nAnd in awe probability<\/strong>
\nNew<\/strong>
\nThat I<\/strong>
\nWill only<\/strong>
\nFooly see<\/strong>
\nPhase to phase<\/strong>
\nUntil awe of creation<\/strong>
\nCome prized my parish<\/strong><\/p>\n

This poem is about dying to see the face of God.\u00a0 This takes two forms: dying when unable to see the face of God and dying if a mere mortal human were to see the face of God.\u00a0 The first form is the traditional form preached about and at others to point out their deficiencies and need for God.\u00a0 I find this form fraught with peril as pedantic and fixated on the lack of God’s presence, the very thing it seeks to dispel!\u00a0 As if God could successfully hide; fortunately, on this account, God is a total loser.\u00a0 God bursts forth from creation, if not well reflected in humans, then from nature.\u00a0 Still, God is a total<\/em> loser because God cannot reveal God’s full face to humans without literally blowing out our mind and being as humans.\u00a0 There is a protective veil necessary to preserve and maintain human existence.\u00a0 I am far more intrigued with this second form of dying to see the face of God, the Oneness of awe, worthy of my worship.\u00a0 My deep faith is roughly matched with deep skepticism for authority.\u00a0 I want peace and reconciliation in this matter — perhaps even to the point of my matter exploding.<\/p>\n

The Judaeo-Christian tradition of dying if one were to see the face of God originates in Exodus 12-23, when Moses is on Mount Sinai receiving the ten commandments from “I am,” the name God chose to reveal to Moses.\u00a0 This is how the conversation is retold (NIV translation):<\/p>\n

Moses said to the Lord, \u201cYou have been telling me, \u2018Lead these people,\u2019 but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, \u2018I know you by name and you have found favor with me.\u2019\u00a0 If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The Lord replied, \u201cMy Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Then Moses said to him, \u201cIf your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here. How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

And the Lord said to Moses, \u201cI will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know you by name.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Then Moses said, \u201cNow show me your glory.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

And the Lord said, \u201cI will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. But,\u201d he said, \u201cyou cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Then the Lord said, \u201cThere is a place near me where you may stand on a rock. When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by. Then I will remove my hand and you will see my back; but my face must not be seen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In a conversation with one of my former pastors related to seeing the backside of God, I noted that this made perfect sense, that is, a carpenter son would have a plumber for a father.\u00a0 His irrepressible grin and laugh reflected the joy that is the infallible presence of God.<\/p>\n

For as much as God does, God may seem to do little to nail down God’s intentions at the crossroads of our lives — humans seem much more intent on that!\u00a0 In surpassing logic, God proffers a taught a logical lessen: “I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”\u00a0 <\/em>Grate! So God expects me to lead my life based on mercy and compassion coming out literally from God knows where?!\u00a0 Of course, there is also that whole ten commandments thing, written in stone no less!\u00a0 In the coarse of life, the Jews expanded this to 613 laws<\/a>, establishing a firm foundation for eternal arguments.\u00a0 My whole point is this: it is never enough.\u00a0 As my one-line poem matriculates: I often find myself stuck in that awkward time between birth and death<\/a>.\u00a0 This built in yearning to understand God and God’s creation drives both spiritual enterprises and scientific endeavors.\u00a0 Learning to live into this fundamental yearning, whether experienced as the mystical union with God or a unified scientific understanding, comprises much of wisdom: Until awe of creation \/ Come prized my parish.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Awe of this wrests in the shadow of an unwholly dissatisfaction.\u00a0 I am deeply intrigued by the profound dissatisfaction with spiritual enterprises, most commonly cited as religion, that live in this shadow.\u00a0 Ironically, in such a critique of religion, this perfectionism and idealism to which religion falls woefully short is precisely that which under-girds religion: the quest for a coherent whole which can bring with it the peace of heart and mind.\u00a0 This common quest is shattered by fundamentalism, weather buy religious legalists or militant atheists.\u00a0 I view such fundamentalism as the grate divide in life, not simply the speak easy surrounding theism.<\/p>\n

I am fascinated by the contention often put forward by atheists, that God is a projection of human minds.\u00a0 There is much truth in this.\u00a0 Psychologically speaking, projection is superimposing the ego’s shadow, or incomplete understanding, onto that outside the ego, thereby purporting or inferring a distorted truth.\u00a0 \"We<\/a>More simply put: “We don’t see the world as it is, we see the world as we are.”\u00a0 Of course, this is neither proof nor reproof in the master debate over theism.\u00a0 This is true whether God’s perish or God’s parish.\u00a0 Nonetheless, projection is a powerful force and critical diagnosis each of us should make to move toward a more robust and healthy relationship with reality.\u00a0 The diagnosis of projection is a necessary but not sufficient condition, the hallmark of never-ending scientific discovery.<\/p>\n

The deeper quest in is how do we best move through inevitable projection and, even more boldly, firmly center our self (ego) in a ground of being that will most reliably guide us to an expanding humanity and more accurate under standing of the deepest realities.\u00a0 I contend that the spiritual master Jesus best articulated this in the spiritual practice and commandment (a should) by instructing us to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us.\u00a0 \"The<\/a>I am unaware of any more powerful and reliable guide to an expanding humanity and more accurate under standing of the deepest realities, whether from a religious or an atheistic perspective.\u00a0 I cite my own experience and the experience of millions of others in testing out this hypothesis with scientific rigor and skin in the game much greater than most of the most articulate purveyors of scientific discovery.\u00a0 Most simply put, if you want to put the God hypothesis to the test and dare experience a glimpse of the awe mighty, this may very well be the closest we can get:\u00a0 “I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”\u00a0 <\/em>This existential treat ease rests on authority emanating from scientific rigor applied to our whole life and God deeply roots for us to experience this phase to phase in hour life.\u00a0 In the face of a whirled of hurt, may your life reflect the mercy and compassion that comes from God knows wear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I under stood God’s might And might not And in awe probability New That I Will only Fooly see Phase to phase Until awe of creation Come prized my parish This poem is about dying to see the face of … Continue reading →<\/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":[32,57,9,15,1],"tags":[546,355,434,294,25,339,574,385,104,411,428,432,474,65,431,305,499,562,24,79,157,471,359,475,273,596,457,438,444,13,379,494,569,776,354,658,94,110,425,616,601,498,83,31,321,718,30,470,529,421,389,383],"class_list":["post-1837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-top-pun","category-peace","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","category-uncategorized","tag-argument","tag-atheist","tag-authority","tag-awe","tag-christian","tag-compassion","tag-creation","tag-death","tag-enemies","tag-existential","tag-experience","tag-faith","tag-fundamentalism","tag-god","tag-heart","tag-humanity","tag-idealism","tag-ironic","tag-jesus","tag-joy","tag-law","tag-learning","tag-life","tag-logic","tag-love","tag-mercy","tag-militant","tag-mind","tag-mystic","tag-mystical","tag-nature","tag-passion","tag-pastor","tag-perfectionism","tag-perspective","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-power","tag-probability","tag-projection","tag-reality","tag-reconciliation","tag-religion","tag-religious","tag-skepticism","tag-skin-in-the-game","tag-spiritual","tag-success","tag-time","tag-truth","tag-wisdom","tag-worship"],"yoast_head":"\nPOEM: God's Perish | About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized | Top Pun's Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! %<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"POEM: God's Perish, About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized, Argument, Atheist, Authority, Awe, Christian, Compassion, Creation, Death, Enemies, Existential, Experience, Faith, Fundamentalism, God, Heart, Humanity, Idealism, Ironic, Jesus, Joy, Law, Learning, Life, Logic, Love, Mercy, Militant, Mind, Mystic, Mystical, Nature, Passion, Pastor, Perfectionism, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Probability, Projection, Reality, Reconciliation, Religion, Religious, Skepticism, skin in the game, Spiritual, Success, Time, Truth, Wisdom, Worship Top Pun's Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! %\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/poem-gods-perish\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"7 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/17\\\/poem-gods-perish\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/17\\\/poem-gods-perish\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"POEM: God’s Perish\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-08-17T17:31:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-08-17T17:34:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/17\\\/poem-gods-perish\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":1327,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/23524eae4bc27be85d1cdc01bc6d380e\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/17\\\/poem-gods-perish\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/Religious-Spiritual\\\/We-don-t-see-things-as-they-are-we-see-them-as-we-are-Anais-Nin-quote.gif\",\"keywords\":[\"Argument\",\"Atheist\",\"Authority\",\"Awe\",\"Christian\",\"Compassion\",\"Creation\",\"Death\",\"Enemies\",\"Existential\",\"Experience\",\"Faith\",\"Fundamentalism\",\"God\",\"Heart\",\"Humanity\",\"Idealism\",\"Ironic\",\"Jesus\",\"Joy\",\"Law\",\"Learning\",\"Life\",\"Logic\",\"Love\",\"Mercy\",\"Militant\",\"Mind\",\"Mystic\",\"Mystical\",\"Nature\",\"Passion\",\"Pastor\",\"Perfectionism\",\"Perspective\",\"Poems\",\"Poetry\",\"Power\",\"Probability\",\"Projection\",\"Reality\",\"Reconciliation\",\"Religion\",\"Religious\",\"Skepticism\",\"skin in the game\",\"Spiritual\",\"Success\",\"Time\",\"Truth\",\"Wisdom\",\"Worship\"],\"articleSection\":[\"About Top Pun\",\"Peace\",\"Poems\",\"Political and Philosophical Musings\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/17\\\/poem-gods-perish\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/17\\\/poem-gods-perish\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/17\\\/poem-gods-perish\\\/\",\"name\":\"POEM: God's Perish | About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized | Top Pun's Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! %\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/17\\\/poem-gods-perish\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/17\\\/poem-gods-perish\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/Religious-Spiritual\\\/We-don-t-see-things-as-they-are-we-see-them-as-we-are-Anais-Nin-quote.gif\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-08-17T17:31:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-08-17T17:34:32+00:00\",\"description\":\"POEM: God's Perish, About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized, Argument, Atheist, Authority, Awe, Christian, Compassion, Creation, Death, Enemies, Existential, Experience, Faith, Fundamentalism, God, Heart, Humanity, Idealism, Ironic, Jesus, Joy, Law, Learning, Life, Logic, Love, Mercy, Militant, Mind, Mystic, Mystical, Nature, Passion, Pastor, Perfectionism, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Probability, Projection, Reality, Reconciliation, Religion, Religious, Skepticism, skin in the game, Spiritual, Success, Time, Truth, Wisdom, Worship Top Pun's Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! %\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/17\\\/poem-gods-perish\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/17\\\/poem-gods-perish\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/17\\\/poem-gods-perish\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/Religious-Spiritual\\\/We-don-t-see-things-as-they-are-we-see-them-as-we-are-Anais-Nin-quote.gif\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/Religious-Spiritual\\\/We-don-t-see-things-as-they-are-we-see-them-as-we-are-Anais-Nin-quote.gif\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/17\\\/poem-gods-perish\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Blog HOME\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"About Top Pun\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/category\\\/about-top-pun\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"POEM: God’s Perish\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"Top Pun's Poetry, Funny Political Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show!\",\"description\":\"Top Pun's Pun-filled Stuff, Satire, and Public Health Science\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/23524eae4bc27be85d1cdc01bc6d380e\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/toppun.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/23524eae4bc27be85d1cdc01bc6d380e\",\"name\":\"Top Pun\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f78057fc29c98405f1474e223d51149b962df4af36cea20bf4ccbb189f621bb7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f78057fc29c98405f1474e223d51149b962df4af36cea20bf4ccbb189f621bb7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f78057fc29c98405f1474e223d51149b962df4af36cea20bf4ccbb189f621bb7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Top Pun\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f78057fc29c98405f1474e223d51149b962df4af36cea20bf4ccbb189f621bb7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/TopPun.com\\\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"POEM: God's Perish | About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized | Top Pun's Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! %","description":"POEM: God's Perish, About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized, Argument, Atheist, Authority, Awe, Christian, Compassion, Creation, Death, Enemies, Existential, Experience, Faith, Fundamentalism, God, Heart, Humanity, Idealism, Ironic, Jesus, Joy, Law, Learning, Life, Logic, Love, Mercy, Militant, Mind, Mystic, Mystical, Nature, Passion, Pastor, Perfectionism, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Probability, Projection, Reality, Reconciliation, Religion, Religious, Skepticism, skin in the game, Spiritual, Success, Time, Truth, Wisdom, Worship Top Pun's Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! %","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/poem-gods-perish\/","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"","Est. reading time":"7 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/poem-gods-perish\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/poem-gods-perish\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"POEM: God’s Perish","datePublished":"2015-08-17T17:31:01+00:00","dateModified":"2015-08-17T17:34:32+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/poem-gods-perish\/"},"wordCount":1327,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/23524eae4bc27be85d1cdc01bc6d380e"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/poem-gods-perish\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Religious-Spiritual\/We-don-t-see-things-as-they-are-we-see-them-as-we-are-Anais-Nin-quote.gif","keywords":["Argument","Atheist","Authority","Awe","Christian","Compassion","Creation","Death","Enemies","Existential","Experience","Faith","Fundamentalism","God","Heart","Humanity","Idealism","Ironic","Jesus","Joy","Law","Learning","Life","Logic","Love","Mercy","Militant","Mind","Mystic","Mystical","Nature","Passion","Pastor","Perfectionism","Perspective","Poems","Poetry","Power","Probability","Projection","Reality","Reconciliation","Religion","Religious","Skepticism","skin in the game","Spiritual","Success","Time","Truth","Wisdom","Worship"],"articleSection":["About Top Pun","Peace","Poems","Political and Philosophical Musings"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/poem-gods-perish\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/poem-gods-perish\/","url":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/poem-gods-perish\/","name":"POEM: God's Perish | About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized | Top Pun's Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! %","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/poem-gods-perish\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/poem-gods-perish\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Religious-Spiritual\/We-don-t-see-things-as-they-are-we-see-them-as-we-are-Anais-Nin-quote.gif","datePublished":"2015-08-17T17:31:01+00:00","dateModified":"2015-08-17T17:34:32+00:00","description":"POEM: God's Perish, About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized, Argument, Atheist, Authority, Awe, Christian, Compassion, Creation, Death, Enemies, Existential, Experience, Faith, Fundamentalism, God, Heart, Humanity, Idealism, Ironic, Jesus, Joy, Law, Learning, Life, Logic, Love, Mercy, Militant, Mind, Mystic, Mystical, Nature, Passion, Pastor, Perfectionism, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Probability, Projection, Reality, Reconciliation, Religion, Religious, Skepticism, skin in the game, Spiritual, Success, Time, Truth, Wisdom, Worship Top Pun's Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! %","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/poem-gods-perish\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/poem-gods-perish\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/poem-gods-perish\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Religious-Spiritual\/We-don-t-see-things-as-they-are-we-see-them-as-we-are-Anais-Nin-quote.gif","contentUrl":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Religious-Spiritual\/We-don-t-see-things-as-they-are-we-see-them-as-we-are-Anais-Nin-quote.gif"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/poem-gods-perish\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Blog HOME","item":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"About Top Pun","item":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/category\/about-top-pun\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"POEM: God’s Perish"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/","name":"Top Pun's Poetry, Funny Political Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show!","description":"Top Pun's Pun-filled Stuff, Satire, and Public Health Science","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/23524eae4bc27be85d1cdc01bc6d380e"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/23524eae4bc27be85d1cdc01bc6d380e","name":"Top Pun","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f78057fc29c98405f1474e223d51149b962df4af36cea20bf4ccbb189f621bb7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f78057fc29c98405f1474e223d51149b962df4af36cea20bf4ccbb189f621bb7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f78057fc29c98405f1474e223d51149b962df4af36cea20bf4ccbb189f621bb7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Top Pun"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f78057fc29c98405f1474e223d51149b962df4af36cea20bf4ccbb189f621bb7?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/TopPun.com\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":""}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1842,"href":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}