Dear God,

Please take this letter personally as it’s about time you bore the responsibility of the mess down here on your planet earth and as a father seriously. First off I would like you to explain why the mistakes made by two individuals, at least one of whom was created in your image by the way, should be reason enough to blame and punish the entire human race. Even the most extreme racist sees the good in some people but it seems you tar everyone with the same brush, how open minded and forgiving of you!

Now I do get the whole free will thing but seriously, my children are allowed to exercise their free will but I still don’t let them cross a busy street without them holding my hand or allow them to play with matches, knives, broken glass or any other object that might cause them or others injury. As any responsible parent knows children need guidance and since we are all meant to be gods children a little help would go a long way to bringing peace to this world which you supposedly created. By the way I don’t mean an instruction book as that didn’t work out too well last time and you know how bad us men are at reading them. I thought more a lecture tour and perhaps a weekly informational film posted on your own youtube channel might be more effective.

Its also appears to me that you are one of the laziest and least responsible parents around with the lame excuse of free will as your main argument for ignoring the problems of your children. I have know drunks with better excuses and parenting skills than that. I can just see that as being used in court, ’sorry your honor but the reason my child wandered into traffic and was mowed down by a bus was because I was letting her exercise her free will, but don’t worry it’s all part of my big plan.’’

This brings me to my next point. Being the skeptic I am it seems the evidence points towards you either not being the all-powerful entity you are reported to be or your simply quite mean which makes me worry about what your big plan might be. I think the Tsunami that wiped out hundreds of thousands of people around the pacific rim is evidence enough, but on a more regular basis there are the many droughts, floods, famines, earthquakes, tornadoes and occasional bolt of lightning which are either your doing or a fault in the world you designed, but then again it would have been a bit of a rushed job to complete it in seven days so a few errors here and there are perhaps understandable. But please stop this or make some necessary repairs so we can get on with living our lives without the added worry of a bored or uninterested god throwing extra crap into the mix. Its hard enough trying to pay my bills and feed my family without the added worry of being struck down by a bolt of lightning due to some faulty wiring or buried in the rubble of a building collapsed during one of your earthquakes.

So in the vain hope that you exist, especially as there is no evidence to support your existence, in fact there is more to support the existence of Santa Claus or the tooth fairy than you as at least presents appear under my Christmas tree each year or money under my pillow when I lost a tooth as a child. Anyhow, if in some unimaginable way that you are here there and everywhere all at once it’s about time you stepped up as a father and did the right thing and paid some attention, and enough of the pitiful excuses that it’s all part of some big plan. Well if that is the case why not share that big plan with us instead of leaving everyone guessing and hiding behind the age old excuse of you have to have faith. Even when my kids simply have to trust my judgment I don’t just tell them, ‘because I say so,’ I explain to them why.

Stop treating us like some kind of science project that you started then lost interest in, like some petulant child, when the result weren’t what you hoped for and either lend a hand or get out of the way. As most of the world’s problems seem to be caused by you it might be an idea to announce your retirement so people will stop arguing over what you want from them, and how to please you, and we can all get on with living instead of wasting time arguing over what amounts to little more than an absent father figure.

If I were to treat my kids or even a dog the same way as you seem to treat the people of this world then social services would soon be on my case and hunting me down for abandoning my responsibilities and mistreatment of my children.

Its time you started sorting out the mess here, and no more excuses, after all it’s your creation so man up and start taking responsibility before your children do themselves some serious harm.

Best,

1oneworld

PS What’s your view on the whole covered women thing?