Meditations: God Loves Atheists

by Alan Altany

God loves atheists,
His unknowing images,
loving them to death
for rejecting ideas
of God so convoluted,
so completely cramped,
caved in upon themselves,
but believed by so many
believers that even God
is an atheist to such
pathetic presumptions
and withered, shrunken
concepts of what He is.
The atheism of God
being a gravitational
portal for atheists
to begin heading
really Godward and
a signaling call for
believers to finally
wake-up to their
random delusions
about God, the
lover of all those
on reality quests
at midnight
or high noon.

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Alan Altany is a partially retired, septuagenarian college professor of religious studies and theology. He has been a factory worker, swineherd on a farm, hotel clerk, lawn maintenance worker, high school teacher, small magazine poetry editor, director of religious education for churches, truck driver, novelist, among other things. In 2022 he published a book of poetry entitled A Beautiful Absurdity: Christian Poetry of the Sacred.