A poem by Gary G Pelow, God is not dead because he never lived in the first place. There is a parasite, a worm, that, in certain parts of the continent of Africa infect the drinking water, usually mixed with raw sewage. This parasite will get its larva into a child who drinks water that is not fit for a dog to swim in let alone drink. The full grown worm, this parasite will actually work its way into a child’s eye, you can literally see the worms crawling around somebody’s eyes who go blind permanently at the age 1, 2 or 3. In 1979, I remember it well, the beginning. The beginning of people showing odd symptoms all at the same time. For whatever reason, or just by chance, the sick got sicker then died and no one knew why. At first the victims of this odd and deadly set of symptoms were mostly gay, white men. The symptoms, multiple infections from fungus on the tongue, the infection of the eyes with a CMV virus, separate from the already present but unkown virus of AIDS causing blindness. There were the sudden rash of appearance of rare cancers rarely ever scene by any doctor. AIDS defining malignancies. Cancer. Some nut job evangelical Christians in the United States leaped on this unknown set of maladies running to say as quickly as possible God, the Christian God, was punishing homosexuals. You had jackasses from “The Moral Majority” harping on this constantly to inflate their own arrogant egos like that of Jerry Falwell. To this fool HIV was a stepping stone for him to become more politically powerful, Reagan as president helped that along. Eventually they found it, THE Virus, HIV, The Cause of Aids. A virus that eventually started to appear outside of the white gay community. Children were getting infected with HIV before even being born, doomed to die after being born. I have seen tapeworms up close, they are nasty 20--30 feet long parasites in the intestines, children included. I was once infected by Scabies, a microscopic mite, with 8 legs and all that dug into my skin causing rashes to appear, the mites, the females, lay their eggs under you skin.. The new mite hatch and burrow through you. Wash. Rinse.Repeat. I hear you yelling at me about your god or gods, that bring these plagues, Jesus, Allah, Yaway, Jehovah, Santa Clause. I see no evidence of god or the supernatural, never in my 52 years of life. These things, these problems exist under YOUR GOD”S Authority, supposedly. I actually only see two logical possibilities with your gods. They exist and do nothing to end human suffering when they can do that according to you on your god. A god that can prevent those eye worms but doesn’t would be a psychopath of a god. Able to help and not doing so. The second possibility is your god exists, sees human suffering and evil, wants to stop it, but he can not, so he is not a god. That is a quote from someone more well known than me, I do not remember who said it first, not me, but is the truth, three choices, god is a psychopath, god is a powerless dolt or there is no god. AT ALL. NADA. NOTHING. ZERO.