My Response

 

A Parody of the Doxology

Blame God from whom all cyclones blow,

Blame him, all creatures here below,

Blame Him, who knocks down church and steeple,

Who sends the floods and drowns the people.

Anonymous

I ponder on this writer’s worldview

But not for long

For whatever his origins’ position is

This view is terribly wrong.

Let me write out the doxology

So that we all can compare

The truth about the Almighty God

And the nonsense that men often air.

 Praise God from whom all blessings flow,

Praise Him, all creatures here below,

Praise Him above the heavenly hosts,

Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

What a departure this parody is!

What a severe distortion of truth!

Clearly this writer is making claims

For which he has no proof.

He could be a creationist

Or an evolutionist, he might be,

Be it one or the other,

There is much he cannot see.

He may have been joking

Like some of us tend to do,

But somethings you don’t joke about

Is my considered view.

People mocked the donkey

From time immemorial;

As a result, the following was written:

It is rather satirical.

  

The donkey does the talking,

Aware of how he is perceived,

These first two verses make the point

He hopes we human will receive.

When fishes walk and forests flew

And figs grew upon thorns,

Some moment when the moon was blood

Then surely, I was born.

With monstrous head and sickening cry

And ears like errant wings,

The devil’s walking parody

On all four-footed things.

G. K. Chesterton

Just two verses I have written

To define this parody,

It speaks of a time there never was

As the origin for the donkey.

Treated with utter contempt

In this some find their humour,

And though the matter be serious,

For these it evokes laughter.

You might recall the fable of old

Written by the Greek author, Aesop,

When the village boys engaged in fun

But for the frogs, it certainly was not.

The frogs were having a swim

One day in a village pool,

Along came some village boys

And each became a fool.

They began to stone the frogs

And one by one they died,

But a wise old frog opened up his mouth

And the boys’ actions he decried. 

“What’s fun for you Is death to us,”

That wise old frog remarked,

A valuable lesson for those young boys

And a very good place to start.

Some blame God for all that’s wrong

But for any good man gets the praise,

Hence, this parody of the doxology,

No need to repeat what it says.

I must confess I would be afraid

To refer to God in such a way

But there are some who wouldn’t care less

Even if He should some of them slay.

God takes responsibility, I believe,

For all that He has created,

Especially human beings like you and me

Whose brains often seem cremated.

Like the writer of this parody

That may seem to be very clever,

To him it might have been humorous

But to God it brings no pleasure.

I will take one thing from his parody,

That is, he recognizes God,

The fact he blames Him for cyclones

Says there is a God, after all.

There’s hope, I believe, for such;

It’s the first step to being rewarded,

For one must believe that God exists

If life to him should be accorded.

So, I would say to my fellow writer

Now, take it to the logical step,

Disabuse your mind from this parody of justice

And thank Jesus for paying your debt.

Yes, God did curse the world

But on account of man’s deliberate sin,

But he also gave His only Son

Through whom we can come to Him.

He is our refuge in the cyclone

And our protector in the floods,

And in any circumstance that comes our way

God always demonstrates He is good.

Stewart Russell © March 2020