You've made yourself a better God
Don't you see
Don't you see
You've made yourself a better God
At least it's plain to me
Your God is good, your God is kind
Your God won't condemn you for using your mind
Your God isn't threatened by words that I say
Your God, in you, doesn't walk away
You've made yourself a better God
Take a look
Take a look
You've made yourself a better God
Than the one that's in the book
Your God doesn't kill people that your God doesn't like
Your God doesn't ravage nations out of spite
Your God didn't make all the evil around you
Your God only holds to a love that is true
You've made yourself a better God
That's okay
That's okay
You've made yourself a better God
To get you through your night and day
I understand now why your God is so nice
Why your God doesn't have a heart made of ice
I wish the God you made was true
Because that God was made in the image of you
© Ruby Neumann
Poet's Note: Written February 21, 2024 at around 1:30 am. I hate writing poetry that I feel like I can't share with the ones who inspire it. I had a few Christians in mind when I wrote this. Part of me wishes I had access to some of the vitriol that other agnostics/atheists experience from fundamentalism. Then maybe I would be justified in feeling some disgust for Christianity as a whole. My problem is that most of the Christians around me are still nice. I think that is because of the "Better God". I am still disgusted at Christianity as a whole system. But the people... well... some of them... it's obvious that God has evolved along with them. They weren't made in the image of the Biblical God, like many of them believe. When "God" is made in the image of "you", he takes on the character traits of "you". If you are a nice person, how can your "God" be anything but nice.
To clear up so poetic prose... when I say that I wish "The Better God" was true... That is only if I had to choose between "The Better God" vs the "God of the Bible". I like the evolved one much better. I still think "God" is unnecessary as a whole... but poetically, I understand that most people still need some kind of "God". I just wish they could understand that the "God" they say is shining through them... is actually them shining. They have just made "God" in their own image.
