when i was a teenager
i was nothing like i am now
no seeking in me
just living life
as it came my way
no questioning the
purpose of it
no intellectual
speculations
but i did seem to have
some logic in me
once a christian kid
befriended me
but with an ulterior
motive
his friendship was
about proselytizing
to win my soul
for his religion
he said if you
do not follow jesus
you go to hell
i said what if natives
living on an island
never saw a missionary
or heard about jesus
would god send them
to hell because of
their ignorance of
jesus
it made no sense to me
now i believe that
the absolute in it’s
infinite mercy
would manifest in
the minds of those
natives in another way
for example
if those natives believed
a mountain was god
i believe the absolute
in its infinite mercy
would manifest through
that mountain to the natives
their mystics would have
confirming visions
and the natives would
become firm believers
furthermore i believe that
the ancient gods were
conduits to the divine
and that the absolute
honored that
bob boyd