Good thing God and the Devil don’t have to deal with silly stuff as poor

us. Traffic congestion…taxes…rude people here there everywhere…

dark funerals…unwritten wills…ungrateful relatives…drunk executors…

corrupt attorneys…corrupt politicians…etc., etc., etc., etc.

Those two dwell, it would be; in amazing places. One near the sun the

other near Pluto. Or somewhere out there. They keep in touch. Oh, yes

they love gossip as much as we do. Remember those lousy Greek gods?

Sweet Heavens! Always arguing and fighting among themselves.

Zeus being unfaithful all the time…so was everyone else. They got so

bored at times…remember the siege of Troy…ten long years of fighting…

and they arguing and arguing whom would favor Hector…whom would

favor Achilles.

But that was quite recently…a couple of thousand years ago…take some

add some. Anyway, our ever present God and Devil are as old as time.

It is us. Yes, us who have made up so much stuff about them! Cain

killed Abel..the Devil made him do it. The pope speaks to Jesus every

morning…it’s God’s will. Cain is still killing others…the Devil, who else.

One interesting thing…I don’t see the pope doing something for the

suffering of so much people all over the world! Well, I wish someone

would be so kind as to explain that to me. Because I can’t fathom why

he hasn’t. The Devil is portrayed as the ugliest thing in our minds.

The pope, the one who’s boss is God as clean and pure and chaste.

In white fine clothes, expensive Italian shoes…a huge golden cross in

his ample chest…who loves churrascos and good wine. Who is followed

by about a hundred so called Cardinals…with ample bellies…rosy

cheeks…very well fed as well…and that’s it. They sleep and live and

feed in abundance. All of them appear to practice the sin of gluttony.

And I wouldn’t want to imagine about how they spend their personal

time.

But, forgive me. I’m digressing. I started my story talking about the two

most potent symbols of good and bad in the universe and ended up

talking about simple good people and bad people.

I guess am still talking about the same.

Good night.

Ernesto Onofre