Amy Winehouse, Free At Last

Amy Winehouse  was a Sephardic Jew from a conservative religious background, but like many young people she broke free of the tales and myths of her parents and sought meaning in her own way. 

Like most of us she had seen too much suffering in this life to believe that any of this is guided by a supreme being.

Why did someone as sweet and gentle and gifted as Amy Winehouse die at 27, and a brutal atheist like the German Fuher live to a ripe old age?

Day after day, thousands of innocent people die horribly, through accidents or murder or genocide or whatever.

This has been going on for thousands of years, untold misery, anguish, pain and despair, crippling diseases, babies torn from their mothers arms.

I don’t know how one can see all this misery and conclude that an intelligent being capable of feelings of compassion is somehow in charge.

I don’t know, for example, why Bush killed so many thousands of babies in Iraq, or why loonies on the right don’t question these murders but will protest women being given information on birth control.

They attack the left, but remain curiously silent about right wing Jihad, such as the brutal killings in Norway or the cowardly murders of physicians in the U.S.

Bush has lived a pretty debauched life, even according to Christian standards.  Drugs, alcohol, lying and murder, yet he has enjoyed a long life consisting of luxury, and has never had to work a day in his life.     I see innocent children suffering every day, certainly they have purer hearts than Bush or those idolized by the wing nuts.

They are deprived, hungry, and lonely, and will in all likelihood continue to suffer through most of their lives, while others, again, folks who have never wanted for anything, nor have their parents, or anyone they have ever known, thrive.

Will the poor be rewarded with a Disneyland afterlife?

No.

Nor will the rich.

But they will finally be equal.