To the Calvinists, Who, Like Gnostics, Think that God is Evil

Unde Malum

Where does evil come from?

It comes

from man

always from man

only from man - Tadeusz Rozewicz



Alas, dear Tadeusz,

good nature and wicked man

are romantic inventions

you show us this way

the depth of your optimism

so let man exterminate

his own species

the innocent sunrise will illuminate

a liberated flora and fauna

where oak forests reclaim

the postindustrial wasteland

and the blood of a deer

torn asunder by a pack of wolves

is not seen by anyone

a hawk falls upon a hare

without witness

evil disappears from the world

and consciousness with it

Of course, dear Tadeusz,

evil (and good) comes from man.


Czeslaw Milosz

Man is evil and depraved; therefore, God must be, too.