The Indifferent Parent

                             The Indifferent Parent

CPS is often called in to investigate an indifferent parent. Or maybe, to be fair, a parent who claims to love their child but places no boundaries on them, lets them stay up as late as they want, lets them skip school, keeps a dangerously unsanitary house, does drugs in front of the kids and allows or even commits sexual or domestic abuse on the children.

Our society does not like this behavior and labels it bad parenting. Yet, the majority of our society worships an indifferent parent. This parent lets his children get away with all sorts of behaviors and endangers his children’s lives with disease, famine, and war to name a few things, but threatens his children with eternal damnation year after year.

His followers claim to know the rules for gaining this parent’s favor yet always stray and then pray for forgiveness from the indifferent parent.

They pray for things like world peace, but more often than not pray for little things like a good grade in school, a job promotion or even a win at the Friday night football game.

This indifferent parent often does not answer these prayers, because he is an indifferent parent and the child makes excuses for him. “There must be a reason”, and if the parent does answer the prayer, what a good parent he is.

NO! The universe is indifferent to us. We created the parent, the god..God.. to appease our awareness of the smallness of our being, of our inevitable demise, of the true indifference of this universe.