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Reverse Creation: Bernard Backman

This document is a poem titled "Reverse Creation" that describes humanity's destruction of Earth. In three sentences, it summarizes: Humanity destroyed the beauty of Earth and liked the darkness they created. They divided themselves and sought control through government, weapons, and killing methods. Finally, humanity created God in their own image until fire consumed the Earth, leaving silence and God weeping over the smoldering ruins of what was done.

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Reverse Creation: Bernard Backman

This document is a poem titled "Reverse Creation" that describes humanity's destruction of Earth. In three sentences, it summarizes: Humanity destroyed the beauty of Earth and liked the darkness they created. They divided themselves and sought control through government, weapons, and killing methods. Finally, humanity created God in their own image until fire consumed the Earth, leaving silence and God weeping over the smoldering ruins of what was done.

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REVERSE CREATION

Bernard Backman

(Speech Choir Piece)

In the end, we destroyed the heaven that was called Earth. And

The Earth had been beautiful until our spirit moved over it and destroyed all things. And
we said...Let there be darkness... and there was darkness. And we liked the darkness; so we
called the darkness, Security And we divided ourselves into races and religions and classes of
society. And there was no morning and no evening on the seventh day before the end.

And we said…
Let there be a strong government to control us in our darkness. Let there be armies to
control our bodies so that we may learn to kill one another neatly and efficiently in our
darkness. And there was no evening and no morning on the sixth day before the end.

And we said…
Let there be rockets and bombs to kill faster and easier; let there be gas chambers and
furnaces to be more thorough. And there was no evening and no morning on the fifth day
before the end.

And we said…
Let there be drugs and other forms of escape, for there is this constant annoyance —
Reality — which is disturbing our comfort. And there was no evening and no morning on the

And we said..
Let there be divisions among the nations, so that we may know who is our common
enemy. And there was no evening and no morning on the third day before the end.

And finally we said...


Let us create God in our image. Let some other God compete with us. Let us say that
God thinks as we think, hates as we hate, and kills as we kill. And there was no morning and no
evening on the second day before the end.
On the last day, there was a great noise on the face of the Earth. Fire consumed the
beautiful globe, and there was silence. The blackened Earth now rested to worship the one true
God, and God saw all that we had done, and in the silence over the smoldering ruins
God wept.

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