Alone Again, pour lyrics
for a beautiful song

40 years ago singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan achieved huge success in many parts of the world, including in Brazil, with the song Alone Again, whose melody is undoubtedly charming. Clicking this link, the reader can hear it and at the same time, see the lyrics in English and in Portuguese: http://www.vagalume.com.br

The lyrics does not, however, entitled to the beauty of music, by passing a negative idea concerning the hardships and vicissitudes that people often face in their passage through the reincarnation experience in the world in which we live.

Suicidal thoughts, doubts about God's goodness, demonstration of impotence in the face of life's difficulties and despair at the death of his mother, in brief, what it says the author of the song, which it shows how dominant philosophy and religion teach little about human existence and its higher purposes.

The fact is regrettable but it does not cause in fact, surprise at all.

After all, not the current pope managed to stifle his doubts about God when, years ago, soon as he took over the Church, he went to Auschwitz (Poland), for a visit to the former concentration camp of so fatal remembrance, where died more than one million people, mostly Jewish.

"Why, God, did you remain in silence? How could you tolerate all this?", These are the words of Benedict XVI said that location, behaving in face of a tragedy as they generally behave like people who ignore the laws of God and the purpose of our presence in the world.

Had the pope wavered in his faith?

The impact of papal doubts was immediate. In the Veja magazine, in which the pope's statement was reported on p. 106 of the edition of June 7th, 2006, several readers have spoken.

One said "that the God I seek is not the same as he knows." "My God, magnanimous and just, speaks to man through his laws, expressed in everything He created." According to the same reader, Benedict XVI seemed to ignore what Homer intuited 3,000 years ago, that the misfortunes plaguing mankind are the result of our own mistakes, faults and follies of which we ourselves commit.

Days later, Veja magazine transcribed a letter sent by Suzel Tunes, communication adviser of the Methodist Church, which, basing his ideas in the thinking of theologian English John Wesley, founder of the movement that gave rise to the above, said it was up to man to restore divine harmony through responsible and loving relationship with nature and his fellow man. Thus, the Wesleyan perspective, the tragedy of Auschwitz, "it was the man who was far from God in Auschwitz, and not otherwise." 

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In light of what we just have outlined, it does not cost us remember that, as the Earth a world destined to evidence and atonement, it's no wonder that so many tragedies and so much suffering occur, for what Jesus warned us, more than two thousand years, with stunning clarity:

• "Woe unto the world because of offenses, for it is necessary that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh!" (Matthew 18:7.)

• "Jesus said to him: Put in place your sword: for all they that take up the sword, die by the sword." (Matthew 26:52.)