"god will have his justice in the end"

I saw someone say that online yesterday and it's been rolling around my head ever since. "god will have his justice in the end”. Well, that might be nice for you and him. It’s nice when your buddy gets a win, I get it. I’m gonna need something real though. Justice for everybody, not just god. As I understand it, there’s a whole book that talks about how he got plenty of justice. I think it’s our turn now. No more bullshit platitudes. Maybe it's "reddit atheist" of me to want real justice instead of Live Laugh Love slogans, but I don't care.

I need something that they'll feel. You know who I’m talking about (there's some e-mails you should read if you don't). They'd love for our worst punishment to be tut tutting and telling them "You'll see in the end that you've been naughty! Just wait till daddy gets home and puts you in time-out, you'll see!”. They’d love for us to let them die peacefully in their beds at an age many of their victims would never hope to reach. Speaking of, even I said the day Dick Cheney died that he had “finally gone to hell”. Just a quick way to disrespect a man who deserves more than I have time to give. But no, he’s not in hell. He died, surrounded by love, having gotten away with it entirely. There’s some leftover carbon they might bury or burn to ash, and the scrap metal that now remains of his heart might sell for something. But the man is simply gone, along with any chance of holding him accountable for the many deaths he’s responsible for. To use the modern slang, saying anyone is in hell is pure cope.

It’s not fair and so, yeah, it’s nice to imagine him on fire for eternity. I understand the appeal of the fantasy, but I want them to actually feel the gravity of what they've done while they're still alive, and if we can’t make them feel it with an emotional battering, maybe we can improvise with something heavier. Whatever it takes, I want real justice. I want real peace on real planet Earth for real people.

You can keep your brimstone and pitchforks if it helps you get through the day, but don't get complacent. If god's justice were enough to save us, would we be in this mess right now? And regardless, shouldn’t real life be so nice to live that no one should have to rely on faith that death will be much nicer? I think heaven should be real and available to everyone and we are more than capable of building it here ourselves.

I mean, why not — we've already managed to build a kind of hell!

Nicky Flowers - Remember: Don't get complacent. Focus on what's real. - 11/13/25 - (send any comments/questions to hello at nickyflowers dot com)