Critical analysis from Jewish perspective

Introduction

In this paper I will critically analyze the following few lines from Jewish perspective in which lines people are trying to disown God in them. Such as there is a popular quote these days on buses in UK which says, “There is probably no God, now stop worrying and enjoy your life". And another famous poem from Walt Whitman that says as follow:

“I think I could turn and live with animals,

They're so placid and self-contained,

I stand and look at them long and long.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition,

They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,

They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,

Not one is dissatisfied,

Not one is demented with the mania of owning things,

Not one kneels to another,

Nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,

Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth”. (http://ffrf.org)

Analysis

Walt Whitman actually tries to escape from the religious duties and feels better to become an animal instead of being human. I think it is too ironic to think that way because we are human and it is insulting to wish to stay with animals just because of a few duties which we have to fulfill. God never asks us to stay for so long for his own pleasure. He never likes the idea of giving trouble to his creature because he is the creator, he has created us and the whole world therefore he knows: how strong we are and how much we can tolerate. Everything he has created functions according to its nature so he has assigned duties according to the nature of human. Walt Whitman himself knows that there is a God poet's inner feelings make him feel the presence of God but I would rather ...