Unasnswered Questions

Plays are not my forte, but this one just poured out of me. -Not trying to start anything people, just hoping some people laugh.

Unanswered Questions

 

Your typical college party, a frat house full of drunken boys and girls; the music is blasting even though it is three am. Right under the living room is the garage, the only true quiet place in the house where John, Pete, Mary and Kevin can be found in the midst of a philosophical debate. One that probably got started by the pot they where smoking.

John is sitting on the left arm of the old couch which seats in the center of the garage. Behind the couch is the stairs that lead to the nightlife. Mary is seated in the center of the couch, to John’s right and Pete’s left. Pete is seating on the right hand of the couch. Lastly Kevin is seated on the floor legs bent inward and drunk off his mind.

John: If God’s all you know…..”God like”, why doesn’t he stop wars or poverty or world hunger?

Pete: Maybe he acts upon a higher principle, ever think of that? (While he takes another smoke of his joint)

Kevin: Who um- who knows what...God thinks? No oneee.

Mary: I know what he thinks.

Pete: You do?

Mary: Yep I do.

John: And how do you know for sure what God thinks?

Mary: Because it is written on the bible.

John: Oh come on!

Peter: I must agree with him, the bible’s bullshit!

Mary: Guys I’m not saying everything the bible says is true but, it is based on Jesus’ teachings.

Kevin: Yeah! Jesus rocks!

Pete: He sure does. (Sarcastically)

Mary: Don’t allow him (Kevin) to undermine my credibility; the New Testament is true to God’s will.

John: Mary it has been proven, it is now a historical fact that the bible was written by man-most of whom did not know Jesus personally. So how can you say it is based on Jess’s teachings?

Mary: His disciples wrote about his teachings and so the scholars wrote about it in the bible.

Pete: Still if that is true. Then why did Christians continue to do things that I am sure Jesus did not teach? You know like burning people alive.

Kevin: That’s not um, that’s not cool.

Pete: No s**t it’s not cool and that’s not even in this century!

Mary: Guys stop getting stuff off Kevin, he’s drunk ok? Doesn’t know what he’s saying. Maybe you guys are too high(-interrupted-)

Kevin: Oh I know what I’m saying. The question is what are you on?

Mary: Ohh! (Hippocratic embarrassment.) I’ll have you know that even high I know God loves me.

Pete: Or maybe you have to be high to believe that. (Smirk)

John: So God loves you and everyone else too right?

Mary: Yes.

John: So he loves the rapist, murderers, and psychopaths? Also loves the poor who die of hunger and disease every day and the rich who steal from them?

Mary: According to the bible.

John: But, he lets criminals roam the earth and people die of starvation what the hell is that?

Mary: That’s Free will!

Kevin: Where are the beers? (Whispered to Pete.)

Pete: No more beers man. (Whisper.)

John: Free will?!

Mary: Yes that is our gift from God!

John: What bullshit! Every good thing is God and every bad thing is us and our “free will”?

Mary: No...(Annoyed)

John: look I know a guy whose parents were killed in a car accident when he was five, now they were “God-fearing” good people, it was dark and some drunken a*****e rammed them from behind. Is that God’s way of showing his love to my friend?

Mary: Umm. (Doubt)

Pete: Kevin I already told you there aren’t any more beers!

Kevin: What kind of party is this?

Door opens on the top of the stairs as someone shouts

-“New keg!”

Pete: Woo!

Kevin: Mine!

John: Well Mary, get ready to get drunk!

Mary: After you of course, no on one can out drink me! It’s a gift from God!

John: Yeah (Laughs as he walks up the stairs with Mary who opens the door)

John: Kevin, get your head out of the fish tank! (shouts into room)

Kevin: I’m thirsty!