Friday, September 29, 2017

No. CLXVII: Gimme That (VERY) Ol' Time Religion

With religion as with money, bad drives out the good.

I put to you,
Muslim, Christian and Jew,
YOU have got it all wrong.
The chaos we see
could never be
created by ONE, however headstrong.

It was not creation,
but perturbation
that set the universe ticking.
Believe what you will,
in the end, still,
we're all of us in for a licking.

You say, “Give it a rest,
you atheist-, Hindu- or Buddha-pest.
What we believe is THE TRUTH.”
Well that may be
but what you show me
is hardly what I would call proof.

More self-hypnosis.
(Dare I say psychosis?)
Illusion raised to delusion.
Your attempt (in vain)
to avoid the pain
of living amidst the confusion.

What are the odds
the multiple gods
our ancestors so long agreed on
are not as true
as the ONE (for Christians plus two)
you monotheists insist on?

UPDATED: September 29, 2017, 6:26 p.m. EDT. Earlier version misspelled perturbation.

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