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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No. LXXVIX: Weedend Edition ― On Guard!, er, GOD!, er GUARD! (Covfefe Explained)

from here to the Pleiades and even beyond
no evidence of deities has ever been spawned
(I know YOUR god is no amphibian,
would not be at home in the Caribbean
what you do's not voodoo
nor nonsensical hoodoo
you're no pagan savage
intent upon ravagement
but a believer on whom your god can count
as evidenced by your bank account)
the three (or four?) gods of monotheism
all hail from the area of the Mediterranean
those gods are "okay" I would not be so vocal
had their spheres of influence stayed rather more local
ever since they burst from their bubbles
the world's had nothing but problems and troubles

(did baby Ivanka say "covfefe"
mimicking her grandma* saying kerfuffle?)