Labi Siffre - Into The Light

Breaching the coast

On newly acquired legs

Would they have acted

Differently had they suspected

The sand would bloom blood fed

With superstition and willful ignorance

Claimed as sacred

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Waiting for a Song

A British atheist advocate

Of the republican form of government

To sing I have no national anthem

Of meritocracy, but a paean

To smoke and mirrors celebrity

God    royalty    vacancy

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Theologians

Gather to interpret what

The perfect God they invented meant because

The perfect God they invented cannot write so good

As to be without ambiguity understood

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Evolution, hurry up!

Certain they're pleasing
That for which no evidence exists

They kill children of all ages
In the name of that
For which no evidence exists

As an encore, demanding respect
For their belief in that
For which no evidence exists

They kill more
Then more and more and more
And insanely often get it

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The chosen

By their fear of the universe, their abnegation

Of responsibility for their moral judgements

You shall know them

In their billions

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Humility could help theists to critical thinking

From “incurable” illness you recover
Self-evidently the illness was curable
The cure beyond comprehension
Beyond comprehension is no evidence of God

You “die” then return to life
Self-evidently you were not dead
Death is the permanent end
No celestial miracles here

Inability to explain is no evidence of God
It is evidence of ignorance; ignorance is no crime
(Unless it's willful) We don’t know everything
And never will:
That   does not   demean us

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This Fundamental of Theism Deserves No Respect

If you maintain "morality is absolute"
Handed down
By an omnipotent supernatural

A being who, to deserve existence,
We must obey   then
You reject/disavow/deny/abnegate
Responsibility for your moral judgements

That fundamental of theism deserves no respect
That fundamental of theism
Deserves contempt

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A judgement closer to home

I notice you are sad
I hug you
And give you a dish of your favourite dessert

Next day without warning
I beat you with a baseball bat inflicting
A fractured skull missing teeth broken bones
Severe bruising
I piss on your face and leave

As you lie in agony on the floor from where
Does your judgement of my actions as
Malign or benign, good or bad, right or wrong,
Aappropriate or inappropriate
Come?

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Theists

By definition

Deny responsibility

For their moral judgements

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The ism

It is the ace
Ninety percent embrace
Even down to the self-respectless
"There must be something"

Disappointing that such vacancy adheres
More effectively than facts
To neurons susceptible in their neutrality
No less to malignant infection than virginity is

To rape
An act theologically upheld
By four
Grinning righteously
Naked male apes

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In the pocket

The pews creak with the weight of adulterers

The pastor, gold plated, shoes squeaking in brotherhood, agrees

With Bill Clinton (more so with the bishop)

”It’s the economy, stupid” now let’s get the gays!

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Obsequies

Shoveling quicklime into mass graves

These vile bodies will be like His

Glorious body? No,

Theirs are worth more

Much more

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A comforting thought

Waiting for the bus; Casual
Remorseless violent death takes him

"Passing" theists say "he’s at rest"
That’s alright then

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An Unblemished Role Model for the 21st Century

^{(re: Rupert Murdoch / News International / NewsCorp / Corruption of Society)
1st published January 2000 in "Letters From An Alien" on my previous blog "Breaking the Bloody Glass":}

Pope John Paul II (beatified & en route to sainthood) is promoted as a man of morals, a moral arbiter whose opinions on ethics we are all encouraged to respect. In addition, a billion Catholics considered him to be God's representative on earth.

The Media Owner Rupert Murdoch made (and still makes) money by promoting racism, sexism, homophobia & the base instincts of the mob.

In 1998, Pope John Paul II & the Vatican awarded Murdoch a Papal Knighthood. The title is awarded to people of "unblemished character". So, according to Pope John Paul II, the Vatican & the current pope Benedict XVI, Rupert Murdoch, still a Knight of St. Gregory, has led a blameless life.

An "unblemished character" suggests a sin free soul. This is a serious, heaven or hell assessment with crucial implications as to how human beings should behave in the eyes of God. A Papal knighthood is not a courtesy title.The Pope is saying that Rupert Murdoch is the man your children should follow. After all, if you wish to please God ... who better to emulate than a man with an "unblemished character".

Perhaps Murdoch's $10 million contribution toward the construction of a Catholic cathedral in Los Angeles suggested to Pope John Paul II that Murdoch had lead a blameless life - or perhaps it is that Murdoch, as Chairman and Chief Executive of News Corporation and owner of Zondervan Publishing House, is the publisher of the New International Version of the Bible (NIV). Although the NIV copyright is held by the International Bible Society, Zondervan has exclusive publishing rights.

So, though you make your fortune by encouraging and preying upon base human instincts, through your ownership of Fox News & such UK publications as "The Sun" and the disgraced "News of The World" you can still have an "unblemished character".

In light of this assessment by popes & the vatican of what constitutes an “unblemished character” I suggest admirers re-examine some of their other pronouncements on moral issues such as condoms and HIV/AIDS, celibate priests, women priests, child abuse, the family and sexuality in general.

It's easy to call for world peace: entertainers and beauty queens do it all the time, and good luck to them. However, we and the media should expect more than that from a much promoted moral leader & institution with the political power of a billion followers.


© labi siffre

Theism

The outsourcing of responsibility

To a fantasy

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How To Handle A Purposeless Universe

Choose a purpose

Get on with it

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Twenty Eleven

Good depends upon deceit

Theism and traditional values infer

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Bad language

"God bless you" assumes
Suggests the addressed
Shares the psychosis of theism; arrogance

Prevents the offender seeing the insult
That assumption presents

Without checking
Don’t do it

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Ethnic Rendering

Islam is no ethnicity

Sikhism is no ethnicity

Hinduism is no ethnicity

Judaism is no ethnicity

Christianity is no ethnicity

None of these is an ethnicity

These are choices of philosophy

To criticize, ridicule philosophy

Which condemns with claimed authority

From a deity with zero evidence of any

Deity’s existence is neither racist

Bigotry nor insult    it is    duty

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Women & Men

To be stoned to death man
Is buried to the waist
Arms free
To push himself dig himself out

In the hail of hurled rocks
If he does he goes free
Unlikely, still a chance

To be stoned to death woman
Is buried to the neck
The cowardice of men
Is an embarrassment

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Info

Out of malignancy and into . . .

Could comprehensive synesthesia
Make mankind benign?
Evolution we need you
We’re running out of time

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An atheist's view of Existence

I am inspired by and have a sense of wonder
Amazement and joy about the universe
In which we fit; to call that "spiritual"
Would be to downgrade it

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Screw moving forward. It’s time to improve.

Gurus masters popes preachers say we’re divine

A circular brown-nose pat on the back

A self-aggrandizing waste of precious time

Fact is we’re not divine but we can

Hold hands

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Can there be morality without God?

if God exists
there can be no morality

no right no wrong
all is entrapment

only without God
can WE be responsible

only without God
can morality be
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Urbi et Orbi

knowing all
we would do
the consequences
to follow

God
(we are told)
created
us

if true
God must have
created
us
for the purpose
of doing
all it knew
we would do
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