Labi Siffre - Into The Light

Politics and Religion?

It is a moral duty to oppose
Philosophy that condemns without evidence
Of the God it wields as a political weapon
Religion is Politics

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Discomforting Truths Nº 349

War here is endless
And we have learned
Having people to hate
And killing them makes
Us feel superior
In control
We have the power
To Rape
Mutilate
Dictate
War
Has been
And is
Good
For us
Why would we stop
We will not
Stop

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Breaching the coast

On newly acquired legs
Would they have acted differently
Had they suspected the sand would bloom
Blood fed
With superstition and wilful ignorance
Claimed as sacred?

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Waiting for a Song

I am a British atheist advocate
Of the republic form of government

To sing, I have
No national anthem of meritocracy

Instead, a paean
To the smoke and mirrors celebrity
Of God, royalty, vacancy

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Religious Scholars

Theologians gather to interpret what
The perfect God they invented meant
Cos the perfect God they invented
Cannot write so good as to be,
Without murderous 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 then more then more
And insanely often get it

("Respect", that is)

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Wanker

Anders Behring Breivik sane; fatally
Stupid no revolutionary
Lacking in vision a dull recycler
Of a many failed past

Praised of course
By other losers; the easy way out
Has always brought honors
From slurried followers

In the pot of human progress remember
The invention of bread is of more import
Than the invention of gunpowder will ever be

And the children of Utoya will forever have
More substance than the wanker who killed them

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19365616

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Language

I talk

To wild animals

They understand

Perfectly

I am

Human

They keep

Their distance

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The Price Of Brief Lifespans

Our present is the past recycled

Our disasters are second hand

Our fashions though louder are merely awesome

Only our adjectives change

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If It Ain't Got That Swing

The day doesn’t fall, we shove it
Over the hills and far gun shots
Scream; the street cries
Blood streams from bags of lies

More fall to their knees in prayer mode
(Brown nosing always sells) by the time
The cops come we’ve stripped the bodies
Of cash keys shoes phones

Spiritual things we respect
In this hood; tradition flowers
On all four corners of the crosses we wear
Bouquets of jacked justification

"To smell the next crash
You have to live" we sneer
At battered wives "why don't you leave?"
So why don't we, homie?

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(N)o (R)eality (A)pplies

Guns don't kill people

People kill people

Tragically there are so many people

With guns

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Birth of an Artist

The family visits The Tate

Through her burqa’ she sees

A reason to change

Her family

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The Tate

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In a World of Heroes Martyrs & Decency

To improvise relevance
When you’ve lost interest in, or faith in,
Or hope for your species

Self-named with no sense of irony
“Wise man”, Homo Sapiens is problematic
Except, today the news

News of the death of a precious fluorescence
In a dull spread opacity of near stagnant water
The death of Vaclav Havel, playwright,

Political prisoner constantly caused with kindness
To lead, of necessity not profession, no place-man,
In deed the right man in place

On the body politic there’s less
Than a hand space for such, and seconds only
Room for any to make a scratch; what good

To scratch water? Still, the memory of a hot bath
Mid hypothermic death is mockery and comfort
Besting mockery alone; screw that

Push hope aside; resolve to die standing
A living fluorescence
If only for the sense of it
The loss of it
The will of it

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The Public Interest

It's good to know
Journalists don't
Have affairs
Produce casually
Begotten Kids
Commit adultery
if they did
They'd report it
Surely
They'd report it

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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 (but 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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Relativity

He paints the room with a single hair

To complete it will take his life; time

Compared to human progress, well spent

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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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The Wall

If humans have free will they are
Responsible for their choices
Responsible for their actions and
If God has free will He is
Responsible for His choices
Responsible for His actions
Do you see? Responsibility
Or do God and you prefer
Double standards
Sly hypocrisy?

Of his own free will God
Could have chosen to create nothing at all
Or to create a human race that loved
And cared each for each other
Would never harm one another

Yet of His own free will and knowing how
The dice would fall God chose
To create this human race that smothers peace
And nurtures murder, hate, abuse, war,
Exploitation, indifference to the suffering of others

So, if humans are judged by the weight of God’s law
For their choices and their actions justly
God must be judged by God’s law
For His choices and His actions
Do you see? Responsibility
Or do God and you prefer
Double standards
Sly hypocrisy?
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White Slavers In Dreadlocks

Beenie Man & Buju Banton, Sizzla, Tok and Elephant man
Vybz Kartel and Bounty Killer, Capleton why
You all degrade and weaken the black nation
‘Stead of trying to save 'em
From hatred and discrimination?

Cutting edge, brave and bold you claim, but in reality
You lame
Your salvation be to teach black children hatred
And discrimination of the other; that's no way to raise
Black sisters and brothers

Hatred and discrimination
They the tools the white man used to make us slaves
Clever of you to learn the slaver’s ways
It make you lot o money of course
It always does (no shock)
You learned that lesson well
(From Rupert Murdoch?)

Black brothers no, methinks not.
You just another jancro flock
Of slack White Slavers In Dreadlocks.

You preach hatred and discrimination against me
A gay black man who wrote
“Something Inside So Strong”
A song of defiance and self-affirmation
Written for black people, red people, gay people
Old people, women, children, the disabled
Every people suffering injustice

Righteous you quote your holy book
Like standard 'ypocrites & fascists
No surprise look see as usual you list selectively
Only those parts you need to sell your cowardice & bigotry
(We shouldn’t expect courage from you fellas
Who clearly lack the balls to follow Nelson Mandela)

No matter how high you fly you renk
Who raise yourselves by treading on others

Black brothers no, methinks not.
You just another jancro flock
Of slack White Slavers In Dreadlocks.
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Another Bowl of Slurry From

That Cheeky Charley Heir to the Throne

If it is “precious and sacred” to them
Or you, that is perhaps ok

Though don’t you think female genital
Mutilation, sharia law, the execution of
Apostates (and some other practices)
Should, more than perhaps, demand
A clarion call of “no way!”)

In any event, when anyone attacks
By insisting
Their dishonest and offensive
Claims to "knowledge of god”
Be precious and sacred
To me

I will oppose your
Vacuous regal prose
And them
Vigorously

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For The Record

^{(28 Jan 2006)}

In the middle east for years there’s been
From israel and the USA no “Peace
Process”
Instead there’s been a "Palestinians
Must capitulate
Process"
Sharon and Bush being never allied
To peace but tied to nullification
Through the emasculation
Of the stateless
Palestinian
Nation
By means of “the occupation” - by increasing West Bank
Illegal settlement building operations - by an internationally
Condemned illegal "Berlin Wall" - by installing
Palestinian Bantustans - by ignoring UN resolution
242 - by keeping Palestinians short of water and
Cash
The intention is to render Palestinian parents
Sons and daughters impotent of action
Barren of hope, irrelevant
Helpless - bound with
Israeli rope
Consider
Against fighter planes and missiles fired at market stalls
And civilians old and young- against tanks and bull
Dozers demolishing palestinian homes - against
An occupation by a nation that rejects “the
Roadmap” and insists they have the right to
Violence - and to incite violence - but
Insists Palestinians do not have
Those rights *
Against all this perhaps
The Palestinians have
At least the right
To fight

* "As in the other mutual frameworks, the Roadmap will not state that Israel must cease violence and incitement against the Palestinians". . . para 1 of the Israeli Cabinet Statement on the Road Map - (may 25th '03) . . . from  "Back To The Roadmap"  (posted May 13th 2004)

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A Self Full Killing Joke

Brothers in Islam, Khomeini et Saddam
Led you laughing to the promised land
(Two revered conductors
Of “The-Blinded-Amputee-Baby Band”)

A top forty hit your war with Iraq
A glorious victory on both sides
All who died were glorified martyrs
(Religious interpretation being conveniently wide)

And is it true when they say Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Has a diamond eye and a sapphire ring
And passes perfumed wind?

Get real, the holocaust happened   
Your denial paints you cowards and fools;
Six million, babies women men all Jews
Murdered by race hate that shackles
Your people their people my people all people
To the same stupid tit for tat rules

Move Israel to Austria or Germany?
(Or Poland?) let them do the time ‘cause
They did the crime? a rewrite of Nero and Rome
Ahmadinejad does standup - while on The West Bank
They have rubble for their home

Do you really want your kids and theirs
And theirs to be forever taking turns
In the history café as kebabs
From Clifford’s Tower in 1190's York
To 1943 at Sobibor - nine hundred years
No wonder Israel vowed, “no more!”

But that’s no excuse for Israeli crimes in Palestine
The theft of land, the theft of lives; the theft of truth
Though is hard to criticize when Ahmadinejad blatantly
Lies
‘Stead of calling again and again for Arab oil to be used
As the weapon
Again and again for resolution 242 reminding the world
That a thief is required to return all not just part
Of his or her ill gotten haul; and the children cry
“Save us all” - “Save us all” - “Save us all”

sources:
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Clifford’s Tower
Resolution 242
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Error of Judgement

One way of addressing Iran's
Quest for nuclear weapons

Would be to address Israel's
Possession of them

My mistake
Stupid suggestion
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Entrapment

As God knew

What Judas would do

In the final accounting

Who betrayed who?

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