Labi Siffre - Into The Light

FAITH BELIEF INSANITY

And Lo
All powerful
All knowing
Omnipotent
Omniscient God
Killed millions of unborn babies in the womb
(with The Flood)
Angry because the creatures he had designed and made did
Exactly
what He (before day one of creation)
Knew they would do.
Praise the Lord?!
Are you insane?!

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Where Do You Want To Live?

I want to live
in a world where Stupid
is not the norm
Ignorance is not the aim
And a psychosis is not the dominant philosophy

 

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The Question of Free Will

God has Free Will
is Perfect
so could have made
designed created
Perfection
Chose to make a Human Race of imperfection he can threaten
punish
watch
as they
threaten, hurt, wound, kill & feed on one another for His
entertainment
Worship?
Respect?
I have more self-respect than that

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WHAT I WANT

I want to wake up
In a world where
Stupid is not the norm
Ignorance is not the aim
And psychosis is not the dominant philosophy
I can’t see that happening in my lifetime

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Their Sacrifice

Their sacrifice
and ours
What was it for?
Why did your daughter and my son
have to die?
Now we've flown away
Why are the daughters we abandoned
Again caged?
Those men with guns
Why are they and their God
so afraid
of these women and girls
Alive
but erased?
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THE LAWS OF PHYSICS PASS THE TURING TEST

For those searching for "a controlling hand"
The controlling hand is the Laws of Physics.
The laws of Physics are “The Controlling Hand".
The laws of Physics pass The Turing Test.

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Atheism & Me

I'm an atheist

by which I mean

God as generally presented

Is insultingly absurd

but most importantly

is exclusively wielded

as a political weapon

I oppose

both

of those

and for those who fail to define the words they use:

Politics: The wielding of

Persuasion Influence Power Control

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NO MYSTERY

The Religionist psychosis continues to kill;
Believers demand their beliefs
be accepted as fact
Lack courage to admit they have
at least a 50/50 chance
Of being wrong
Lacking humility they continue to make excuses
for God
All powerful yet needing
believers to kill to protect
His thin skin
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Dr Johnson Was Mistaken

God is the last refuge of a scoundrel

Patriotism merely the penultimate

 

 

 

[ USA  UK  Poland  Hungary  Russia

Saudi Arabia   Ireland  Iran  Turkey

North Korea   Vatican City   Nigeria

and more ...

Theism is Politics

That's all]

 

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MAKING EXCUSES FOR GOD

Free will?

OK

Hold your breath

Till day after tomorrow

Then call me

And we’ll discuss it

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WHAT IS ATHEISM?

Atheism is not “merely the absence of belief”

It is a positive affirmation that

Facts and Evidence exist

And Evidence should take precedence over Belief

(An attitude an innocent person

On trial in a court of law

Would agree with

As would an uncorrupted judge

In pursuit of justice).

 

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BLAMELESS

Cos homo sapiens
Is a lazy
(intellectually)
Wilfully ignorant
Species
We look
For easy answers

And cos we want easy
Answers
We made, make and remake
God
(The easy answer to
and for
everything)

And cos we hate most
To be found
Guilty
Responsibility isn’t our bag
So what we make, we say we found
Cos what we find
Was left behind
By something or someone else:
God

So we
Can’t be
Responsible for it
Nor for what we say it says
Nor for what we say it does
Nor for what we say it demands
And thus we achieve our primary goal:
To be blameless

Best of all
On its behalf
As faithful servants
We can demand
Others behave
In the way we say
God demands

And on God’s behalf
We penalise those
Who disobey it/us
And still remain
Blameless

The perfect path to éminence grise
Political power
While we claim, as always,
To be merely
“Believers"

"Terrorists Don't Have A Religion”?

On the contrary, evidence strongly suggests that there have been few, if any, terrorist attacks by atheists in the past forty years. Even so called “militant” atheists choose debate and computer keyboards, not guns.

In the past forty years, terrorism has been almost exclusively religious-terrorism inspired by and wielded in the cause, defence and name of religion.

Claims that "terrorists do not represent our religion" and all religions are "religions of peace" are the craven responses of hubris ridden, self-aggrandisers claiming, with no evidence, that there is a perfect, all powerful supernatural being which above all else loves and justifies them, personally; the subtext being that If everything is God's will, humans (especially believers) conveniently cannot be guilty of anything.

More craven still is the subtext which more than implies that theists, the religious, those who believe in God, by definition cannot BE terrorists. Convenient indeed.

"Terrorists Don't Have A Religion”? On the contrary, in our lifetime they are rarely, if ever, without one.

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Of Men And Women As Mice

That God needed
To create
Proves
God doesn’t exist

No matter how clear this is
Human absurdity
(Theism)
Persists

 

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Fighting The Ideology

If you believe God helps you win a sports match or race or competition, how DARE YOU blame those who believe God gifts them with paradise for murdering civilians.

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Focus

The narrower my view
The easier I can say
"This has nothing to do with ..." (whatever I choose)
Cos whatever I choose cannot be seen
From where I stand
If I narrow my view
So I narrow my view

I narrow my view cos
Parochialism pays dividends
(For me)
I declare things are simple, straightforward
With my narrow view, awkward complexity is banished,
Vanished, irrelevant, not true
So I narrow my view
But

Often wonderfully, too often tragically,
Anything human is complexity
Upon complexity, upon paradox on toast
Shadows have shadows
Ghosts have ghosts
So I narrow my view
Being careful not to tilt
So leave complexity to the few willing
To handle, at least a little, collective guilt

Another man of the people
I feel safer in and with the crowd
Fifty millennia proud and strong; I narrow my view,
Empirically it compounds the problems
But it makes me feel it’s easier to get on

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IN THE NAME OF "AGNABOBBAL"

The Appropriate and Honest Response to “Does God Hate Queers?” is, “There Is No Evidence Of God”.

The question, “Does God Hate Queers?” is dishonest, cynical and dishonourable in that it attempts to give legitimacy to a lie: the lie that we know God exists. The religious speak of "religious belief" but demand that the object of that belief be accepted as a fact. Belief is not evidence. "But there MUST be a God" is not evidence of God.

God is wielded by those wishing to present an unimpeachable authority for their views, beliefs, actions, attitudes, politics, behaviours, discriminations, abuses, lazy reasoning. The audience are expected to respond with "Well, if God says it's OK ... it must be OK". Substitute "Agnabobbal" for "God" and the responses would be "What is Agnabobbal?" "Does Agnabobbal exist?" "Before you crucify this guy on the authority of Agnabobbal please supply evidence that Agnabobbal exists and is not just a cynical and lazy justification for you to do whatever you want with universal approval".

In the name of Agnabobbal I suggest a more rigorous and honourable approach to discrimination, reasoning, and morality.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p050zvxs

Christmas Celebrations

I don’t "celebrate" Christmas. I recognise it as a holiday and employ and enjoy it as such. Some years I manage cards and gifts (though not this year) but I don’t “celebrate” Christmas.

I do “commemorate” Remembrance Day/Armistice Day. If I’m at home on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month I have the TV tuned to the broadcast from The Cenotaph in London. I stand for the commemorative silence.

I like Christmas for the children with their presents for being good (even if they weren’t good all of the time; who is?) but Christmas as a reinforcement of the lie that is theism (the rejection of personal responsibility for our moral judgements) is for me, like all religious holidays, a reminder of our continuing betrayal of human potential.

Taking control means taking responsibility. The buck stops with the maker of the rules. Theism claims morality is handed down to us by God. Theists claim God makes the rules. Theism is the mechanism by which theists shift the responsibility for our moral judgements from our shoulders to the imagined shoulders of God. That process is "the rejection of personal responsibility for our moral judgements".

Dinosaurs existed for 175 million years. Anatomically modern humans (the sub-species Homo sapiens sapiens) have existed for 200,000 years. Hopefully, within the next 200,000 years we will have gained sufficient courage to celebrate human potential by universally accepting personal responsibility for our moral judgements. That celebration I would happily be part of.

 

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The Evening Of The Day Jo Cox Died

"Britain first"
"God is great"
Patriotism
Theism
Scoundrels
Refuge

Penultimate
Ultimate
Radical? No.
Old as a lack of
Courage

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For The Orlando Dead - June 12th 2016

Fifty, yet, dead; a coward
Inspired by craven belief
Killed them; if
Angels exist they shit
In his mouth

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The Difference Between Atheism & Theism

Atheism is the acceptance of personal responsibility for your moral judgements.

Theism is the rejection of personal responsibility for your moral judgements.

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What The World and Homo Sapiens (humankind / hu-woman-kind) Needs

In these serious times we need folks striving to build on what we know rather than an overwhelming majority hiding behind what they believe.

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Paris Attacks 13-11-15

The lie of killing for God
There is no evidence of God
No murderers no murdered go to heaven
Nor to hell
No martyrs, no heroes, only corpses.

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God Is The Last Refuge Of A Scoundrel

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ONLY GOD DESERVES HELL

Jihad Jihad Bring Back Our Girls

And in the end
The great Jihad
Appears to be
Primarily about
The right to have
Women, as slaves,
By day
By night
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