Atheist Poem
A child is born, his father beams
Another chance to live his dreams.
A new life now to guide and mold,
He’ll tell the child what he’s been told.
An intellect to quickly seize.
Embrace the faith while reason flees.
So much of life spent on your knees.
Baptize this innocent with tricks
Of sacrifice and crucifix.
Whispered prayers and chanted psalm
Deliver fear and guilt with calm.
Beyond nonsense of ritual
Words tempt of heaven, threaten hell.
Reality is hard to sell.
Reality’s so hard to sell.
Truth is harder still to find.
To keep the faith you close the mind!
And faith, not intellect, is chief
When minds are frozen in belief.
Smear the ashes on the brow
Starve, but feed the sacred cow.
Torah, Koran, Bible scribes
Recite the dusty diatribes,
Quote endless scripture, Pray the beads,
Worship countless deities,
Proclaiming love dispense the hate,
Banishes excommunicate!
Scorn the man whom reason rules,
Congregate with holy fools.
Celebrate all martyrdom.
Capture minds while they’re still young,
Be sure to get them when they’re young.
Cathedrals vaulted ceilings high
Regally dress up the lie.
Burn the incense, sing and sway
Superstition saves the day!
Ring the bells and genuflect
Dance with snakes around your neck.
Wail at the wall, bow to the east,
Ignorance is a senseless beast.
Shout fire and brimstone, heaven and hell,
But fear the individual,
Fear most the individual.
Janet O' Neill
A child is born, his father beams
Another chance to live his dreams.
A new life now to guide and mold,
He’ll tell the child what he’s been told.
An intellect to quickly seize.
Embrace the faith while reason flees.
So much of life spent on your knees.
Baptize this innocent with tricks
Of sacrifice and crucifix.
Whispered prayers and chanted psalm
Deliver fear and guilt with calm.
Beyond nonsense of ritual
Words tempt of heaven, threaten hell.
Reality is hard to sell.
Reality’s so hard to sell.
Truth is harder still to find.
To keep the faith you close the mind!
And faith, not intellect, is chief
When minds are frozen in belief.
Smear the ashes on the brow
Starve, but feed the sacred cow.
Torah, Koran, Bible scribes
Recite the dusty diatribes,
Quote endless scripture, Pray the beads,
Worship countless deities,
Proclaiming love dispense the hate,
Banishes excommunicate!
Scorn the man whom reason rules,
Congregate with holy fools.
Celebrate all martyrdom.
Capture minds while they’re still young,
Be sure to get them when they’re young.
Cathedrals vaulted ceilings high
Regally dress up the lie.
Burn the incense, sing and sway
Superstition saves the day!
Ring the bells and genuflect
Dance with snakes around your neck.
Wail at the wall, bow to the east,
Ignorance is a senseless beast.
Shout fire and brimstone, heaven and hell,
But fear the individual,
Fear most the individual.
Janet O' Neill
Intelligence is the only true moral guide...
