An Atheist's Lament - A Poem by BionicSeuss |
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Description: Just a wee bit o' rhyme for your day, my fellow atheists. As I live in this world I'll take a minute To look all around And ponder what's in it Animals, plants, and chemical bonds Gasses and water For oceans and ponds And then further out We've got planets like Mars And several classes Of hot burning stars If we look further in, We see cells and atoms Quarks and leptons In Sub-stomic stratums The universe is a vast And wonderous place And yet despite that Many of us can't face A world without answers Without external reason For life, for living For the turn of the seasons It matters not to them Whether this reason is real They care only how Their god makes them feel They imagine up deities To keep them safe and protected To puninshed the wicked And those who've rejected This notion of deity Though unproved it may be God exists for those Full of piety And yet, when those Who do not believe Say to the religious We've got a pet peeve About their religion And how faith is required And how we've been treated When we've inquired How to tell if god's real And not just a fable And asked them to bring A few facts to the table And yet when we do We get told that we're evil For not just believing For causing upheaval As if it's our fault God's not real in the end And all that they're doing Is playing Pretend With themselves and their flock The whole congregation Is it any wonder We find conflagration If they're confronted by those Who demand evidence and reason Instead of equating Questioning beliefs with treason? How do we manage when We're diametrically opposed Each side would prefer If their views were imposed Or at least accepted And not a pariah Whether we're talking Atheist or messiah The way that I see it It's our religious brothers Being the ones who won't Play well with others. Don't get me wrong, I think they're all nuts And in many ways I think that they're what's Wrong with this world But despite all that flak I can live and let live If they'll just do it back! But they won't and I know it They think this world's theirs And that, my friends Is a sad state of affairs. Thank you Oh, and read my damn webcomic: http://kanirabaxter.comicgenesis.com/ 
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