A daughter slaughtered,
In her father’s name,
And to his shame,
Committed to the flame,
A pile of adolescent ash,
Because her Dad was rash!
A daughter slaughtered,
In her father’s name,
And to his shame,
Committed to the flame,
A pile of adolescent ash,
Because her Dad was rash!
Integrity and intellectual honesty can lead a person out of the dogmatic prison of Christianity and the blatant profiteering of religious organisations
This is by far the longest poem I’ve ever written. It’s available on video at my YouTube channel here but I wanted to put out the text itself.
It’s not exactly brilliant poetry although I hope it’s not actually terrible. It is heartfelt though. This narrative poem describes my journey into and out of Christianity. Here I describe the cynical, opportunist exploitation of the evangelist, preying upon the desperate, the grief stricken and the depressed. I explain, at least in principle the not so subtle ‘carrot and stick’ trap that leads people to abandon actual knowledge in favour of bronze age stories written by people who genuinely didn’t know where the sun went at night.
Finally I explain how integrity and intellectual honesty can lead a person out of the dogmatic prison of Christianity and the blatant profiteering of religious organisations.
You can download the PDF below or go to the resources section of the blog. I hope you find it helpful.
Such violence and prejudice in Jesus’ name. And most moderate Christians say nothing.
Stand up for your Jesus…
Not in His name!
Are you a moderate Christian?
If so, here’s your chance to make a genuine difference.
Stand up for your Jesus. Join the rest of us and enter the fight against the renewed rise of fascism…
In Jesus’ name!
It is my belief, which I told Jonathan several times throughout the discussion, that he simply is not equipped for this type of discussion.
This is both the longest and the most infuriating conversation I’ve had with a Christian. It’s definitely what you might think of as ‘long form’. It is my belief, which I told Jonathan several times throughout the discussion, that he simply is not equipped for this type of discussion. I have advised him to learn the basics of his religion and to actually read his Bible.
In the second half he demonstrates his utter contempt for anyone who doesn’t agree with him, his dismissal of any notion of equal rights and just how much he deserves the rarely applied (but in this case very well deserved) label of ‘Christofascist’.
His misogyny, racism, homophobia and xenophobia are expressed with a smug pride that has to be seen to be believed.
If we give people like Jonathan an inch they’ll drag us all straight back to the bronze age!
A night cursed by Bacardi
And a man she barely knew,
Ruining her potential,
Her career already through…
Who would condemn this poor young girl?
Limit her future, her world,
‘Cause on a night cursed by Bacardi
And a man she barely knew,
She fell pregnant with a zygote,
That has nothing
To do
With you!
The God of Abraham’s not a shit,
He’s just a myth that doesn’t fit,
The modern world because we know
Too much.
I wondered how I could have been so blind
Genocide and slavery
Gaslighting and rape
All sanctioned, even ordered
By this God of perfect love
Arbitrary punishments
Capricious twists of fate
Hypocrisy, failed prophecy,
Sadism and hate!
The devaluing of woman
Only useful when they breed
A receptacle for callous
Selfish men to sew their seed
And I realised in trembling fear
Shredding many a heartfelt tear
That this hateful God was far from good
No one with integrity could
Support its vile crimes
God is not a good role model
There is no more abusive character than the Abrahamic God than in the whole of fiction.
Following their dirty weekend in Marbella, Adam and Eve return to the garden
Following their dirty weekend in Marbella, Adam and Eve return to the garden only to find that God got bored waiting for their return and made a couple of imposters instead.
And then there was all that stuff about the apples… Nasty business, that was!
In what context could stoning a raped woman to death ever be justified?
In the Bible, Jesus tells us that God’s law shall never pass away until Heaven and earth are no more (Luke 16:17/Matthew 5:18). The Old Testament book of Deuteronomy literally translates as ‘the law repeated’. This law, the law of the old testament as written in the Hebrew bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy) is the only law that Jesus, a Jew would, could have been talking about. And so it is to Deuteronomy that we turn when asking how to deal with rape victims.
Because the God of Abraham definitely isn’t ProLife!
Are you ‘pro life’? Do you object to abortion on religious grounds? Maybe you should read your Bible instead of just beating people over the head with it.
