Demotivation

In spiritual nowhere land,
he stands some kind of alone
with all the unique egotistical
f***s who have their own
religious rhetoric since they
detest the common
religious rhetoric,

the kind that says humans
are all matter of snowflakes,
unique as each human being
on the planet is currently,

the kind that says salvation
is granted if you accept faith
as actual evidence,

the kind that says even though
you are unique, you are dog s**t
on a sneaker's sole,

your being or soul is really
the sole of a shoe, walked on,
trampled on each and every day,

nature does this routinely,
so why do you want a religion
that does such a thing?

it may motivate us by demotivation,
but that's just another name for
demeaning dehumanization,

but it works despite the positive
shine the apologist put on it,

feed a dog tinsel and they can
make s**t shine too, *

yet, the personality issue remains,
he's still as egotistical a f**k as
he ever was,

no amount of acceptance or
rejection will solve that

Author's Note

* Apologies to George Carlin. Lifted from his 1990 album "Parental Advisory".

Reviews

[TLK]

Faith IS evidence. It is evidence that you believe.
Add faith in the idea of faith being the most important kind of evidence (because there's no proof of it! It's just a conviction!) and you have the reality-bending bubble of combined human wilfulness. Truly, it is possible for a man to pull himself up by his bootstraps, much like Baron von Munchausen.

[Kenneth The Poet]

Maybe you are right, because I have faith in the uniformity of the universe and the languages we describe it in (mathematics and logic). This is an almost ethereal effectiveness to both languages in how they work, which might present evidence of a divine lawgiver an essence that is described by Paul Tillich as "the ground of being", not exactly an anthropromorphic being mind you. I might believe in that, but nature is possibly enough for that I think. This poem is about how I think some atheists (like me) have serious personality issues (like an being an egotistical a*s) despite their lack of belief in a deity.

[TLK]

Arguably, if you don't believe in a God, that just gives you greater license to have a massive ego. I've heard the religious argue many times that atheists therefore think too much of themselves.

Then again, us knowing atheists will proclaim that believing in a separated entity that exists above the universe who created us all (equal?) still allows some people to say they have a hotline to the divine, and therefore pull rank over everyone else. With or without God, we can find reasons to be extra-super-special.

[Hayley]

I love the religious undertone, or really, overtone. You have a view and a course of thought that is clear and inquisitive. I really liked "the kind that says even though
you are unique, you are dog s**t
on a sneaker's sole"
Very nice write!

[Kenneth The Poet]

So true, isn't it? Thanks for the review.