Take Three
take three little children
5 years old
their sweet heads full
of childish thoughts
take three little 5 year olds
attending their schools
three different schools
one Christian, one Jew, one Muslim
teach them religion
teach them each has a god
teach them
three different versions of the one god
indoctrinate
with three holy books
all three
black & white
urging genocide
on each 'other'
indoctrinate
with the word of god
your god
“you are the chosen people”
“all others are your enemy”
“this is your land”
teach this
to 3 little children from age 5
'til they reach 17
teach them
3 different versions of the one god
and when they've grown
you have the seeds for religious war
you have them primed for religious war
you have
crusades
jihad
genocide
'just war'
'pre-emptive defence'
'god is on our side'
separation is separation
separation is division
separation is no empathy with the 'other'
only unity is integration
unity leads to empathy
call loudly for
no religion in schools
work for future unity
for secular schools – no religion -
give children space to flourish
equal
secular schools – no religion -
place all children equal
all children united
all children in empathy
unite
for peace sake
integrate
Pamela Sidney 2008 (22.1.08)
Idiot Evangelical Preachers
the more we experience these weirdos
who dredge up, promote everything
from finding Noah’s
to
we must ask
these ultru-rightist
‘who are they in the pay of ?'
evangelicals
who call themselves christian-zionists
so desperate to prove
every bible myth historical fact
they are ‘flat-earthers’
who believe Genesis to the letter
that earth was made in 6 days
only 4,000 years ago
idiots
who fear the word evolution
so greatly
they dedicate their lives
to discrediting science
they promote in every high school
their theory - ‘creative intelligence’
they build Disney-like museums
depicting old testament myths
brainwashing future generations
yes
we live in strange times
when ‘anything’ is believed
from 'Armageddon' to 'miracles' to 'god'
it would be a laugh
if they weren't so dangerous
these idiots
taken so seriously by Bush
they determine, along with Israel
foreign policy
all of them mongering for war
pushing ‘the powers that be’
"to nuke
who approve of quicker starvation
of faster genocide for the Palestinians
right now
the most dangerous people
Bush - being one of them -
will Obama continue his policies ?
Pamela Sidney 4.2.08
Anxious for Armageddon
(the craziest people on our planet -
American Evangelical Fundamentalists)
to promote their latest version of 'creationism'
it’s new name -
'Intelligent Design'
all this
to let ‘god’ in by the back door
to surreptitiously keep ‘his’ presence
in science, biology, evolution studies
to keep you keep believing
'god made everything'
that evolution is not true
(in fact)
they want you to believe
evolution is absolute ‘evil'
cost $33 million dollars
meticulously designed
to keep all Americans believing
literally
in the ark, adam & eve
the great flood, virgin birth
and above all & most important
that our planet was created
in just 6 days, 4000 years ago
nearly 50% of all Americans
actually believe the old testament literally
it’s creation myth, it’s Armageddon
in fact the ‘extremists’ intend
to absolutely obey
it’s genocide recommendations
it’s sanction of war against the ‘other’ (all enemies)
it’s slaughter of ‘unbelievers’
every kind of mayhem and butchery
and they are salivating at the thought
I can almost feel sorry for these cretins
who can’t wait for the apocalypse
but I wonder if they’re ‘green’ -
if they can ever join (with heart)
the fight against global warming
while they wait so desperately
for the world to end in flaming ruin
while they are so anxious
for Armageddon to begin
(in the Middle East of course)
truth is
how can they really care
to reduce their carbon footprint
when all they want is to be rid
of all the ‘unbelievers'
impatient for disaster to fall
for a ‘messiah’ to ‘save them’
for their rapid ascension to heaven
via a celestial transport system
called
now let’s get it clear
nearly 100 million Americans
(like their president)
are 'born-again Christians'
they believe George when he said
'god told me to invade
and I wonder
will ‘god’ tell George to nuke
(before he leaves office of course)
George, going out with a big bang
endearing himself to the ‘neocons’
George finally does it !
bombs those nasty Persians
(poets ‘n’ all)
an illegal president (he DID steal it)
who, ‘tis rumoured,
before he rose to office
had-never-read-a-book-in-his-life
and I’m thinking -
supposing he did graduate
he must have fiddled things ‘big-time’
at Yale Uni to ‘pull off' his 'graduation'
he, multi-millionaire
by inheritance and oil
prior to his ‘presidency’
had never thought to grow wings
all that earthly wealth
& he wasn’t even curious enough
to see the rest of the world
(the cocaine must have been sufficient)
but enough said of George’s ‘brain’
so sail on 'Intelligent Design'
sold !
(NO PROBABLY FREE when you think of it)
coming to all of us gratis
via George’s intellectually handicapped
fundamentalists furiously fast-pedalling
right this minute mailing DVDs
to every science class-room Australia-wide
DVDs to demonise evolution
coming to you
yankee ‘flat-earth’
dark-age
‘god’ propaganda
'Intelligent Design'
guaranteed
to keep you ‘believing’
and definitely
NOT
thinking
Pamela Sidney 2007 (May approx)
Violence
who is the violence coming from ?
not atheists
as the old tales tell
violence comes
from ‘the believers’
or whatever holy book they follow
Torah – Talmud, Koran, Old Testament
violence follows words of hatred
cherry-picked from sacred texts
each holy book preaches
hatred of the ‘other’
preaches
violence, murder, genocide
these ancient texts
written
but many
down the centuries
writing words translated later
purported to be
the ‘word of god’
writing texts
expanded, embroidered, censored
messed around with
yet
still said to be the ‘word of god’
I say again
violence in this world
comes
not from atheists
but from the
'believers in god'
always has
always will
why atheism ?
(in answer to an email criticizing atheists -
with all the old hackney’d cliché’s)
sadly
your history lesson suggests to me
you are saying
'you're either with us or against us'
gladly
not part of any past
oppressive revolution
no belief system
no bigots do I admire
in the company of good
clear-thinking humans
caring the balm
living the 'here-and-now'
bound to no concocted
'god-after-life-eye-for-an-eye-death-doctrine'
mind abundant, heart independent
thoughts buoyant
dissent the joy
a laughing
life-loving
FREE THINKING
atheist
& proud
i hope - like you...still exploring
Pamela Sidney 5.2.08
The Night the Book Club
Discussed God
what a disappointment
you were that night Germaine
can it be you can’t throw off your ‘god guilt’
the convent girl who climbed and fled
the concrete walls of blind belief
or, is it just jealously ?
the boys got to the god subject first
by the boys I mean:
Christopher Hitchens' 'Atheist Pocket Book'
Michel Onfray's 'Atheist Manifesto'
but this night the book club reviewed
Richard Dawkins' ‘The God Delusion’
a really important brilliant book
(in my opinion)
I was expecting
a powerful fantastic discussion
but the panel were a bunch of 'wimps'
and all you could say of the great work was
and I quote:
“ he talked about god too much”
Germaine
I adored you in the sixties
you’ve been a hero ever since
but all you could utter
was that trite statement
you the anarchist
the ultimate revolutionary
'he talked about god too much'
I feel sorry for you Germaine
still locked into religious guilt
but how can it be ?
I thought your brilliant mind
had transcended
those tight little religious boxes
the nuns tried to put you in
come back to us
be restored
I still want you
my favorite intellectual
it doesn't matter that the boys beat you to it
I want to hear what you've got to say
about ‘god not existing’
it's really important
go on Germaine
write about it
please -
if you’re game !
Pamela Sidney 3.3.08
