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Jesus searched for disciples in the Middle East came up with Thomas Mark Mathew and John quite a leap of faith from the dessert to London with bridges burning and not a bush in sight oh ye of little credence and where was the editor but of course perspective loses out in translation People want no nonsense deities beyond reproach simplicity to understand even if the garden path leads them to a snake devouring an apple instead of The Little Prince’s hat when the boa constrictor swallowed a huge elephant in the allotment shed God is dead, remains dead and we have killed him patricide as Freud suggested and bonking the mother Sex and aggression played out in crusades and battles a dominatrix in leather and steel armoured weapons whipping natives into submission and tough shackles prison guards salivating while browsing through **** Some try a kind Universe despite its black holes pray to the Sun Moon and Stellar Convictions relieve witches from drowning when stakes burn in unequivocal desire for Peace and loving kindness something to hold on to when searching for a Self book a pilgrimage to Stonehenge somewhat unhinged but better the devil we do not know than Satan Am I an atheist when I bet on Science and Philosophy switch the light on in Plato’s Cave and stoke the fire of good reason sound premises and valid conclusions seek tolerance moderation and harmony with emotion balance the books with cognition and feeling and do not bow to false dogmatic idols and punitive divinities When Jung meets world conscience and evolution Darwin reads from the pulpit and turns temple tables Kant relishes the contest with existence before essence and the poet Camus is no stranger to a meaningless life on Kerouac’s road diverted by Frost in the forest of dreams in which Tarot Cards wield archetypes which of course were prohibited from the saving Arc While Nirvana and Apocalypse Now fight it out in times of delusion victor’s justice and fallacies I remember that the Promised Land is at War with equality social justice and fair allocations between haves and have nots and there is no win-win situation Of course my life seems much more complicated as a doubter who cannot hide behind Churches or sanctified burial grounds of hopeful delusion but the earth is not flat or I’d fall of the edge