Roy Merritt Poet Rhyme

Religion Ruins Everything

RELIGION RUINS EVERYTHING
By Roy Merritt 
             
The malice of gods unseen malice of millenniums past
The evil one can readily conjure and difficult to surpass
No matter which faith it claim no matter where it grew
No matter those it proclaim naught but hate they spew
And despite their proclamations of love of hopeful measure
Trust not what they seek, in the end it mostly be treasure
Onward Christian soldier onward the Jihadist they screech
Onward bring destruction their walls we soon will breach
And if not for conversion if they don’t kneel to our ways
We bring them but carnage the end of their spiteful days
Callous be our churches hatred in our mosques resound
Explosions rock the streets to hell we all be bound
What do we know of gods what claim we have of worth
That a deity would reveal himself to we who dwell on earth 
I can’t imagine at all shall never come to understand
The good there might be in we blood soaked human man     
None have said it better than Hitchens long past had seen 
That god is unworthy of us religion ruins everything 
It make one willing to murder it make one easily to war 
It make one distrustful of all and millions to curse and abhor 
It make one turn on neighbors it make one turn on a friend 
It make one to desecration it make one to wallow in sin 
Don’t dare ponder your contradiction with any kind of rationale 
Don’t question the words of those so wretched perverse and foul 
Though fools we know they be fools from that distant Bronze Age 
Fools we certainly see filled with superstitious and foolish rage
What fear they of modernity what fear they have of wisdom
What makes them wish to dwell and languish in this prison
What think you when some time what will it we thus replace
When we upon some time encounter others about in space
Will we adopt their gods what will it be we say 
If he not be the one we cherish and daily to whom we pray
Will we call for conversion to Jehovah or to Allah they kneel
Will we continue our wars the unbelievers curse and kill
Will we at last come to see what Hitchens had clearly seen
That god is unworthy of us religion ruins everything

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Phil Capitano December 5, 2016 at 6:52 PM Wow! Really expressive and deeply sacrilegious ~ I like it a lot, there is so much here to think about. Roy Merritt December 5, 2016 at 7:02 PM Well Phil my intent was necessarily sacrilegious or inclined to insult the faithful of any religious philosophy, but rather those who wallow in hypocrisy in the name of religion. However I must admit I am not a believer, but a humanist, a long tradition in some circles back to the Enlightenment. I'm glad you liked it.