The Atheist

God is pure of heart, or so I have been told. I am not pure of heart, this also I've been told. So if I am to be with him again someday I need to be purified; scrubbed vigorously clean of all sin and temptation, because God is not tempted and so I should not be either... But it doesn't end there... In order to be truly purified I must seek an answer to my crisis of faith, the way, the truth, the life, that comes only from without and never from within... It could be in a book as there are many books on this subject that I have yet to read... It could come from a teacher as there are many who would teach me should I choose to learn their unique interpretation of what faith is and what it's not... It could be an expensive piece of cloth embellished in gold, shining brilliantly and drawing worldwide admiration because surely God speaks to men of expensive taste so maybe I should too... It could come from a group of people Speaking loudly and angrily asking questions that they alone have the answers to. The walkers of the straight and narrow who listen to their own kind and no one else... Or perhaps a philosophy As those are a dime a dozen and everyone around me subscribes to one so maybe I should too... These are my only options, or so I have been told... These are the ways, the truths, the lives, that will get me to my destination... I only wish I was told sooner.