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2/26/2020 11:06:33 PM
Bob Atkinson Posts: 294
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Toleration
by Bob Atkinson
Pierre (Bayle) believed in absolute
simplicity in this world
no dictatorial attitude
to make mankind serve
serve those in current power
a used religious ritual
to hypnotize one’s trust
and compromise one's principles
or politicians using media
for hypnosis of the weak
lies, deceptions thrown upon us
like truth without much meat
an inquisition designed to enslave
masses toward a deity
which may or not lie absolute
in formal competitive history
with others of a like purpose
who chose a different master
a wicked search for simple power
which results always in disaster
take arguments with great caution
for those methods procreated
within the minds of mortal men
have caused humanity’s enslavement
“…kill you if you don’t agree
in our method for distrust
of anyone who doesn’t follow
our plan for life’s engulfment ...”
“…torture those who don’t believe?
well that’s not an immoral act
we’ll kill you hands down for non-belief
as we the righteous react….”
inquisition was a tool
to gather wealth not earned
merely confiscated with violence
like with taxes our lives burned
with promises never kept
as only promises are free
everything else needs repayment
usually by loss of freedom
they react to those who don’t believe
in what elite espouses
unbelievers branded as dirty souls
so rational argument’s abandoned
what an absurd form of organization
to be immoral when
one condemns opposition
with such aviolent hand
we as true believers
where belief wasn’t real
found adherence to a plan
brought to us with so much zeal
wow, these represent pseudo-truths
of those who would gain power
over fellow men with
immorality shot like an arrow
sounds like current politics?
‘tis only repeat of rotten tactics
professed by religious orders
which never showed who their master
a group of elite men
who found with ritual hypnosis
anything desiredto be at hand
in their power hungry process
thank goodness people now see
how this process repeats its folly
a simple solution to evolution
let not our minds be turned to jelly
let not us be lied to again
as in humanity’s past
where enslavement by government
and religion wasn’t by chance
was deviousness of elites
who shoved these ideals down
our throats into our hearts and
threw away moral enhancement
or advancement of the soul of man
to where civilization could be claimed
while now we fight our brothers
because of morality drained
drained by those whose fictions devise
plans to enslave us in our beds
keeping freedom from progressing
with nonsense shoved into our heads edited by Bob_Atkinson on 5/2/2023
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2/20/2022 9:52:04 PM
Bob Atkinson Posts: 294
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Think about Canada when you read this poem.
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