Praying to be able to use Your gift of reason to evade the
faiths we invented, now used to control us
Trusting in god to permit us to co-exist with all the false-god
tricked infidels filling his world
Beseeching him to allow us to stumble upon our own good
solutions at our own slow pace
Hoping ‘He’ need not bother to take the time to watch
over us at every single moment, 24x7x365
Asking for the blessing of logic to fight off the polished
spin of smarmy religious propagandists
Reveling in the wonders, but not mindlessly labeling random
tragedies as his unfathomable will
Casting off the myth of some mysterious plan which we must
accept, but cannot ever understand
Seeking freedom from mind-numbing, rote-memory
fundamentalist literalism, of any stripe
Paradoxically praying that the siege of science by dogmatic
religions will somehow be lifted
Asking him to permit us to recreate the worn out legends we
have so warped and attributed to him
Pleading to be freed from the psychic bondage they control
us with, in his fictional name
Working towards salvation from abusive dogma via
reproducible and peer-reviewed results
Casting a blind eye on religious monuments while looking
closely within at our empty mystery
Rejecting their narrow and self-centered myth of eternal
souls, granted only to we humans
Praying their religious franchises go bankrupt but their
churches at last be put to some good use
Calling out the power-hungry who would use our simple need
to faith to their own greedy ends
Searching for strength to cast off their easy answers and
face the existential questions we fear most
Praying for a faith that does not seek to control us thru
ignorance, fear and superstition
Seeking great human wisdom, but not revealed truth in that
good literature of scripture
Begging these gods we call love not to order that we smite
one another once again, in their names
Asking him to halt the lame demand, mouthed in every
political speech that he bless this country
Needing his wisdom to stop righteously killing one another
over fictional religions we alone invented
Looking for true inspiration while rejecting wornout
fairytales and sighing over children’s prayers
Replacing comic certitude with lonely wailing, shoulder to
shoulder, like wolves under cold stars
Praying for reason that we shall not be tricked into
misplacing our precious faith once again
Probing for answers without any guidance from an infallible
pope’s pompous pronouncements
Placing our belief in mysteries we lack the tools to study
or the wisdom to understand
Throwing off their twisted dictums arising from frightened
foolishness beaten into revered tradition
Mocking their pomp and pretense while unmasking their empty
threats of silly perdition
Combing their worn-out, corny fatwas and ridiculous
encyclicals for new comedy sketches
Choosing rationalism over scripture despite the dubious loss
of their gilded, antique heavens
Respecting their ancient wisdom but rejecting those who use
it now merely as a means to power
Condemning them to publicly self-critique their horrid
jihads and crusades as they serve the poor
Chanting mindless rosary mantras to free our minds from the
stale doctrines to which they bound us
Praying for reason to cast off their self-granted holy
rationalization of ongoing immoral acts
Discovering that a religion must be discarded just like any no longer credible scientific
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