Malefaction

From its inception,
By immaculate conception,
This buffoonery is nothing,
But dramatized deception.

That it has escaped,
So many's detection,
And not resulted in,
Popular rejection,
Is quite the opposite of,
Rational perfection.

With meaningful reflection,
We might see some defection,
But as an infection,
It spreads in each direction.
From which few have,
Any kinda protection.

What we need is some correction,
And a modicum of reflection,
To engender some deflection,
Of religions' misdirection.

Or else it's subjection,
To mental vivisection,
And a predilection,
for total misconception.

Widows spend their pension,
Chasing resurrection,
While by extension,
And at the church$' discretion,
Heaven's barred to those,
With extra-marital erections.

No Accommodation

This is in response to an article which can be found at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pete-enns-phd/does-god-talk-to-us-throu_b_637765.html

You said, "Conservative Christians have pretty much learned their lesson from Galileo: you can't count on the Bible to answer scientific questions.

" Well, advocates of intelligent design and bible based antipathy toward homosexuals certainly have not learned that lesson. And as for atheists thinking the bible is stupid, I am an atheist and I don't think it's stupid. I think it is inherently dangerous however and has a long history of being wielded like a club by its adherents. Since any concept of god is and must be a mental figment, as the bible itself in places tries to warn, what is really going on is not god worship but book worship. Some books are dangerous because of what people do with them and what they do to people. Both common sense and the instinct for self-preservation should cause us to side with the atheists, Hitchens in particular, when he says, religion poisons everything. Without religion the bible becomes a resource for the objective study of how our predecessors interpreted their world and tried to make sense of it. With religion it becomes a manual for an entire alphabet of horrors. Apologists and accommodationists are naive at best and at worse provide support for an impoverished way of thinking that has rained misery and cataclysm upon us for far too long. Leaving the magic-fantasy thinkers unchallenged damages everyone. They are victims too. Made as they've become before their reasoning faculties could mature.

Fantacies Can be Viral

If we could just stop making things up! We have no clue if " what is" had an initiating cause or not since there is no such thing as matter separate from time. This discomfort, this tenacious, stubborn insistence that a thus far unanswerable question be answered even if it requires colossal self-deception and the betrayal of our most distinguishing human trait, consciousness, damages us in ways too ubiquitous to name. These codified musings made solid, given fangs and claws purely by force of will, cloud reality, retard discovery, and set people against each other not in competition
over resources, but whose fantasy is the most compelling. The history of humanity thus far has been little more then but a bloody battle to the death over whose fabrications can entrap and
pervert the most consciousnesses. Dawkin's talks of meme's. I see his point. These distortions become self-renewing, self-perpetuating, viral. The antidote to an awareness distorting virus is first,
awareness of the virus and second, feverish dedication to rooting it out in ourselves and others with a fervor and tenacity rivaling those who carry the disease.