Here's a
Hudibrastic verse on woo,

for
superstitious folk like you.

 

The
Christian’s Jehovah, an Almighty God,

is a
capricious and cantankerous clod;

and, so far
as I can tell,

the
Christian often is as well.

Confused by
dogma, the god-fearing fogey

can’t
fathom the nature of that Bible Bogey.

 

                 

Is it a
father, his son, and an apotropaic ghost too?

Well, it
should be obvious that’s ridiculous woo.

Yet
Christians claim this god, in its Empyrean lair,

is
omniscient, omnipotent, benevolent and fair,

but, with
the unresolved problem of theodicy,

their dogma
is eristic, Christian idiocy.

                   

The Jew’s Yahweh, that
meshuggeneh, the jerk,

set Jews strict rules
on when to work,

how to dress, and what to sup or
sip,

and giving baby boys the snip.

The myths of Bronze
Age, goat-herding nomads,

have them,
metaphorically, by the gonads.

                  

The Moslem’s Allah, a
fierce great djinn,

demands under ‘Islam’,
literally, ‘Submission’.

Apostasy is treated
just like a crime;

they’ll threaten to
kill you, to keep you in line,

and if you dare draw
Mohammad in a comic cartoon,

there’ll be riots and
killings from here to Khartoum.

                   

Hindu, Sikh, Jain, and
Buddhist,

Zoroastrian, Baha’i,
Mormon, and Scientologist,

Confucianist, Shintoist, and Taoist
too,

Spiritualist, Wiccan, and the New
Ager into woo. 

Yea, verily, those of each and
every religion,

are mired in the miasma of
superstition.

                   

The gods
from the Bronze Age up to modern times,

and from
the Arctic down to tropical climes,

have
inspired theology that’s unsubstantiated twaddle,

on what an
invisible and silent god’ll

devise as
its inscrutable, eschatological plan,

but all the
gods were made in the image of man.

 

So, why
should yours be the one true faith,

in a magic,
phantasmagorical wraith?

Belief,
without evidence, is just plain crazy,

ignorant,
stupid, or thoughtlessly lazy.

When
evolution happens, it’s due to Natural Selection,

so life
derives no purpose, at a theistic god’s direction.

 

The
evidence is we have just this one life,

with all
its pleasures, challenges, toil, and strife.

As social
beings we evolved our moral sensibility

to combat
selfishness, lust, and venality.

Religion
misunderstands, and so invokes the supernatural,

while
Humanism strives to promote the good and rational.