How Convenient, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)

If in real life
A parent gave
All three children
A knife
And sat on his hands
Waiting to see
The last one to stand?

Lets say someone
Observed this act
Certainly the sane
Would stop them
Dead in their tracks
I would say then
That person
Has better morals
Than the God
They believe in.

Lets review
What God didn’t do
He was a deadbeat
When Hitler
Killed all those Jews
He didn’t care
That Anne Frank
Was scared
Put on a death march
And died from typus

But the book says
Whatever the believer
Wants it to say
In real life
There would  be
No way
A parent in good frame
Would allow such harm
To come to their kin

I know that book
I cannot look at it
And skip over
The nasty parts
Of Philistine foreskins
The infanticide
Of the Egyptian
Firstborn

I cannot look past
Babies being dashed
Against rocks
Or a father
Having the ability
To force a rapist
To marry his daughter

As Susan B, Anthony
Once said to trust not
Those who claim
To speak for God
For it always seems
To coincide with their desires

No, I am not here
To end religion
Not by force, that is
It will always be
But those with empathy
Must abandon apathy
In such dangerous company

We’ve seen the dark ages
We’ve seen the inquisitions
We’ve seen the witch hunts
In Salem Massachusetts
And “Gott Mit Uns”
Make Germany Great Again

Oh I am willing
To sand by
Those of peace
That still hold
A god to be true
But but always
Be weary
Of those who
Of violence choose
In the name of “chosen”
Their hearts are frozen
In childish entitlement

Isn’t it funny
How their God
Hates the same
People
They do?
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