Duel of the Faiths
1,769 views · Published 18 September 2010 · 3:13 · Indexed 10 November 2026
Channel: BionicDance · 2010 · Education
Read my webcomic: http://kanirabaxter.comicgenesis.com/ Visit the BionicDance store: http://www.cafepress.com/bionicdance Twitter: http://twitter.com/BionicDance Another poem for you guys to enjoy. And, for once, I actually appear on camera unenhanced, excapt by green-screen. Don't get used to it or nuffin'; I have no idea whether I'll continue the trend. :) Music by Kevin MacLeod: http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/index.html Used with permission "Seeing's believing," or so the saying goes And in fact I agree I don't see how anybody knows Anything at all Without evidence and reason To believe without proof Is just mental treason Yet it's this kind of faith The religious have in god A kind of mental gymnastics That I find quite odd They're willing to say That a deity exists Though hiding himself is Something on which he insists Belief without proof is God's most fierce of desires Which to my mind makes believers Big fat honkin' liars! What's the difference Between playing Pretend And insisting you have A divine invisible friend? If a god exists you Should be able to show it Being opposed or unable seems fishy, although it appears universal, all religions are credulous despite the evidence of god being scanty and nebulous If you believe in anything Not religion alone On such scanty evidence You deserve to get shown As a credulous fool With chowder for brains And don't come crying to me If anyone complains That your worldview is faulty And you believe without cause After a while, that SHOULD give you pause To consider your position Have you quite thought it through? How do you know that What you're believing is true? There's only one way at all To gain wisdom and knowledge And, though it helps, You needn't go to college To use this technique of learning Of figuring things out The first step, of course Is to listen to doubt! Don't just believe, Stop and make sure With evidence and reason You needn't endure The ridicule of others Cuz you'll have explored Separated fiction from fact Made your beliefs in accord With reason, reality Instead of fantasy delusion You've brought your thoughts To a reasoned conclusion Faith, by contrast Is like going, "So what? "I don't give a rat's hiney "If I talk out of my butt!" Faith isn't knowing Faith is unwarranted belief Whether you're right or you're wrong You may still come to grief Because all you've done is guess You don't actually know And unarmed, without truth Into danger you'll go So for crying out loud Please abandon that behavior Unless you've seen photos You don't know there'z a savior Believe what you see And what you can test If not for your sake Then for all of the rest Of humanity, of life For reason and truth And now I bid you farewell Yea, verily! Forsooth!
