God watches every sparrow fall<\/p>\n
And every bomb fly by<\/p>\n
Then why does slow sweet cancer call<\/p>\n
Those innocent of nearly all<\/p>\n
To torment until they die?<\/p>\n
All religions lie my friend, all religions lie<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Was it God who made the Kalashnikov<\/p>\n
And brought death down from the sky<\/p>\n
And made for Hitler his ranting voice<\/p>\n
And gave planes for Bin Laden to fly?<\/p>\n
The shepherds gather up their flocks<\/p>\n
And hand out rifles, bombs and rocks<\/p>\n
One hand on their wallets, the other on their cocks<\/p>\n
They march to do or die<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
And God so wise to give free will<\/p>\n
To us to rape and steal and kill<\/p>\n
To suicide bombers addled with lies<\/p>\n
As fragments of bodies spatter the skies<\/p>\n
I ask you now and once again<\/p>\n
Who will shoulder the fucking blame?<\/p>\n
Who will succour those left behind<\/p>\n
By the lies of religion, the light of the blind<\/p>\n
Oh all religions lie my friend, all religions lie.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Well God he moves in mysterious ways<\/p>\n
He loves us all, except for gays<\/p>\n
Their Books they say he made us all \u2013<\/p>\n
And in those Books you hear the call<\/p>\n
To stone them dead with cock and ball<\/p>\n
– well, bugger you! And leave the stage! \u2013<\/p>\n
If he made me in his own image<\/p>\n
Then tell me why I so often cry<\/p>\n
That all religions lie my friend, all religions lie.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
And listen well to the wily spell<\/p>\n
Of pastors priests and imams who<\/p>\n
Swear by God a burning hell<\/p>\n
That waits for me and you and you<\/p>\n
If you try to die without their tune<\/p>\n
Which runs a bit like this:<\/p>\n
\u201cUnless you sing just MY old song<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ll never<\/em> enter bliss.\u201d<\/p>\n But all religions lie my friend,<\/p>\n And I can tell you this:<\/p>\n If all but one is very wrong<\/p>\n I\u2019d rather sing just my own song<\/p>\n And blast them with a kiss!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Oh they also tell some truths my friend<\/p>\n They\u2019ll state some things your mind to bend<\/p>\n They\u2019ll make you laugh<\/p>\n And rock or roll<\/p>\n And then they\u2019ll simply steal your soul<\/p>\n And milk you till you die\u2026.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Don\u2019t bother trying to tell them all<\/p>\n They\u2019ve lies for every beck and call<\/p>\n They twist the world in every way<\/p>\n And fall on Faith to which they pray<\/p>\n Which saves from truth and keeps Logic away<\/p>\n And lets them live and die<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Oh! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" God watches every sparrow fall And every bomb fly by Then why does slow sweet cancer call Those innocent of nearly all To torment until they die? All religions lie my friend, all religions lie Was it God who…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonelkon.com\/jnlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAll religions lie my friend, all religions lie.<\/p>\n