Cover your eyes, and count to one hundred
against the old oak tree in your backyard
Do you know who you seek?
Your liberal grand-daughter, raised Roman-Catholic,
now engaged to a Muslim who works for a mulatto family
back in the city you’d left behind to save your
religion
But you weren’t listening, or Father wasn’t teaching…
which is it?
Are you really a friend of Jesus?
Your grand-daughter argues that you do the devil’s bidding
because you spit on her Muslim fiance
and his bi-racial employers
You laugh because you’re cocky,
but you are old, knocking on Death’s door
So why fight a losing battle?
Each generation is moving further away from religion
Religion, in the traditional sense, has one foot in the grave
And religion, by and large, no longer dictates–
at least not here in the States
So stop pretending that gays are going to hell
Stop pretending that God is real
and that God gives humans morals
God does not equal morality
I know many Atheists who are far better human beings
than the most stringent followers of God and his son
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Thank you, Sabrina! ❤
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Poignant!!! Great piece.
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Thank you so much, lovely lady!
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i remember when the lonely island were on channel 101 in la i saw their first video
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Powerful ❤️
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Thank you, Braeden! ❤
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Welcome ❤️
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You keep trying to convince me, lol. It’s kind of working, lol. I’ve been drafting a piece I’m calling, why I hate organized religion. damn you’re good!
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Thank you. And that really is my problem–organized religion.
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Wow, this is the kind of post that loses followers, and makes followers like me love you even more than I did before! Preach on!
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Mr. Clever, you make my heart sing. Some people think its Wild Thing, but no. It’s Ward Clever. ✌💞💞💞
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You make everything groovy. You’re my preacher!
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Then give me some money. LOL
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Hahaha
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It’s uh…for my amphitheater. I mean church.
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Here, have a boatload of cash!
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💰💰💰 Yay!!! Now I have a proper place to park my Jag.
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Yes… on your giant yacht!
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It’s because Ward Makes Everything Groovy!
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He really does!
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Truth ❤️☝️
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This!! I’ve had similar thoughts rumbling beneath my exterior for a while. It’s like when Gandhi said, “I like your Christ but I do not like your Christians” or something like that. I’ve observed that to be Christian is *not* necessarily to be moral. Some of the most pervy and disgusting “massage therapy” “requests” came from those who could not stop talking about their “deep Christian beliefs”. Ugh. Awesome piece, luv 👏🏼👍🏼😘❤️
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Ugh, gross people. Thank you, lovely lady! 💖
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You’re very welcome, my pretty 😘💗🌺
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Damn!!! Say it, Kindra!! I love this! ❤
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Haha! Thank you, friend! 💖
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❤ !
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❤ beautifully put
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Thank you! 😊
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Amen and hallelujah sister! Organized religion is more about social control than morality, spiritually or human decency.
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❤✌ Right on!
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In many ways, religion is the opposite of morality.
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Right on.
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Splendid post. Here in the UK the church is dead and we are the better for it.
Having once been saved AMD now happily unsaved I believe I’m a better person now than when I was insistent that everyone who didn’t agree with me was going to hell because Jesus said so.
I know some lovely Christians but I think they would be good people whether in the church or not.
I also know a LOT of Muslims who simply do as their patemts wish but don’t believe a word of it. One is particularly fond of a sneaky bacon sandwich.
Personally , having grown up in and around the church, I think its rotten to the core and serves an elite few.
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Who in their right mind WOULDN’T want a bacon sandwich?? I used to go to church regularly, and say my prayers every night. For what? Fire insurance? I don’t even believe in hell.
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They did cake quite often. I like cake.
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Mmmm cake.
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Hahaha @ Fire insurance? X
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Ha! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
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The church itself, as long as it was a powerful ideology, has made itself guilty of the mental enslavement of many generations
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Right on.
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So very contemporary of the times that we live in!
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Thank you! To be honest, I was thinking of Archie Bunker.
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Doh!
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So very true. I love it when they try to tell me that all those bad things that happened to me was the devil’s work. That god was the one that out a stop to it after all those years. Um, how about no. Any god that would allow things like that is no god of mine.
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I feel you, Sarah. No god of mine would have allowed my sister and I to suffer the hell we had to walk through. And I know many people who do not believe in god, and they are most moral, kind hearted people anyone could ever hope to know.
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Well said! ❤
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Thank you! ❤
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I meant to write more before but had no time. Mum’s got faith but isn’t devout. Thankfully. I can’t abide and don’t understand devout when it divides families and becomes THE most important thing. I don’t believe in anything ‘cept love, but if there is a God, then he loves everyone…surely? He is non-judgemental, he’s not homophobic or racist or bigoted – and he doesn’t care if I love him, or not.
I’m sorry that you have to be related to people who are so blinkered and I hope it doesn’t sound flippant if I say it’s their loss. But it is. Idiots. I ❤ you and your beautiful ❤
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And here is another example of why you’re my favorite. I love you! ❤
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And I you, dearest Kindred x
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Xo
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