Michael Edwards

VIEWS FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF FENCE

 

 

VIEWS FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF FENCE

 

Nearly every day the site carries poetry in praise of religion but I can’t recall seeing anything written from a humanist perspective so I thought I’d reverse the trend if only for one day with these shorties which come to me in fits and starts. There is no offence intended any more than offence is intended by the religious poets who contribute here.

 

1)

Humanist views are rarely defended

so that believers can’t claim they’re offended.

 

 

(2)

The bible is true

Oh! But not the parables

Subtle cherry picking

 

 

(3)

For all the good things, praise be to god

but not the bad things, now isn’t that odd.

 

 

(4)

Why do they quote from

a book of assertions

when asked for the facts?

 

 

(5)

Christian, non-Christian

believer, non-believer

religious, non-religious

So derogatory

So negative.

 

Humanist, non-Humanist

agnostic, non-agnostic

atheist, non-atheist

that’s better

 

(And note the capital ‘H’ )