The Atheist Touch

A reaching out to others of a similar spirit in a godless world.

The Atheist Touch

Each one teach one…

Each one reach one…

Each one is kin.

 

My father today is my son tomorrow…

My brother now is my sister later…

Their life belongs to me and mine to them.

 

Those who spill the blood of we are not we,

Yet must be loved as we…

Lest we become them.

 

The night is dark and I know fear…

I pray to gods who do not hear…

If they exist they are not near.

 

My brothers/sisters touch my hand

To clear my mind with peace.

I need not that which is not there.

 

Take back your gods and spirits dark…

My brothers/sisters hold my hand…

And joyfully I know, I’m Man!

Reviews

[Baby Ricochet]

Are Buddhist's Atheists? There's no creator in their Religion. Is it a religion if there's no deity? Christians will tell you there's only one God yet they have three of them. The Father, the son and the holy ghost. If you have a problem a lot of Christians will say "pray about it." That sounds a lot like "Don't do diddly s**t" Jehovah's Witness families won't let their kids watch Sesame street because they believe the muppet that teaches kids basic math "the Count" is satanic. Does that mean math is satanic? If there was a great flood how did Noah build a boat with non electrical hand tools large enough to keep the predators away from the smorgasbord of live flesh that would have been penned up all over his boat? Some predators (like Honey Badgers and wolves) are really smart and quite adept at getting in and out of enclosed pens. If god created the cosmos in six days was he using the Roman calander to schedule his time and why has he been ignoring us for thousands of years now? Is he in an alternate universe and his cell phone plan doesn't provide coverage to this universe? What in the hell is wrong with these people?

[Marie]

Buddhists are not atheists; they are probably the most religious people alive. History teaches us there was a great flood. The Bible attemts to explain things in the only way people had back then. Fanatics take the Bible literally. My own sister is a Creationist, and I have no idea why. She was brought up by a very intelligent woman and an agnostic, and has two skeptical sisters...

[Marie]

This sounds like a humanist, not necessarily an athiest. Very tood, strong poem.

[Scribblerlarry]

We atheists are often humanists though I wouldn't label myself such. I find it amusing that people so often claim certain characteristics for themselves or assign them to certain others without realizing that any - or all - of us may have any characteristic at all. I cannot assign the term 'evil' to every capitalist or communist or even every person who was a Nazi. Some are/were; some are/were not.

[Marie]

Well, atheists cancertainly be humanists, and vice versa. The terms are certainly inclusive...

[Scribblerlarry]

Marie,
The terms are not exclusive of each other - an atheist can be a humanist and vice versa - but there is nothing requiring that one be the other also. I class myself as a skeptical atheist, not a humanist. I say, "I don't believe there is a god, and have seen no evidence of one." Other atheists say, "I believe there is no god." If you look carefully you will see that my position is a lack of belief while the other one is a belief. To me there is little difference between a belief in a god and a belief that there is no god. Both are unfounded beliefs.

I have no beliefs at all. If you say to me that there is a god, my response is, "You made the claim, you prove it true." I do not have to prove it not true. Just as I don't have to disprove someone's claim that there is a tooth fairy or that there is a santa. I am free to not believe until solid evidence is put before me.
;-)

[Marie]

Well I know there's a santa, and I don't have to prove it to anybody...

[Scribblerlarry]

If only those with such "knowledge" of gods would not be quite so enthusiastic about killing we who don't have it. Thirteen nations now have the death penalty for atheism. In some American states an atheist cannot run for public office and in one state a person cannot testify in a court of law if he/she is an atheist. I suspect that the death penalty is not far behind in that poor benighted nation.

[Marie]

Well it doesn't pay to be an Athiest, does it?

[Scribblerlarry]

That's true; I know of no atheists who have sucked the kind of money out of people that the evangelists do! But then one does not chose to be an atheist. Isn't it odd how those who espouse the kind, gentle, loving religions are always the first to put to death any who don't believe as they do? I prefer honesty to hypocrisy.

[Marie]

So do I. Although I don't think Buddhists are inclined to put people to death.

[Scribblerlarry]

But then Buddhists aren't inclined to have deities either, are they? Did you ever notice that all those biblical massacres seem to have been ordered by that "loving god" them folks is always on about?

Women and kids, farm stock, and even the doggone trees & bushes seem to have been targets that their big fellow ordered killed. Me.... I'd just tell him to do his own freakin' dirty work.

Even at the tender age of 12, I was in trouble with the priests for asking why it is that an all powerful god needs to send out "good decent people" to kill his enemies.

[Marie]

Actually, you're supposed to skip over that part of it. In other words, believe the Bible, but be selective...

I could get in lots of trouble, except that I'm so cute...

[Scribblerlarry]

Yeah, and I'm to forget about the thousands and thousands of pages that got left out! Oh yes! And the hundreds that got invented and stuck in! It takes a certain kind of self mind-conditioning for adults to get their minds around it all. If it weren't for the mind-conditioning they get as kids, I doubt that they'd be able to force themselves to believe.

And that's only the christian "truth"; then comes hundreds more!! It has often been pointed out that, "there are thousands of gods that christians don't believe in and atheists just go one god further."

[Marie]

Fortunately for me, I've always been the White Queen in "Alice in Wonderland." She could believe "six impossible things before breakfast"...and so can I...

[Scribblerlarry]

A necessary talent if one is to be religious or to take politicians seriously. ;-)
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[Scribblerlarry]

........and a ❤️ Happy 💞 Valentine's 💚 Day to ya!!💙

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