The Apostates' Creed

I don't believe in God or the World he created
I don't believe in Jesus Christ or the Devil that he hated
I don't believe in Jews, the Sabbath, or the Law
I don't believe in Muslims, Muhammed, or Fatwa
I don't believe in Hindus, not Kali or Vishnu
I don't believe in Buddhists, nor Nirvana too
I don't believe in in the Tao--I know there is no Way
I don't believe in the Sun--nor druids passed away.

I don't believe in race, not black not white not red
I don't believe in countries or the nations in your head
I don't believe in Africans, Americans, or Europeans
I don't believe in Australians, Asians, no--not even
Arabs, Jews, Germans, French, Irish, British,
Hutus, Tutsis, Zulus, Chinese, Japanese, or Turkish

I don't believe in capitalists, communists, or anarchists
I don't believe in socialists, isolationists, or universalists
I don't believe in police, I don't believe in gangs
I don't believe in drugs, and not in abstinence
I don't believe in sex, and I don't believe in love
I don't believe that there are answers found above
I don't believe in rock and roll--it won't save a soul
I don't believe in Beatles, John Lennon, or Rolling Stones
I don't believe in Shakespeare, or the con that they call theater
I don't believe in poetry, and no, not in art either

I don't believe in you, and I don't believe in me
I don't believe in illusion, nor in reality
I don't believe in anything, except nothing in excess
I don't believe in nothing, I don't believe in rest.

--Good Friday, 2002


As noders have been asking, yes, I did write this. I wrote it today at @ 2:30 pm EST while sitting at my kitchen table, watching CNN. If you dislike rhyming pseudo-poetry, that's OK. If you dislike nihilism, that's OK. If you dislike me, that's OK. If you dislike what I have to say, that's OK.


Three C!s and at negative rep. Interesting.

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