This poem was also formally rejected, but as with "Rubicon," I believe it too good not to be published. I think it is quite effective as a poem, notably with its use of change of voice, and the ironic humor. Also, as an atheist and ex-Catholic, the subject matter is indeed close to my heart--GF
CHRISTIANS, HAVE
MERCY!
by
George Fish
Show a little of that
vaunted Christian love,
that “love thy neighbor
as thyself” feeling—
especially toward us
“immoral” atheists!
Please realize just how
hard we “immoral”
atheists have it:
after a hard day of
raping, robbing,
pillaging and murdering,
the only way we atheists
can relax in the evening
is through wild drug and
sex orgies, until we finally
get some sleep by passing
out in a drug-and-alcohol-
induced stupor! Damn it,
we’re so busy in the daytime
raping, robbing, pillaging
and murdering we barely
have time for lunch—all we
can do is grab a baby to eat
while on the run! Please!
It just ain’t that easy being
sleazy!
And besides, surely
you Christians yourselves
know something about
moral sleaze—after all,
you’ve practiced it regularly
for two millennia to date,
and still counting! You’re
the ones who burnt people
alive for allegedly being
witches, heretics, or homosexuals,
you’re the ones responsible for the
ecclesiastical murder of Giordano
Bruno and the persecution of Galileo,
not to mention the infamous
Magdalene laundries in Ireland,
or the mass graves of Indigenous
children in Canadian schools
run “for” them by the
Catholic Church, which even
Pope Francis couldn’t bring
himself to fully apologize for!
You’re also the ones who gave us
Catholic priest-pedophilia and its
deliberate cover-up by bishops and
cardinals, “Prosperity Gospel”
hucksters like Joel Osteen and
Creflo Dollar, venomous hate
preachers such as Pat Robertson
and Jerry Falwell, and the
Christian Nationalist zealots who
rally around “I’m proud to be a
Christian” Donald Trump, with his
three wives and two divorces, his
“grab ‘em by the pussy” rhetoric,
and his notably—Stormy—relationships
with women! And the list goes on
and on—and on! Yet, you Christians accuse
us, the atheists, of being the “immoral”
ones!
Have you tried looking in the mirror
sometimes, Christians? Try it.
That’s
where you’ll find the “immorality” you
think is everywhere under the Goddamn sun,
lurking under each and every secular bed,
hiding in each promiscuously tolerant
nook and cranny!
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