Mental Health Writings: Another Original Poetic Contribution of Mine to the Discussion of "Spirituality"

 

SO WHAT IS SPIRITUALITY?

by

George Fish

 

It is Torquemada;

and it is

Catholic priest-pedophilia,

and its even more foul

and disgusting

deliberate cover-up.

It is the idiotic and senile

Pat Robertson

spewing his vile,

vitriolic drivel

over the TV airwaves.

It is persecuting Galileo

and burning Giordano

Bruno at the stake

for teaching as supposed

heresy that which

modern science now affirms,

and affirms with deep conviction.

It is burning alleged witches

alive, along with supposed

heretics and homosexuals.

It is what Enda Kenney,

Prime Minister of

overwhelmingly Catholic

Ireland, sick and tired

of Vatican obstruction,

called out as the

Catholic Church’s

culture of “disconnect,

dysfunction, narcissism

and elitism.”

It is constantly haranguing

people about abortion,

birth control, and the mores

of allegedly “proper and

improper” sexual intimacy

in sharing love with those

whom they specially care about,

regardless of sexual orientation.

It is being constant genital police,

a special inquisitorial office

reserved notably

for celibate old males.

It is all these, and more—

or less, as it is

so profoundly

anti-human,

inhumane,

and just plain abusive.

"Christians, Have Mercy!"--a Poem on Christian Love and "Immoral" Atheism

This poem was also formally rejected, but as with "Rubicon," I believe it too good not to be published.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!