The Biblical Creationist’s Song (Repost)

This one's a repost of one I did ages ago, in light of a few readers subscribing after my recent attempts at poetry, as well as a recent very unsatisfactory debate with an apparent creationist elsewhere.

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A Picture Beats A Thousand Words

The article I posted on government subsidies the other day seemed to produce some interest. Well, an enterprising chap, Joé McKen, over at Preliator pro Causa has produced a lovely version in pictorial form. It really does show how simple the idea is.
—Daz

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God’s Checklist

My thanks to reader, Sherryl, who mailed me the link for this. No words from me, as the video speaks eloquently for itself.
—Daz

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Disgust

You open your mouth, spew misogynist crap.
Your gay-bashing keyboard's a constant tap-tap.
Your hate-spitting lips are non-stop a-flap
And you seem to see nothing wrong with that.
But if I say 'fuck' when I answer you back,
I'm disgusting?

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Doc Watson

Just found out via Jerry Coyne's blog web-site, that Doc Watson's died.

I'm not much good at obituaries, so I'll just say that the world will be a tad less beautiful without him in it. We still have his music, though; and if you haven't heard any, I urge you to check him out on YouTube. You won't regret it.

Here's Black Mountain Rag
—Daz

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The Dummy’s Guide To Governmental Subsidy

In One Very Easy Lesson

If you provide a service and wish to take advantage of government grant-schemes or other tax-payer funding, most governments will require you to follow certain government-mandated policies, which they apply to all, whether religious or not, who receive those grants. For instance, an adoption service which takes government funding in the UK cannot refuse to consider gay people's applications to adopt, merely because their religious belief informs them that homosexuality is a sin. In the US, employers must include contraception in health-insurance plans, if they want to take advantage of governmental subsidies regarding health-insurance.

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Neighbourly Love

Another scrap of doggerel today. Yesterday's looked at the way many Christians get all fired up about same-sex marriage, even though Jesus—surely the Biblical figure whose words are most important?—never mentioned homosexuality at all. So now let's turn it around. How do they fare on a subject raised several times by Jesus: the instruction to love thy neighbour as thyself? (I've dealt with this in a little more depth before, though with a slight tongue-in-cheek attitude.)

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Jesus Wept

This is a result of having found a wonderful atheist–humanist poetry-blog just recently, plus having spent much of the day sat in the doorway trying to catch a hint of a cool breeze, in the company of a book of Kipling. That said, neither Rudyard nor Rebecca should be held to blame for what follows. Any lack of quality is purely my own fault.

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The Ascent Of Man

I've got a couple of bits I really want to get to writing, but it's like a damn sauna here today; and I really can't be bothered.

Iiiii'm melllltiiiiing!

So here, in lieu of half-hearted scribbles from myself, is a link (embedding, unfortunately, is disabled) to a playlist of Jacob Bronowski's science/philosophy series, The Ascent Of Man. The whole series, presented in glorious YouTubey scrumptiliciousness, complete with a bonus episode of an interview with David Attenborough, who was controller of BBC2 at the time it was made. What's not to like?
—Daz

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I am awestruck. My struck has seldom been so awed.

Rebecca Rose Poetry

Wrong (again)

“There’s nothing wrong with slavery!” you cried with all your might.
“It’s sanctioned in the Bible!” (And by God, you know, you’re right.)
’Twas tradition that the upper class owned property like slaves.
You treat your blacks quite well, you claimed (as long as they behaved).
But giving slaves their freedom? To treat them just like white?
You cried that it’s not natural! It’s unheard-of! It’s not right!

You explained the color of their skin was proof of lower race.
You held no malice towards them, they just had to know their place.
Slavery was tradition. The way it’d always been.
’Twas written in the Bible, so to change it was a sin!
You thought the color of your skin made you superior,
But the rest of us all saw you as the racist that you were.

With women, you were adamant: they shouldn’t work or vote!
“Women…

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