Religion is Rebellion

Religion is rebellion,

Against common sense

And indifference,

Rebellion against apathy and sin,

Unkindness, selfishness and the urge to just win,

Rebellion against rebellion,

For heaven's sake,

Rebellion against a nature,

Which wants to just take,

Rebellion against a nature that wants to just sit,

A nature that wants love,

But fails to give it,

Fails to give,

What it needs to receive,

Fails to sow, 

So never harvests the seed,

Religion is rebellion,

Fuck what they say,

Religion looks after children,

The safe and the stray,

And widows and wrinklies,

It looks to all life,

Religion, as God sees it, 
Rebels against appetite,

A rebellion that begins,

In the heart of the unloved,

Rebellion that pays out,

When push comes to shove.



M. Joseph Burt (10.09.07)