I Am a Skeptic

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Yup, another poem. I figured...what the hey. :)

Music by Kevin MacLeod: http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/index.html
Used with permission

I am a skeptic
Do you know what one is?
Don't worry; I'll just tell you
This isn't a quiz.

A skeptic is someone
Who won't just believe;
One who wants to make sure
Nothing's hidden up your sleeve.
A skeptic insists there be
Reason and facts
That support someone's premise
Before they'll relax.
A skeptic doesn't say, "No,
I refuse to believe!"
Instead they say, "Convince me,
with evidence, please!"

This is why a skeptic
Could never be in the church
Because their insistence on faith
Leaves one in the lurch.
It tells you to settle
For insufficient data
And you won't get the answers
Until much, much, much later;
You know...like when you die
And go to paradise.
(Which I don't think exists,
But hey, it might be nice!)
Anything that might tell us
Whether god really exists
Is hidden by faith
Clouded in its mists.
No skeptic could ever
Agree there's a god
So long as the evidence
Is shrouded in fog.

But if you can show one
Something tangible and certain
Instead of playing faith games
Doing your best at divertin'
Our attention from reason,
Evidence, and logic
With insistence of existence
Bordering on demagogic,
You'll have the skeptic
In the palm of your hand
Because you've brought authenticity
To your theistic brand.

With regard to religion
What makes me most suspicious
Is how faith is espoused
By the most credulous and vicious.
As a skeptic, I can't see
How faith is a virtue
Belief without evidence
Makes me pooh-pooh
The premise under question
And with legitimate grounds
Belief-without-proof just goes
Straight out of bounds!

So when you've got facts to show
To prove there's a god
Come get me, and show me
With no clouding facade.
And I'll be here waiting
Until you can make that link,
Not running on automatic
So, instead, I can think.

Thank you.

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[confrontig]

Enjoyed this.

[BionicDance]

@confrontig Glad. :)

[kesav1985]

I LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUR ideas. :)

[BionicDance]

@kesav1985 Aww, thanks! :)

[BionicDance]

@tinydx95t2 Have you actually READ scripture? Forcing it on others--and being royal jerks about various things like, say, homosexuality--is written right into scripture, it's part of the religion. In fact, if you're not doing those things, you're not Doing it Right™.

And if you're happy, but not following the religion, you're allegedly going to be TORTURED FOR ETERNITY.

And religion ALSO gets science wrong, then makes it dogma that you have to get it wrong TOO.

Do you REALLY not see the problem?

[Quintinohthree]

You're getting better, and you didn't start bad either.

[Green01123Gold]

do u play RuneScape?? :D

[SuperMemzzz]

That planet looks like Eternia a bit!

[ResignedRationalist]

Smurf poetry fail @ 0:28. Couldn't take it.

[Hammerfall3141]

Great video. I really like this one.

[BionicDance]

@TheAtheistPaladin Or by HAVING them pegged.

By diseased albino midgets.

[TheAtheistPaladin]

@BionicDance

Oh that is the only way your interested in guys, eh? By pegging them?