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Infinity Broken
February 5, 1992

what is it that we all reach out to
that which we cut ourselves with with
flagellation turned religion
and many beatings every time
and what of this religion preaching pain
offering no cure but for man’s word
that harm begets harm and harm atones
that long and hard is the way
and long and hard is the way
wherever is the way

to hurt ourselves for our gods, how pointless
some end will come, mayhap a reckoning, mayhap
but the wrong is not undone – what use crying
driving in the skull plate against granite, thrashing away
nothing is accomplished

the nothing, then, against religion
it can be good to have this place to turn to
somewhere the moral support rides
and god or gods, the pattern is the pattern
my evidence my eyes, my words aside
just another set of words

reparations, bettering injustice – there lies the rub
act heals, guilt halts, act heals, penance halts
this so sick suffering malingering on
when there’s work to be done

think then upon your own teachings, that your act of each day
brings learning on the morrow, repetition of fewer wrongs
harvesting the sorrow, casting it to void, curing the ill
religion is education, faith shattered and rebuilt by fact
guilt cast out

do not jabber of your angry god
I can’t argue your views if so they be
and if irked some day, god will let me know
or strike me down, or do nothing
personification only does so much
your words of your god’s dictum, flailing away
believe what you will, suffer as you like
perhaps unchangeable
but no matter your believes, consider this
can education break faith
can faith so easily broken take religion
can religion shattered break your god
if so, your words are hollow
if not, examine your world

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from Scattered Resistance v5 - Inluminal, released October 20, 2012

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