Not having written a poem for, oh, 30 years maybe I felt compelled to write an Atheist Prayer. I'd appreciate some help in fine-tuning it a bit:
My Atheist Prayer
God, save us from those who believe in you.
May I learn how little I know
May I use science to always discover truth
May I not stand in the way of another's dreams
May they not stand in the way of mine
May I know, when I die, I did my best
May I leave the world, a better place
To where I go I do not know
But I trust
Heaven, is for atheists.
Purposely, it does not rhyme to thumb my nose at the teacher in 8th grade who told me that all poems had to!
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I like the poem, but I prefer Zelazny's Agnostic's prayer:
Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen.
http://www.gregroelofs.com/humor/zelazny_agnostic.html
LOL, that must have been written by a lawyer!
Zelazny was a Sci-fi writer. I think the quote is from Creatures of light and darkness
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