Creed
by Steve Turner

We believe in Marxfreudanddarwin
We believe everything is OK
as long as you don't hurt anyone
to the best of your definition of hurt,
and to the best of your knowledge.

We believe in sex before, during, and
after marriage.
We believe in the therapy of sin.
We believe that adultery is fun.
We believe that sodomy’s OK.
We believe that taboos are taboo.

We believe that everything's getting better
despite evidence to the contrary.
The evidence must be investigated
And you can prove anything with evidence.

We believe there's something in horoscopes
UFO's and bent spoons.
Jesus was a good man just like Buddha,
Mohammed, and ourselves.
He was a good moral teacher though we think
His good morals were bad.

We believe that all religions are basically the same-
at least the one that we read was.
They all believe in love and goodness.
They only differ on matters of creation,
sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.

We believe that after death comes the Nothing
Because when you ask the dead what happens
they say nothing.
If death is not the end, if the dead have lied, then its
compulsory heaven for all
excepting perhaps
Hitler, Stalin, and Genghis Kahn

We believe in Masters and Johnson
What's selected is average.
What's average is normal.
What's normal is good.

We believe in total disarmament.
We believe there are direct links between warfare and
bloodshed.
Americans should beat their guns into tractors .
And the Russians would be sure to follow.

We believe that man is essentially good.
It's only his behavior that lets him down.
This is the fault of society.
Society is the fault of conditions.
Conditions are the fault of society.

We believe that each man must find the truth that
is right for him.
Reality will adapt accordingly.
The universe will readjust.
History will alter.
We believe that there is no absolute truth
excepting the truth
that there is no absolute truth.

We believe in the rejection of creeds,
And the flowering of individual thought.

He then adds this postcript called 'Chance'.

If chance be
the Father of all flesh,
disaster is his rainbow in the sky
and when you hear

State of Emergency!
Sniper Kills Ten!
Troops on Rampage!
Whites go Looting!
Bomb Blasts School!

It is but the sound of man
worshipping his maker.

Steve Turner, (English journalist), "Creed," his satirical poem on the modern mind. Taken from Ravi Zacharias’ book Can Man live Without God? Pages 42-44

i am enjoying every word of this book! its taken me a long time to read the first 44 pages, but its been worth it (: i really liked 'Creed' - especially the part that says:

We believe that there is no absolute truth
excepting the truth
that there is no absolute truth.

how scathingly ironic to use an argument that there is no absolute truth - the statement itself crumbles without any arguments to the contrary.

i also loved how Ravi Zacharias phrases his argument for God and ethics. he sums it up quite beautifully in this short paragraph:

It is true that not all antitheists are immoral, but the larger point has been completely missed. Antitheism provides every reason to be immoral and is bereft of any objective point of reference with which to condemn any choice. Any antitheist who lives a moral life merely lives better than his or her philosophy warrants. p32 of 'Can man live without God' by Ravi Zacharias

this is proving to be an excellent read. challenging, but definitely worth every minute. (:

i went to help out in crosswalk for the first time after one and a half months of traveling and being away from vic over the weekends, and i am so happy to be back. kids are awesome. hahahah. i was so happy to realise that my little grade ones hadnt forgotten about me and were as sweet and as endearing as i last saw them (:

this past week has been a week of getting into the groove of actual school, of readjusting to not having my friends and family around me after a month and a half of that. and definitely of realising how weak i am and how much more i need to grow. this week i realised that i do not love and trust and depend on Him enough.

this is something i wrote in my journal-

Lord im back at that place again, when im thinking about the kind of woman that You want me to be. You created me in the likeness of You, but im doing such a terrible job. sometimes im such a mess i dont know what to do with myself. how apt that as i thought about proverbs 31, 1 Peter 3:4 popped into my head, and my Bible happens to be turned to 1 Peter.

1 Peter 3:3-4 says "do not let your adornment be merely outward - arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel. rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God."

i always liked that phrase. and incorruptible beauty. a beauty that nothing can defile. women have this obsession with beauty that i cant explain. all women desire to be beautiful. all women desire to be pursued. and if we're not careful, this desire to be needed makes us snappy, unloving, ungracious, un-everything good. sometimes i just wish that i could be a little more gracious, a little more loving, a little more giving, a little more patient, a little less emotional and a little less needy. a little more like that woman of strength and courage i saw in esther. a little more like the woman of love and faithfulness in ruth. a little more like the woman of faith i see in mary. women that didnt need the affirmation or approval of anyone but drew all the good within them from the Only One that we need.

this week i learnt alot about myself. and im hoping and praying that in time some things are gonna change right here in my heart. (: