A Poem

I moderated a debate last night entitled Are Morals without God a Delusion? (see the video above) I wrote this poem this morning after hearing the atheist try to defend Godless morality.

The Emperors New Clothes

Yes, we atheists condemn the Holocaust
And rape and child abuse
(but our morality is fashion, feeling and fancy).

Yes, we assert the wrongness of wrong actions,
(but our ethics are evanescent and easy and endlessly evolving).

Yes, we, like you, believe in right conduct, right principles and right values
(but these are bound by culture and climate and calculation).

Yes, we too condemn the Holocaust
(but, please don’t look too closely at our finely woven moral apparel or our impressive attire – for like the Emperors New Clothes – we are really naked).

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For they deny the Source, the Sustainer, the Spirit

They relativise the Absolute

They Absolutise the relative.