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“Someday we will all have to confront the notion that
our silly gods cost the world too greatly.” Maher at the Academy Awards
You’ve got to hand it to that TV raconteur - Bill Maher
With a modicum of talent -- the man’s gone pretty far
Yet, as often is the case with big league mediocrities
They start to think they know it all – and curse whoever disagrees
Now Bill, in all his wisdom, does not believe in God
And that unto itself is not particularly odd
Except he has developed this contempt for those who do --
The unenlightened faithful -- the flocks without a clue
So Billy at the Oscars, confident, with millions watching --
And sure that true believers are like hicks who go Sasquatching,
Bravely takes the microphone, and speaking to these clods
Informs them that it’s high time that they dumped their silly gods
That’s right – that’s absolutely right - belief in God is silly
The world would be a better place (thus so sayeth Billy)
If we recognized that we are worshiping a lie
If we understood that “this is it” – and then we die
But out there in the wide wide world are those Bill disregards
People who’ve been dealt such truly tough hard-scrabble cards
That whatever hopes they have are couched in ardent prayers
That one fine day some better place will finally be theirs
And people who believe their living should forever be
Guided by some higher, more divine authority
And who believe they must adhere to those much higher laws
And not be grasping at some senate’s ever-changing straws
So, Willy, here’s to “live and let live”, and to the midnight sky
And to our spirits’ mutual blind spot:
I, for all my faith, will never prove there’s more than meets the eye
And you, for all your science – will never prove there's not
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