HAMAS a terror group based on extreme religious views and hate.
ISREAL a fascist government led by religious extremists and hate.
Decades of suppression. Decades of religious fanaticism. Decades of brainwashing. Decades of arrogance. Decades of abuse. Decades of violence. Decades of robbery.
War death and terror!!
When will these idiots ever sit down and work out a sensible solution?? Seventy odd years of stupidity and arrogance, intransigence and nasty racist crap requires intelligence, compassion and understanding; requires compromise and understanding.
The Savagery
The savagery man is capable of
When he believes his cause to be just.
There is no end to his barbarity
When devoured by this lust.
His arrogance breeds belligerence
That leads all the way to war.
His intolerance destroys empathy
To shake morality to the core.
All it takes is outrage,
Religious fanaticism or political zeal.
A charismatic leader’s inspiration
Sparking the reason to kill.
Placing nails inside a bomb.
Slicing off heads with a knife.
Massacring the innocent.
Rewarded with paradise or a child wife.
All in the name of someone’s god
Or a fanatical leader.
Become a torturer
Or propaganda breeder.
It does not take much
To release the savage hate.
A traumatic death
Or promise of a better fate.
Opher – 18.5.2021
I was watching the hatred being stirred up in the Middle East as the Israelis and Palestinians clash.
The rockets soar and the guns crash.
The martyred are used to enrage.
Years and years of humiliations, degradation and abuse.
The evil scum of Hamas harvest that hate and hone it into a weapon. The fanatical Jews treat the Palestinians as sub-humans and seek to kick them out.
Illegal settlements, rocks, knifings and bombs.
What a senseless world we create for ourselves. Rationality goes out the window.
Prehistoric policing
Put on your veil!
Pray each day
And obey without ceasing!
Or else
You’ll be subject to
Prehistoric policing!
Read the scripture!
Follow the dogma!
Not to do so is a sin!
If you do not
You’ll be hammered with
Prehistoric policing!
Do not question
The tenets of faith!
Throw all logic in the bin!
Faith is not rational.
It needs to be enforced
With prehistoric policing!
Opher – 2.11.2019
I was driven to write this poem by a video clip of a poor woman who was shot through the head for going to the market without her veil. The Nazi religious police stopped her, beat her and forced her to her knees. They recited verse, gathered a crowd, put a gun to her head and blew her brains out – all because her face was not covered.
Across the world millions of women and children are subject to prehistoric policing. They are forced to spend hours memorising scripture. They are forced to wear heavy robes and full face veils.
This is not religious freedom. This is slavery.
These religious fanatics create a fascist tyranny! Their misogynistic view of religion is draconian and prehistoric.
Religion should be a matter of choice – not coercion.
The other side of Cambodia was Pol Pot and the years of the Kmer Rouge, genocide, tyranny and terror.
No trip to Cambodia is complete without a visit to The Killing Fields and torture camps.
In the interrogation centre S21 12000 people were horribly tortured and murdered in the name of fanatical politics.
It’s a warning to us all.
The Cambodian people were so kind and friendly. It’s impossible to imagine how they could become such monsters. But they did become heartless monsters. They rounded up all the intelligentsia, all the teachers, the doctors, the professors, the scientists – anybody with a shred of intelligence. They took them off to the killing fields and worked them to death. They took them to the torture camps, tortured them mercilessly and killed them.
It could happen anywhere.
Seemed appropriate with the Taliban taking over Afghanistan!! I feel so sorry for the women – back to being slaves.
Medieval
Medieval customs;
Beliefs passed down from ages past.
Medieval costumes:
From the splendid to absurd.
Medieval superstition;
Posing as the rational.
From the Dark Ages
Into the darkness of thought.
Shackling our breath
To a system that counts for nought.
Medieval thoughts
From medieval minds
Masqueradinf as sense.
Medieval values
From prescientific times
From there to thence.
Mass hallucinations
Reinforcing a multitude of sins.
Opher – 28.12.2018
I wrote this a year ago for all those who follow fundamentalist religions. Their intolerance is abhorrent. Their intransigence is exclusive.
They seem stuck firmly in the ancient past. They need to move on.
What Would You die for?
What would you die for?
What is worth your Life?
It’s your testimony.
Is it love or is it greed?
Is it the truth?
Or just baloney?
Is there a cause that is worthy?
That does not rust in the wind and rain?
Is there a praiseworthy belief
That charismatic leaders won’t flush down the drain?
Opher 22.3.2021
The deepest and most sincere beliefs are twisted out of shape by men with ulterior motives, who seek to use it to gain power, influence and wealth.
What dream is ever pure?
What philosophy can one base a life on that is not debased and sullied by grubby hands.
How much violence, fear and tyranny have been unleashed in the search for a better world?
How much blood is spilt by the well-meaning?
Whatever it is you believe, no matter how pure and beautiful, there is always someone who will twist it and use it against you to create something sullied, sordid and grotesque for their own ends.
Once more crazed brainwashed psychopaths kill innocent people in the name of God.
It leaves me thinking a bundles of things:
Firstly great sadness for the people involved – the traumatised people who were caught up in it, the poor terrified child of the murdered police officer and his wife, the terrified and wounded, and the parents and relatives whose lives will never be the same again.
I can’t imagine the horror of losing one of mine.
The great sickness that convinces people that they are carrying out the instructions of some supernatural being by killing innocent people.
The sickness that convinces anyone that there is only one true way to believe and live.
The arrogance, mindlessness and waste of a life spent in brainless worship.
The stupidity of people. I walk past people dressed in all manner of weird clothes and hairstyles, fasting, eating certain foods, avoiding certain foods, and carrying out all fashion of prayers and ceremonies because they believe ‘their’ God has demanded it. It looks insane to me. What has any of that got to do with some creator? Why would any sane god make such demands or choose one set of people over another? Senseless.
Yet these insane people who carry out atrocities believe that by killing innocent people, who just happen to believe or live differently to them, they will wake up in paradise. There is no end to the way people delude themselves.
These murderers have lost their compassion and humanity. They are so wrong. No sane god would reward brutality.
My best wishes go out to the families and friends of the murdered people in Orlando, Paris, Belgium, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, Libya, Sudan, Egypt and wherever these religious fanatics have wrought their evil.
It makes me wish there were a god to punish those evil perpetrators. As there isn’t we shall have to do it ourselves. I salute the people who are working hard on intelligence work to keep us safe and the police and army who are protecting us.
My wish is that one day soon humanity might wake up from this primitive superstition and become civilised. We need to leave religion behind in the dark ages and progress into a higher kind of spirituality.
Music is no good
I am happy if anyone else wants to live in the seventh century. I am happy for them to live in whatever costume they like and to apply their own laws as long as I am free to have my say, and that they don’t indoctrinate children, or practice inequality and intolerance.
I despise the blind hatred and psychopathy that is fundamentalism.
I want to live in peace and harmony without constraint.
If there was a god who sanctioned rape, torture and ritual slaughter then I would be forced to oppose him.
This universe is too awesome to have been created by a psychopathic deity.
I love this world – its colour, life and beauty. I love literature, art, poetry, dance, drama and music. I love diversity, love, friendship and fun. I am an individual. I will not be bound, shackled or made to follow any doctrine not of my choice.
I love life.
I do not love death.
Music is no good
Music is no good
Science is no good
Thinking is no good
What is wrong with being free?
Women are no good
Freedom is no good
Dance is no good
What is wrong with freedom?
Film is no good
Other religion is no good
Fun is no good
I will fight to be free.
Love is no good
Individuality is no good
TV is no good
Freedom is a cherished belief.
When good is no good there is a cause.
Opher 14.11.2015
The whole spectre of suicide bombings, religious fanaticism and violence has taken on a greater and greater significance.
the extremists seem to be pushing for an all-out war with the West. It is a clash of ideologies. They want to impose their religious beliefs on the world. They see it as a battle between Islam and Christianity.
I do not see it that way at all. For centuries Muslims and Christians and Jews have lived together in harmony. Every now and then a fanatical element, or politically inspired prejudice, or seeker of power, uses the religious card to further their ends.
We have to put the present situation in context with the past.
There is a battle going on. It is between the people who wish to live in a world of diversity and harmony, where all people’s views are respected and we learn to accept our differences, or a world of fundamental intolerance.
I know which I would fight for.
This poem was written from the perspective of a bomber who woke up to the fact that he was being used and was merely a pawn in a power struggle.
Bullshit
They told me I’d go to heaven
When I strapped on that bomb
That paradise would be mine
And everything would be fine
In the bus on the way to market
Fidgeting with my change
Cherishing each second and trying to mark it
As the end comes into range
They said there was no other way
It was hidden in the genes
To draw attention to the day
The end justifies the means
But I’ve thought about it
And I’ve weighed up the blend
There is only ever just the means
And there never is an end.
Opher 11.3.96
