Only a Fool ....

As I tend to share some quotes from my work, I thought I would
 share this one from my latest novel, Vocation of a Gadfly 


It is a poem called 'Dixit Insipiens'.

Only a fool says in his heart

There is no Creator, no King of kings,

Only mules would dare to bray

These lethal mutterings.

Over darkened minds as these

The Darkness bears full sway,

Fruitless, yet, bearing fruit,

In their fell, destructive way.

Sterile, though proliferate,

A filthy progeny sees the day,

When Evil, Thought and Action mate:

Breeding sin, rebels and decay.

The blackest deeds and foul ideals,

Multiply throughout the earth,

Through deadened, lifeless, braying souls,

The Darkness labours and gives birth.

Taking the Lord’s abundant gifts

And rotting them to the core,

They dress their dish and serve it out

Foul seeds to infect thousands more.

‘The Tree of Life is dead!’ they cry,

‘And that of Knowledge not enough,

Let us glut on the ashen apples

Of Sodom and Gomorrah.’

Have pity on Thy children, Lord,

Left sorrowing on this earth,

While fools and all their kindred

Cast shadows with their murk,

And to the dwindling wise,

They toss their heads and wryly smirk.

The world daily grinds to dust

Virtue’s fair unicorns,

Rather, it would now beget

Vice’s mutant manticores.

Wisdom crushed, our joy is gone,

Buried under anxious fears

For lost rights and freedoms,

We shed many bitter tears.

Death is life, Life is no more,

Humanity buried in a tomb,

In a fatal prenatal world

Where tiny flowers

Are ripped from the womb,

Discarded, thrown away,

Inconvenient lives

That barely bloomed.

Our elders fare no better,

Their wisdom unwanted by and by,

Boarded out to end their days,

And forsaken are left to die.

Only the youthful and the useful,

In this capital age prosper and fly.

Yet, they too are quickly strangled,

Before their future plans are met,

Professions legally pre-enslaved

Held bound by mounting student debt.

Our leaders all harangue for peace

Yet perpetrate the horror,

Of economic greed shored up

Through manufactured war.

Our armies now welter

In foreign civilian gore.

How many of our kin are slain

For hollow martial honour?

As if we could forget, ignore,

The scourge of nuclear power,

Alas, victors are rarely tried

For their woeful crimes of war.

Hope and pray we never see

A repeat of Hiroshima.

No more!

Crimes are legion,

The deeds of devil-spawn!

What has happened to the souls

Your Divine Image was minted on?

They are now recast:

Crooked coins of Caesar and

The Whore of Babylon.

How often mankind shuts its ears

To Your music celestial,

Mankind would rather march

To the anthems of Hell.

If humanity cannot be reclaimed

By Your Mercy and great Love

Deservedly we should be struck

By Vengeance from above.

Many dread the Final Day,

And the Crack of Doom

For others the Apocalypse

Will never come too soon.

‘Lift up your heads, be glad’,

Fools shall bray no more

For at last the Master comes

To thresh His threshing floor.

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An Eye-Opening Prayer by a Fifteen Year Old

(Post originally published February 25, 2012)

Despite what my blog is called, I'm not offering “blarney” today.

This poetic prayer was allegedly composed by a fifteen year old student who wished to remain anonymous, which is a shame as they certainly deserve credit for this poignant critique of how the once-honoured values of our country have been overturned for one nation under a licentious police state with liberty and justice for some as displayed in the school system these days. If the children of the nation are our future, God help us!

"Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule,
For this great nation under God
Finds mention of Him very odd.
If Scripture now the class recites,
It violates the Bill of Rights,
And any time my head I bow,
Becomes a Federal matter now.
Our hair can be purple, orange or green,
That's no offence; it's a freedom scene.
The law is specific, the law is precise,
Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.
For praying in a public hall
Might offend someone with no faith at all.
In silence alone we must meditate,
God's name is prohibited by State.
We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,
And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks.
They've outlawed guns, but first the Bible,
To quote the Good Book makes me liable.
We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,
And the unwed daddy our Senior King.
It's 'inappropriate' to teach right from wrong,
We're taught that such 'judgements' do not belong.
We can get our condoms and birth control,
Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles,
But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,
No Word of God must reach this crowd.
It's scary here I must confess,
When chaos reigns, the school's a mess.
So, Lord, this silent plea I make,
Should I be shot, my soul please take!
     Amen."

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A Pathetic Demise to a Brilliant Career?

(Post originally published September 5, 2003)

 Recently, the famous theoretical physicist Steven Hawking announced he had changed his mind about the existence of God and claims in so many words that He does not exist.

Before I wrote a counterargument to his theory, of course, I would have to read what his theories were in the first place, so I discovered the following Press Release published by Reuters and posted on Yahoo news: 

Yahoo Press Release: 

  “By Michael Holden Michael Holden – Thu Sep 2, 9:08 am ET

LONDON (Reuters) – God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.

In "The Grand Design," co-authored with U.S. physicist Leonard Mlodinow, Hawking says a new series of theories made a creator of the universe redundant, according to the Times newspaper which published extracts on Thursday.

"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," Hawking writes.

"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."

Hawking, 68, who won global recognition with his 1988 book "A Brief History of Time," an account of the origins of the universe, is renowned for his work on black holes, cosmology and quantum gravity.

Since 1974, the scientist has worked on marrying the two cornerstones of modern physics -- Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which concerns gravity and large-scale phenomena, and quantum theory, which covers subatomic particles.

His latest comments suggest he has broken away from previous views he has expressed on religion. Previously, he wrote that the laws of physics meant it was simply not necessary to believe that God had intervened in the Big Bang.

He wrote in A Brief History ... "If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason -- for then we should know the mind of God."

In his latest book, he said the 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting another star other than the Sun helped deconstruct the view of the father of physics Isaac Newton that the universe could not have arisen out of chaos but was created by God.

"That makes the coincidences of our planetary conditions -- the single Sun, the lucky combination of Earth-Sun distance and solar mass, far less remarkable, and far less compelling evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings," he writes.

Hawking, who is only able to speak through a computer-generated voice synthesizer, has a neuro muscular dystrophy that has progressed over the years and left him almost completely paralyzed.

He began suffering the disease in his early 20s but went on to establish himself as one of the world's leading scientific authorities, and has also made guest appearances in "Star Trek" and the cartoons "Futurama" and "The Simpsons."

Last year he announced he was stepping down as Cambridge University's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a position once held by Newton and one he had held since 1979.

"The Grand Design" is due to go on sale next week.

(Editing by Steve Addison)”