Atheism In America

The above is meme on a T shirt.
How casual the 'Bro' is on it? What age 
will the male be who is going to say that?

The anonymous author ignorantly paraphrases
the gospels. In Mathew Ch 14 v 22-33 we can read
that Jesus walked on water, and the disciples 
thought he was a ghost, Jesus proved how real
he was by inviting Peter to join him.  
Peter walked with ease as long as he
avoided all thoughts about the weather,
thus illustrating the point about faith
being about aim and intent more than
faith being about concentration on the means.
    
Peter nearly fell, but didn't. I respect technology
but with having had one billionaire buy his place
in space, all such travel proves to me is how far
 the love of money can get a person in America. 
  

 

A Life Of Two Halves?

The person I trust most in this life
has a misanthropists outlook
where with consistent rigour
he finds the worst in human behaviour
and sees it as if it were the norm.

Half the time I know he is right,
I accept the same media as him,
along with some sources he refuses,
and what he believes is easily confirmed.

The rest of the time I accept
that I try to be a qualified optimist,
where the limiting parameters
of my optimism are limiting indeed.

I don't know which half is truer
or precisely where in me
the divider between the two lands.
What I settle for is that at my best
I create around me and a sustainable life
that allows for others to be both chippy*
or happy, and accepts that others are entitled
to find life in the depths of despair.

Between the extremes
I would like to be their escape
from the depths of human hypocrisy
when life Fucking Well hurts,
particularly when others say
that the hurt 'is healing and wholesome'.

*as in 'having a chip on his shoulder'
-a sense of guilt or the fear
of having stolen something,
the chip being a piece of wood
that at a chippie/carpenter steals
from their employer.