When someone asks if I believe in God
I tell them I just disbelieve
in one more god than they do
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Bartholomew Barker, Poet 
Profoundly clever, once again, this is good! Love the picture too! 😇
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Thank you! I tried to find a nice uplifting photo for my fraiku.
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Nice✨
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Merci!
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Do you remember an Irish comedian – Dave Allen – who finished his set with the words “May your God go with you.”
He observed humanity, with kindliness – as you do, Bartholomew.
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This guy is great!
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I remember Dave Allen! Here in the States they put his show on right after Monty Python.
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Clever!
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Thanks!
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Oo, what clever wordplay! I was not expecting the final line and love the way it changes the overall poem.
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Thanks! I like my haiku to have a “pop” at the end.
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clever :) i’m somewhat surprised some theist isn’t here having a hissy fit since you reveal that they are atheists too.
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I applied some tags and that inspirational image in hopes of getting a few theist readers. Ah well. Maybe they’ll comment after church today.
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Hmmmm – now then – I wasn’t going to present this idea, as I thought – well, if he simply doesn’t ‘believe’, he simply doesn’t ‘believe’ – his choice. But, seeing the last couple of comments, and being a generally disputive sort – I think I will……
How do you, and your readers respond to those who ‘believe’ in all the ‘Gods’ – that God is in everything?
That how I see it…..absolutely everything.
Something of this, here….. https://theorkneynews.scot/2017/11/13/how-i-see-the-whole-life-lovelightgodreiki-etc-etc-thing/
I see it my way, you see it yours – I only got on my hind legs when folk started being a bit snarky about people who have beliefs. It’s true that some of those have done and are doing a lot of harm – others – have their beliefs and their beliefs help them in their lives, while not bothering anyone.
A big subject for discussion, which is why I wasn’t going to present my view, but then……
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That’s fine. As you wrote, your belief in “God in everything” probably doesn’t do much harm to yourself or others but it’s probably untrue and so your worldview is thus slightly inaccurate. I just believe that an accurate worldview is preferable to an inaccurate one.
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Phew-eeee – that’s telling me – ain’t it!
And you’re so sure you have an accurate worldview? Back to your poem, Bart.
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I’m sure there are inaccuracies in my worldview but I fix them when I find them.
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