MYSTERY

are you religious?
there goes that question again
that ever-so-simple yes-no question
with the ever-so-long-winded answer
requiring first of all a definition of terms
what the questioner usually means is:
are you a christian?
whatever that means exactly
in our this modern secular age
for judging by the respective claims and actions of people in this country
there must be a lot of camels
struggling to fit through the eyes of needles
are you religious?
a pretty nonsensical question
if ya stop and think about it
for aren't we all religious?
doesn't everybody have some kind of provisional answer
to his or her place in the universe?
however vague or undeveloped
even if that provisional answer
consists of rejecting the existence of god
arriving at the terrifying conclusion
that life has no purpose or meaning
beyond pleasure-seeking
desire-satisfying
consuming n shopping till ya drop...
the great debate still seems to rage out there
the two pillars
the twin dogmas
which the high priests of their respective temples do tenaciously defend
in the blue corner the darwinistas
dawkins and co
with their big bangs
their matters & anti-matters
their creatures crawling out of the primordial sludge
their theories of natural selection
the survival of the fittest
the lucky elephants/giraffes
which randomly grew long noses/necks
and prospered
and their less fortunate regular guy relatives
who sadly fell into decline
monkeys sitting at typewriters banging out shakespeare plays
eiffel towers forged miraculously from piles of scrap metal
hairy apes metamorphing into humans
(except for the ones to be found in the white house
and on the streets of birmingham)
so the darwinistas fail to cut it with the hows
and they don't even begin to explore the whys
hmmmm...
and in the red corner
the creationistas
those intelligent designers
marvelling at the world god created in six days
full of their tales of adam n eve
and the serpent that did beguile em
naughty eve and her bite of the apple
the expulsion from the garden
so far so good
but who or what was it
that created god and satan in the first place?
there is a tad more of the why here
but the how ain't at all convincing
hmmmm...
i'm afraid this debate doesn't do it for me
neither pugilist is up to the task
neither opponent has sufficient marston's pedigree
fireseed still musing
fireseed still scratching under the surface
still looking for answers
still trying to fathom the eternal mystery