“Creed” — by Steve Turner

Lis­ten Mp3: Ravi Zacharias’ read­ing of “Creed” by Steve Turner

We believe in Marxfreudanddarwin.
We believe every­thing is OK
as long as you don’t hurt anyone,
to the best of your def­i­n­i­tion of hurt,
and to the best of your def­i­n­i­tion of knowledge.

We believe in sex before, during,
and after marriage.
We believe in the ther­a­py of sin.
We believe that adul­tery is fun.
We believe that sodomy is OK
We believe that taboos are taboo.

We believe that every­thing’s get­ting better
despite evi­dence to the contrary.
The evi­dence must be inves­ti­gat­ed, and
you can prove any­thing with evidence.

We believe there’s some­thing in horoscopes,
UFO’s and bent spoons;
Jesus was a good man just like Buddha,
Mohammed, and ourselves.
He was a good moral teacher although we think some
his good morals were bad.

We believe that all reli­gions are basi­cal­ly the same;
at least the one that we read were.
They all believe in love and goodness.
They only dif­fer on mat­ters of creation,
sin, heav­en, hell, God, and salvation.

We believe that after death comes The Nothing
because when you ask the dead what hap­pens they say Nothing.
If death is not the end, if the dead have lied,
then it’s com­pul­so­ry heav­en for all
except­ing per­haps Hitler, Stal­in and Genghis Khan.

We believe in Mas­ters and Johnson.
What’s select­ed is average.
What’s aver­age is normal.
What’s nor­mal is good.

We believe in total dis­ar­ma­ment because We believe
there are direct links between war­fare and bloodshed.
Amer­i­cans should beat their guns into tractors
and the Rus­sians would be sure to follow.

We believe that man is essen­tial­ly good.
It’s only his behav­iour that lets him down.
This is the fault of society.
Soci­ety is the fault of conditions.
Con­di­tions are the fault of society.

We believe that each man must find the truth
that is right for him.
Real­i­ty will adapt accordingly.
The uni­verse will read­just. His­to­ry will alter.
We believe that there is no absolute truth
except­ing the truth that there is no absolute truth.

We believe in the rejec­tion of creeds
and the flow­er­ing of indi­vid­ual thought.

*Post Script*

If chance be the father of all flesh,
dis­as­ter is his rain­bow in the sky,
and when you hear:
‘state of emergency’,
‘sniper kills ten’,
‘troops on rampage’,
‘youths go looting’,
‘bomb-blast school’,
it is but the sound of man wor­ship­ing his maker.

— Steve Turner