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SIMPLE TRUTH

by GREGORY

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(Commentary by Neil deGrasse Tyson) Once upon a simple time we wondered At the prolific evidence for the Divine In famines and earthquakes and thunder And anomalies left undefined But as the limits of our ignorance diminish The spaces allotted your god shrink with time What used to constitute an absolute Is now a matter for debate Theologians promulgate with attitude Supplanting the statutes of fact with fate Questioning faith gives us latitude To explore the more rational possibilities I seek the facts not your platitudes Truth is an eventuality God used to eat the sun By Newtonian mechanics, He is undone The cause of all sickness was evil spirits Over demons virology has won What the clergy lack in modern aptitude Is compounded by a baseless theocracy When confronted by conflicting vicissitudes They decry contradictions are the will of god We used to know everything But the more we learn the less we know Comprehension is not a sin As we increase our understanding We encapsulate god within What used to be the god of everything Is now just the god of the gaps No Sky Dome no Flat Earth no Flood No million species on a boat Plagues and disease are biology Not the work of the god of the gaps Comets are not the harbingers of death Not sent by the god of the gaps What used to be the god of everything Is now just the god of the gaps
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(commentary by SKEPTIC BIBLE STUDY and Richard Dawkins) We gaze into the heavens and ponder majesty Illustrious complexity apparently decreed Fact-deficient ministries attempting to explain Faith based creation as they hold me in disdain Time to see beyond this simple Illusion of design To realize complexity exists without Devine intervention The Blind Watchmaker tries all possibilities in time Darwinistic mechanisms churning out the form Of animated chemicals according to the laws Of physics and chemistry slowly to evolve Into everything around us without the need for gods Replicators multiplying unto their own kind A natural progression mutates matter into mind We can marvel at these wonders, explained scientifically While the primitive and ignorant invoke a deity The missing link is education; and the evidence, of course A million facts substantiate evolution as the force Of creation Time to forego mythology Finally we understand The Illusion of Design Common sense dismantles the ridiculous in time as we evolve
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BEEDOON بدون بدون Without science; without law Living by faith alone We will fall بدون Without reason; without love We are doomed to failure For there is no god above There is a causal connection Between ignorance and your faith Believing in what we know can never be By this book you are saved? If science be the Devil In the tradition of so many lost gods Who will cast the first query And be convicted of a thought crime? بدون Without mercy; without shame Without a god in tow You alone are to blame بدون Without conscience and in Thy name Jihads and Crusades Deal death just the same We tolerated your traditions The evangelistic haze We survived the enforcement of your superstitions Of promulgated hate Your Bible demands that you stone me to death Are you really that devout? You can take it as an act of apostasy That I revel in the doubt I light this candle of Reason Against the darkness of superstition To rail against the sin of ignorance Infecting our traditions We have only just begun to learn! بدون Without religion; without faith But by the light of truth and reason We shall be saved Better off without it This faith in fantasy Imaginary deities Better off without it Bronze Age morality Zealots with their bombs Better off without it Vile, sexist rhetoric Vengeful jealous gods Better off without it Texts promoting slavery Commandments to kill Better off without it Flat Earth philosophy And wishful dreams of apocalypse
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Awakening 05:04
In these ancient fictions, I can no longer believe No memories of a past life No indications of sorrow or mirth I posit nothing before my birth And so I love this life with a fervent passion Infinity scrolled out before me In natural perfection No need of religion’s ambiguity Time to forgo these depraved superstitions Time for us to realize We are wonderful Despite the lies We have no need for deception Or fairy-tales or truth belied No more killing over fables I need no fear of punishment To instill a sense of morals No threat of burning Hell to live well I don’t believe in your gods And I don’t need you to save me I choose nature’s symmetry over gruesome canonized poetry Science has dispelled the make-believe And bestowed a grander mystery Disciples explain it away with their illusory Bronze Age deities But any intelligent person can see The natural world is enough for me Time to shed these fantasies And so I usher in this awakening Thank God for rational minds In these ancient fictions, I can no longer believe Just open your eyes and see We have but one chance to live, so live well
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(Commentary by the late Christopher Hitchens, RIP ha ha ha) And in the aftermath we shared the poisoned spoils Like brothers in arms Pillaging through the intellectual dregs We compiled the reasons to do no further harm But alas we are bound by what we currently know And the conquests of Reason displace the fears below The waterline of understanding, even as we grow We are not the first to contemplate the end We can never know everything On this we can all agree Christ has fostered ages of forced banality Enlightenment snuffed out by church sanctioned brutality Religion is anathema to everything we are And a hindrance to all we can achieve When the Ten Commandments promote insidious slavery What further proof do you need? A morally bankrupt theology This Christiansanity And in the final days we realized how much we had lost To wasted time, killing over fairy-tales, justified by unseen gods Postulates to reconstruct mythology and lore To accommodate new discoveries Insights proscribed by their incipient theology Forbidding technology To explain the Universe around us And everything that doesn't fit their faulty history We will never know everything On this we can all agree I do not believe in vicarious redemption In murdering another man for my sins Bronze Age dogma begets righteous indignation We can no longer pretend And at the End of Days we realized how much it had cost By manufacturing jealous gods If you choose to believe the impossible Your faith is clearly not for me There are no miracles in what you have seen Only new science yet to glean And now once again we arrive at this awkward place Face to face with a lie Change is occurring at a dubious pace And only the Truth will survive We are on the cusp of and logical and intelligent decree Our most rational epiphany: There never was a god and we were always free We can no longer tolerate the incivility To kill in the name of mythology We will never know everything On this we all can agree
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Hobgoblins scribbling down the form of their preferred afterlife With a promise to burn for voicing contention As seven billion minds try to reach an aggregate faith We frolic on the edge of oblivion The flock disintegrates into a carnal cabal Present tense convictions ablating epiphanies, Polarizing attitudes prevail (and the rest can go to hell) “The fire and the flames will burn both wet and dry together” – Muslim proverb May the Buddha smile upon our folly today God sees fit to allow 30,000 children to starve to death every day The protocol of loss is a sophisticated kind of treachery Laced with random acts of kindness, a deceptive ministry, indeed “Judge us by our charity, not the millions that we bleed” Cunning acquisition of the moral high ground then regression into consensual idiocy Disparity nested in ambiguity We are each accountable for our own delusions and episodic faith Forgive and forget assumptions of propriety So billions are damned to everlasting flames? Condemned by being born into the wrong theocracy The sickest of fantasies! Praying for another’s misery I find no solace in your decrepit prophecies Your fables hold no sway over me “I am terrified by the eternal silence of those infinite spaces.” – Pascal And in summation you will find as equations align The absolute value of faith was a negative Charlatans of hope breathing meaning into a drowning mind Gasping for truth Managing god in absentia My moral entrails spilled by the scathing acceptance of promises That would wither a lesser deity than you Two billion vote for this god A billion favor that fraud, With mutually exclusive salvation Still everyone is mystified by these unholy savage numbers Yet the significance of ONE remains The progeny of priests are these everlasting savage numbers The sacrifice of millions for nothing Once upon a time-like loop, love was providential There was no god to deny us our potential History cannot erase these savage numbers Oh, let us pray to resurrect our sanity

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(Dedicated to the late, brilliant, and most rational thinker of our time, Christopher Hitchens)

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released July 3, 2015

Special thanks to Adam McLean adammclean.bandcamp.com, Jordon Miller anthemhillsmusic.com, David McLean www.skinnydevil.com, and Aaron Francis for throwing down on yet another album with me. Also, thanks to Christopher Hitchens, Neil DeGrass Tyson, Richard Dawkins, and DiestPaladin for their wisdom and inspiration in these irrational times. Mastered by Richard Easterling of thirdskystudio.com as always... thanks, man! Huston and Tony would both approve!

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GREGORY Las Vegas, Nevada

1987: The PHARAOH Project – Birth Rights
1988: BEHOLDER
2008: PRESCIENT – Emergence
2011: Proof of Concept
2011: Light Horizon w/ Adam McLean
2012: Birth Rights (pt 2) w/ Adam
2012: VIVID DOMINION
2012: The Imperative w/ Adam
2013: The End of Religion w/ Adam
2013: Apostasy
2014: Dead River Scriptures
2014: in a matter of days w/ Jordan Miller
2014: The Forge of Gods w/ Adam
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