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My Little Heresy

by GREGORY

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Poesy Rider L'album de la maturité, selon la formule consacrée. Toujours aussi original et avec des airs metal avant-garde ; futuriste dans les arrangements et tout et tout... Favorite track: My Little Heresy.
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Imagine a time when everyone is free From the hatred and violence of religiosity Come one and all to see My Little Heresy I’m an unbeliever I’d turn the world around if it was up to me Time to let go of hatred and bigotry Time to know - Time to grow I feel the weight of the world bearing down on me For in silence I acquiesce to this holy depravity …Of bronze-age misogynistic diatribe And for the End Times they pray we meet our end How insidious, their prophecies of pain and suffering They praise a god that promises we die in holy flame …Well, I disagree I envision a future free from religion With equality for everyone, everywhere The empowerment of women is the only thing to lift us From global poverty I see a world where children’s genitals are never mutilated To create toys for pious men …Sanctioned by their invisible gods Envision a time when no one is killed for reading When no one is burned alive for using their mind When children are allowed to learn From the real world around them Not misogynistic poetry of flat-earth era bigotry Living free without the fear of a god - My Little Heresy I’m an unbeliever I’m not afraid to say that I do not believe …I would place the current gods in the graveyard of mythology …With their evil predecessors to fade from human memory Religion is quickly falling to the hammer blows of modernity As primitive superstitions fade we grow into maturity Of truth and reason And as their doctrines decay as fairy tales laid in the grave We see the simple mistakes we have made I envision a future based on reality The pursuit of knowledge through science and discovery We are a natural wonder on this evolving world And have the right to be free …But not much time It’s time to unhinge the manacles of religion Repressing the world through those dark millennia of Man We have but one life to live, so open your mind And live to the fullest while you can! No more religious based hypocrisy I’m an unbeliever Killing on behalf of an unseen god is insanity Religion is the poison enslaving humanity I’m not afraid to preach My Little Heresy
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We are born of love and are wondrous to behold Not the product of miracles – we are special all on our own Fact deficient ideology – belief in a reason to hate Progress crippled by your fantasy – curiosity killed by faith Science subjugated by this fallacy – nursery rhymes full of lies Explaining what they don’t know as divinity Your GOD OF THE GAPS in demise Faith is a fragile construct of overlapping lies Based on ridiculous stories better left behind The edicts of a primitive culture, morally deprived Appealing on the surface – but something just isn’t right Oh, I understand the lure to surrender to their special pleading The urge to forgo, to deny responsibility With every sin forgiven – will absolution comfort me? Through vicarious salvation This is so intrinsically wrong – inherently flawed, indeed Get your morals from Deuteronomy – a bronze-age bill of rights Nonsensical historicity – the myth of Jesus was contrived Scripture states that you are justified Killing babies at the behest of a god Consoled by an imaginary afterlife – Every crime absolved Belief in some personal unseen force Is fallacious and contrived I’m struggling to make some sense of it all With the falsities implied Line after line of failed prophecies And manufactured miracles denied So tempting to resign to faith But something just isn’t right A god spills his seed into a virgin without her consent Then tortures and kills their offspring That you must cannibalize his flesh A talking snake and donkey – and a rib turns into Eve How ridiculous this story yet the gullible still believe We are born of love and are wondrous to behold Not the product of miracles – we are special all on our own Not the flattering accounts of creation – the mythic stories of old There is no original sin – we have nothing to atone Compelling at first glance But something just doesn’t feel right Questioning faith is not APOSTASY We all need room to grow Smooth and shiny on the surface But the cracks are beginning to show
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In Absentia 06:16
“In secret, have I said nothing.” – Jesus -------(John 18:20) I look around and it’s sad to see Faith supplanting the facts we need To make informed decisions Based on what we perceive If we are to be judged by what we believe We should discern the truth empirically We should dismiss the make-believe And continue to advance and achieve The gown-up truth is plain to see God will not heal an amputee -------(Mathew 9:35) Nonsensical fables hold no sway over me Are you ready to drink some blood -------(John 6:55-58, Ezekiel 39:18) To relieve you of the evil you have done? -------(Revelations 16:6) Turn a cracker into human flesh -------(Numbers 11:18, John 6:54) And devour it down that you will live forever -------(John 6:51) You will suffer not a woman to speak in church -------(1 Corinthians 14:35, 1 Timothy 2:12) You can kill a man on Saturday for doing some work -------(Exodus 31:15) Stone your child to death for misbehaving -------(Leviticus 20:9, Deuteronomy 21:18-21) Flog your neighbors which you are enslaving -------(Exodus 21:20) Schizophrenics are not possessed Faith and magic have been laid to rest For god’s sake, it is the Age of Enlightenment Religions have failed the test Discovery is a path to unite us Curiosity, a light inside us We have a need to know And we will surely grow No god has made me No god to enslave me No god to bring me to my knees In reality, I believe Religious Apologist minimize The pain and death they have realized Upon the gullible masses – surely this is a sin Creationist fantasize riding dinosaurs As their god drowns the world -------(Genesis 7:4) Repopulate the world through incest? -------(Genesis 9:1) What the hell? You can cure the plague with the blood of a bird -------(Leviticus 14:7, 51-52) Or a magic handkerchief or simply uttering words -------(Acts 19:12) Jesus taught us not to wash our hands -------(Mathew 15: 2) He knew nothing of germs -------(Mathew 15:11) How absurd! Just a few more gods consigned To the realm of mythology and left behind No god to judge me No god to punish me No god and I am not born in sin In reality, I believe No god to hear my prayer No god, no heaven, no hell, no one there No god Inseminating virgins in their sleep Thank god there is no god
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God is nothing more than a simple human desire To be more powerful than we really are But its not real Faith is the claim to know things we don’t know But the truth is not pretend; reality will win There is no god at the edge of our comprehension The God of the Gaps is only a lapse Retreating from the limits of our current rendition We understand the workings of the Universe We’ve got the upper hand: facts over holy verse We learn about the world empirically Not through tiresome demagoguery We quest that we may understand The proof is all around us There have always been floods ------- (Exodus 15:8) Washing the hands kills germs, not ministries -------(Matthew 7:2,15:20, Mark 7:5, Luke 11:38) There is no life in the blood -------(Leviticus 17:11, Deuteronomy 12:23, John 6:53) It is simple biochemistry Comets are made of ice -------(Jeremiah 10:2, Acts 2:19, Genesis 1:14) Mental illness is not a demon -------(Matthew 8:28, Mark 5:16, Luke 8:36, John 10:21) Rainbows are mere refractions of light -------(Genesis 9:13) And orbits control the seasons -------(Daniel 2:21, Acts 17:26) God is an unnecessary being Faith is believing without thinking There are not four pillars holding up the world -------(1 Samuel 2:8) Stars are light years away and cannot fall from the sky -------(Matthew 24:29) Earthquakes result from plate tectonics -------(Psalms 99:1, Jeremiah 49:21, 2 Samuel 22:8, etc) And plagues; virology -------(Numbers 16:47, Zechariah 14:12, etc) They cannot be cured with the blood of a bird -------(Leviticus 14:51) Oh please let this mythology die Religion yields no testable predictions God is not real God is not great There is nothing loving or merciful In inventing Hell or everlasting hate -------(Matthew 18:9, 25:41) The very idea of a god is flawed Given what is real God is not real – god is not great God is an unnecessary being We will make it on our own Faith is believing without thinking By learning we will grow God is an unnecessary being
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Once upon a time There was no science to explain the mysteries Primitive minds formulated explanations Based upon what they could see Down through the ages fable morphed into sick religion Imparting authority to sages With the power to control the free By sinister means Drowning women in the name of their god And burning people at the stake There are changes coming Enlightenment is inevitable, you’ll see Science has provided us the means To awaken from this primitive dream Of gods and golems; of witches and sin Of industrious demons with conniving whims Still zealots threaten torture if you don't believe To be enforced by sinister means Jihads and Crusades are both vile extremes We are living in the time of fact-checked Peer-reviewed analysis No longer can one man claim to know What I am not allowed to understand By divine inspiration We can see through the evident fallacies Past the manufactured claims to know all things As the superstitious proselytize the canons Of their misguided faith We turn to the tenants of reason We know there is always more to learn Regardless what the preacher says I have undying hope for Man Preacher says that I was full of sin when I was born Gonna burn in Hell with the wicked and forlorn Only he can save me with the magic of his god But first I gotta pay And to those who terrify children With the threat of burning in Hell That is sadistic, evil child abuse You are wicked and sick, there is NO excuse! You have burned your witches You have unleashed the soldiers of your Crusades You can pass Shiria Law They are each and all the same Just sinister means to an end of freedom In the name of god, by sinister means
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I remember frolicking with Angels Back then at least I thought they were We were getting high on the edicts of religion Chosen by god, and ready to serve But then I realized that prayers were never answered Except as defined by probability Ostracized for killing the magic Disingenuous lies I could no longer believe With ebullient grace, the schizophrenic preachers Herd mindless sheep to their intellectual death Crack off another vest in the name of some vengeful god Weak minds are taught to believe that death is best There are no saviors to wash away your deeds No power in prayer No granting your personal needs Just one single miracle is all I would need Just one fleeting moment discordant with reality Years evaporate and nothing ever changes No predictions from their broken prophecies Nothing is wrought from holy proclamation Would god allow such atrocities? For the lack of water Thousands of people will die a horrible death today The congregation prays God apparently has nothing to say I will usher in a groundswell of repudiation Against these sickly canards in every incarnation No miracle has ever been recorded The gods are impotent apparently Its time to grow beyond these childish stories The modern world has no place for Thee One single miracle to elucidate the pain An act of beyond coincidence All your prayers in vain There is no such thing as magic That is simple common sense
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- - - winds from the desert of my birth - - - - the brilliant Christopher Hitchens - RIP Sons of hatred burn their way Through disbelievers whom they slay All in the name of their loving god to save you Religion is a Mind Forged Manacle That has chained us with their primitive lies Their Bitter Angels judging me For dreams and thoughts in my mind Ethnic cleansing In the name of god Infanticide Bash them on rocks Before the eyes of their fathers For I am your god! Men of science Burned alive To free the righteous From the Devil’s lies They bask in the glory of their inquisition Fool disciples Self-proclaimed Burn some witches They are insane But religion empowers them to kill with impunity The Mind Forged Manacle Has imprisoned our human rights Those Bitter Angels stalking me Want to crucify my mind "Christopher Hitchens" Swear allegiance to the Caliphate Chop some heads for Muhammad’s sake Then claim your 72 virgins in Paradise Bow to worship Kneel to pray Beg forgiveness Pay to Play God needs money so to save your soul Send 10 % his way Bitter Angels come to punish me Proclaiming free though is a crime They have passed a righteous death sentence For everything they despise Religion is a Mind Forged Manacle That has chained us with their primitive lies Their Bitter Angels judging me For dreams and thoughts in my mind
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Conflating fallacious idioms into a single rotten seed To germinate between the rhymes that foster hate and greed Will putrefy the essence of the here and now we see With gratuitous claims of certainty concerning hoax realities False prophets with their broken scriptures Invigorate the whore That is the promise of salvation Married with the appetite for Holy War Traumatizing Innocent minds with fables Of flocks of raping angels sating carnal need Proselytizing heretics enable Fractured moral tangles of violence and greed Oh, let us pray For the capacity to reason To dispense with the make-believe Once and for all time And let us give thanks For the bounty of our intellect Which frees us from superstitious hate The surrender of reason Is not the way to go 1,600 years of Dark Ages It’s time to let god go Accreting caustic dogma to support this travesty Laden with myopic nonsensical historicity Is an attempt to sway the masses As did the primitive Pharisees To assuage the anger of their unseen jealous deities It is time to forgo The strictures of religion That have limited our growth With painful inquisition Give us commandments for reason Belief in prosperity A call to intellectual arms A doctrine of equality Oh, let us pray For the total End of Religion A hail to common sense To respect and decency And let us give thanks That we are striving toward understanding Let us open our eyes To the truths of reality Rejoice that we live in enlightened times! Religion is broken A stagnant episode It’s time to shed this filthy yoke It’s time to let god go Let god go! The surrender of reason Is not the way to go 1,600 years of Dark Ages It’s time to let god go!

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released December 21, 2016

Mastered By Richard Easterling

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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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