AGAINST RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL HYPOCRISY
 

THE VICTORS WRITE HISTORY
THE VICTORS WRITE SCRIPTURES.
 THE RICH WRITE YOUR CURRICULUM TOO.

The victors we know write history;
The victors write the scriptures too;
They program what you watch on TV
 And all the lies about what's good and evil
That you learn in school.

The rich have scriptures that justify slaughter;
The rich have scriptures that justify hate;
The rich have religions that say they have the right
To subdue the earth, create terror among creatures,
And, among other humans, to dominate.

Carnivorous religions say they pray
To a god of pure infinite love
Who wants them nonetheless to eat the corpses,
Of brutally oppressed, exploited, enslaved,
Murdered flesh and blood.

Since being killed is bloody and painful for animals,
And eating cholesterol is no good for you,
How can slaughtering animals and eating their corpses
Be something you would morally, or nutritionally, pursue?

Orthodox Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Are all cattleman religions:.
They kill the animals and feed you their flesh
And as your blood gets thick with animal fat
And you get sick by that,
They and their meat industries get rich.

The orthodox are brutal; they are uncaring.
Other creatures' lives--they are unsparing--
Their scriptures say all foods are clean,
Their god's not too bright if you know what I mean.

Though they say love your neighbor as your self,
Such an attitude, in reality, would breed equality!
Instead they create societies of rich and poor,
Breeding envy and jealousy, violence, rebellion,
brutal and bloody misery.

 And these orthodox religions believe in slavery,
That not all humans deserve full liberty--
But tell me my friend, if you were the slave,
Wouldn't you fight to the death against such evil,
In order to be free?

If we're ever going to have peace on earth,
There are evils we must eliminate,
The force of those who say they have the right
To subdue the earth and dominate.

Jesus said the Devil was the Father of Lies,
And being masked as God is the Devil's disguise,
Many scriptures in the Torah, the Gospels and Koran,
Weren't inspired by God, but were written
By greedy and evil businessmen.

Carnivorous religions are conquering religions:
Unlike the Way of the Buddhist and Hindu.
They are constant imperialists who invade other nations,
And history proves that this is true.

And now we have the statistics to show
What has been known by the pure since ancient times
That cultures that have violent diets
Have far more violent crimes.

The victors we know write history;
The victors write the scriptures too;
They program what you watch on TV
And all the lies, about what's good and evil,
That you learn in school.

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When you say don't lay
Your vegetarian trip on me,
Your logic doesn't stand, it falls;
For you're the one laying a trip
Of oppression and death
On other animals.

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Worshipping the devil is so sweet;
Everyday you get a corpse to eat.
But just so people don't think we're odd,
We don't call the devil, devil,
We call the devil God.

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Jesus said the devil was the father of lies,
And being masked as God is the devil's best disguise.
Much of the Old and New Testament and Koran
Weren't inspired by God, but were written
by greedy, evil, lying businessmen.

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You say judge not that you may not be judged,
Well then I ask you why
You judge that other animals
Should suffer for you and die.
 

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LEGACY OF LIES

Our history holds a lot of people up as models,
But if we look a little further,
It's obvious these supposedly good people were involved
Wit oppression, slavery and murder.

Columbus oppressed and killed natives from the beginning:
He dismembered them in front of their families,
He took them for slaves to be sold--
In his Christian mind Indians were inferior--
Yet honor Columbus we are told.

Washington, Jefferson, other founding fathers,
Said so many things about equality,
While oppressing natives and enslaving blacks,
While practicing slavery.

Millions of African slaves were brought
Forcefully to this country's shore,
While slave holders quoted Koran and the Bible
and so-called St. Paul to defend
Their oppression and slavery, their bloody gore.

And when Lincoln supposedly freed the slaves,
Blacks in the Union army still weren't given equal rank or pay,
And while the U.S. Cavalry was murdering natives in the West,
President Lincoln said it was okay.

After the civil war land was given
Mostly to the rich and not the poor,
Blacks became tenant farmers and had to
Work for the rich once more.

And battle after battle, treaty after treaty,
Indians lands shrank to their reservations,
While priests and ministers and their scriptures exclaimed:
The pagan deserves subordination.

In world War 1 equal rank or pay
Weren't given to black soldiers or red--
when they returned from the war, they were unequal still,
No matter what the lying media said.

And in World War 2 president Roosevelt made
This nation's racism easy to see:
The Japanese were jailed in detention camps,
While most Germans and Italians walked free--
[Hey, we were fighting all three!]

And our government now supports dictators south of the border
 in Guatemala and Chiapas and Columbia,
Against whom the people have rebelled.
Our rich people and their rich people
Treat the dissidents like hell.

The vast majority of Christian cultures
Have defended sexism and slavery.
"Wives obey your husbands; slaves obey your masters,"
Is in the New Testament for all to see.

Faced with such scriptures, when believers reply:
Those scriptures fit the time--they're not eternal truth,
They don't want to admit that what they're saying
Is that the Bible's words are not absolute.

"The poor you will always have with you,"
Yet "The meek will inherit the earth."
The rich quote one, the poor quote the other--
What is such confusion worth?

How inspired are scriptures so confused
That it's not obvious to see
A creator of perfect love would want not only every human,
But every creature to be happy and free.

Of all the "religious" views on the earth,
Few are so vicious, so immoral, or odd,
As those which say that oppressing other beings,
Other humans or other animals,
Is desired by an all-loving god.

Down with all governments and religions,
Telling their people they are elite;
Down with all the enemies of
Total equality.
 
 

Equality breeds contentment;
Inequality resentment.
 
 

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         PROOF THAT THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IS BIGOTED:

The Knights of Columbus Honors a Known Persecutor of Indigenous People.
This is a Public Confirmation of the Bigotry of the Roman Catholic Church.

   The Knights of Columbus, a Roman Catholic organization, named themselves after Christopher Columbus, a known persecutor of indigenous people.  Upon arrival at Turtle Island, i.e. the New World to European invaders, Christopher Columbus had members of the Aruack tribe dismembered, in front of their own family members, no less.  He took indigenous people as slaves as well.  He, like the many Christian slave-holders that came later, who brutalized millions of Africans, accepted the enslavement of others as something that was sanctioned in the New Testament, such as  Paul' scriptures saying "Slaves obey your masters" in "Romans."

   Christopher Columbus was ostensibly Roman Catholic, though some sources say he might have been born Jewish.  The Old Testament like the New Testament and Koran also supports the institution of slavery.

   The reader should be made aware, however, that there are pure remnants of non orthodox Jews, Christians and Muslims who are egalitarian and vegetarian, and who despise the despicable institution of slavery. Because their numbers have been small, their criticisms of the rich elite who run the orthodoxies of their religions fall on deaf ears.

  For a truthful summary of Columbus' treatment of the Aruack natives, see
A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn, the best
 
 

The Bible

Of all the printed books in the world,
The Bible has been printed more.
And the earth now has greater problems
Than it's ever had before.
 

To Fundamentalist Christians:

Can it be real?
Can it be true?
That people are going to hell
Though they're nicer than you?

I don't eat animals
Who've been brutally killed,
But you say it's okay:
It's even God's will.

I do my best not to pollute
The sacred earth, the sacred air,
and the sacred water,
But you say it's okay to do so--
You've been even given permission
By your (not so) heavenly father.

You say you have a personal
Relationship with Jesus,
But everyday it seems
The list of your offenses
against the earth and its creatures
increases.

Are you being God's or the devil's steward,
And what really is your idea of stewardship worth?,
As your industries oppress, displace and murder,
The creatures of the earth?

For everyday your industries kill creatures,
And pollute the air and sea and land,
And everyday you put a corpse on your plate,
Because some cunning businessman
Paid writers to write verses in the Bible that say
God himself said it was okay
To subdue and dominate.

If we took a survey,
And you know it's true,
We would find that
No one wants to be dominated
Or subdued.

That businessmen wrote
Many of your scriptures,
You say is sacrilegious--
You won't accept that.
But that the victors write history,
You know is a fact,
Because you accuse your enemies
of doing exactly that.

We all know how you separate
Truth from Fiction:
Truth is whatever
Supports your addiction.

To kill the animal
to get the corpse that you eat
Involves acts that are bloody
And acts that are mean,
And some of your scriptures are so insane
They say an all-loving God
Says such bloody and unhealthy foods are clean.

It doesn't really take
a lot of acumen
To know such ignorant scriptures
were created by brutal and greedy
businessmen.

Since your diet and life style
Promote brutality towards God's creatures
and a multitude of diseases--
Exactly what good is your believing
In the name of Jesus?

Though you insist your god is love,
You read your Bible and you say
That slaughter and slavery
Gender bias and sexism
And pollution are okay.

Where did your logic come from anyway?

How can your logic be associated
With the heavenly state
When it promotes so many
Different kinds of hate?

Until you come around
To a morality that's better,
I say your god's a demon,
And doesn't deserve
a capitol letter.

Can it be real?
Can it be true?
That people are going to hell
Though they're nicer than you?

You'll probably answer:
Yes they are going to hell,
Though it doesn't take an oracle
To know my questions above
      Are simply rhetorical.

So, you Christian fundamentalists,
And you Roman Catholics too,
And all you Christians who believe
You have the only religion that's true,

Why don't you just
Go into the wilderness as your master did,
Be quiet there and fast and pray,
and meditate,
And ask the Divine Power
To clear your spirit of confusion and hate?

To claim your God is All-loving
Means your God loves every being,
And in order for you to be loving too
You yourself have got to do
the very same thing.

In short:
Since scriptures in your New Testament
Promote the evils of slavery,
Resentment-breeding economic elitism,
Gender bias,
sexism,
Religious wars,
Brutality towards animals,
And cholesterol based diseases,
Tell me exactly
what good is accomplished
By your believing
In the name of Jesus?

You are of the lineage
Of those who supported the Inquisition,
And what you call religion,
Is simply the ideology
of those who in denial
Who share the same addictions and superstitions.
 
 

  CONDITIONING BY THE MEDIA
    THE GOVERNMENT, THE RELIGIONS, THE SCHOOLS

If we're taught over and over again
That what is right is wrong,
And if we're taught the very same thing
By every group to which we belong,

Then we can be like Nazis under Hitler,
Spellbound by the constant Nazi word,
Driven by repeated Nazi rhetoric,
Conditioned to be absurd.
 

   THE DRAFT

When we go into the military
We take an oath to be a slave,
To follow our commanding officer,
And he may lead us to the grave.

And the government doesn't give a damn
What we ourselves believe;
When industrialists want to control new lands,
We've got to kill and maybe die for industry.

It doesn't matter what you believe--
If we're at war, you've gotta go;
You may say you believe in the land of the free,
But if you don't agree with the war, where did your freedom go?

U. S. Industrialists helped Hitler to rise to power,
Sold Japan gas and iron used in World War II,
And helped the Soviets make weapons used
In the Korean and Vietnam Wars, it's true.

Yes, the Rockerfellers, Mellons, Du Ponts and Fords,
Have helped shed a lot of blood and gore,
And even helped to kill their own country's soldiers
In the Korean and Vietnam wars.

Selling arms to Iran to help the contras--
Nothing new for the weapons industry.
The more weapons sold the richer they get--
That's as far as the bloody rich care to see.

We invaded and killed the Buddhists of Korea,
We invaded and killed the Buddhists of Vietnam.
Now we're in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan,
Invading and killing the people of Islam.

Three hundred thousand killed in the bombing of Baghdad;
Sanctions have killed a million more.
Orthodox Christians killing Muslims,
A very old, a very ancient, religious war.

And when some Muslims retaliate,
In a spectacular act of reprisal,
Our Media plays dumb, and says "Why are they mad?"
And programs patriots to be in denial.

In wars industrialists got us into,
Millions have been injured, millions killed,
Not for freedom, not for liberty,
But so the banks of industrialists could be filled.

Yes, the rich industrialists of the United States,
Like the rich elite of other industrial nations,
Have helped to shed their own people's gore;
They conscripted the soldiers of their own country to fight,
While they provided their enemies with the weapons of war.

Isn't it time that all people loving freedom
Made sure that people like this
Do not have power any more?
 

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 The Works of John Sutton,
from the Hoover Institute, Palo Alto.
Sutton's works should be found in most large libraries.

    John Sutton's body of research is a relatively unexamined source, for good reasons.  The elite industrialists of the United States do not want to have their hypocrisy exposed, the fact that they have encouraged the people of their nation to go to war, and have profitted from those wars, by selling war material to both sides, to their own countries, and to the nations against whom their country was fighting.

   The work of John Sutton from the Hoover Institute documents the involvement of U.S. industries in helping our then enemy Russia to make munitions and munition systems used against U.S. forces in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars.  Sutton was a patriotic Republican citizen who could in no way be accused of iconoclasm.  He simply wanted the U.S. industrialists to be consistent in not helping the "enemy" then to kill U.S. soldiers.  Sutton's pleas to his own party went unheeded.

    While most people I associate with realistically see the term "moral Republican" as an oxymoron, John Sutton was an exception to the rule. So too, Ted Turner's recent analysis of the events of September 11, 2001, show that a few, even among the wealthy, a very few, however,  still have a conscience.
 

                   The Sacrament of Satan

Where is there justice?...

The slaughterer of cows
Is not trampled by bovine hooves...
The eater of pork is not gored
By the tusks of the boar.

As cannibals ate their enemies to gain their strength,
So is murdered flesh is the most addictive of drugs in tune with
Power over the animal, a once living beast,
Now dead, and you with spear ax gun sledge hammer knife fork
Hovering over it...your heart inwardly pounding your chest,
Your heart shouting that you are more powerful
Or at least more crafty,
Than the once living being lying under you...
Lying on your dish a mandala...death at the center.

Your power is the rage of your ego:
Your self crying out it is better
Than what is around it.  Your ego prods you.
You deserve to dominate, to subdue the earth.

Ah yes, you are the champion bullfighter,
The best baseball football basketball soccer player in the world;
You are the world's most powerful boxer, wrestler,
Best president, most powerful general,
The richest industrialist controlling the greatest number of wage slaves.
You are the greatest of the behindthescenes rich men
Controlling the masses of the world.
Your command kills more than any other, you cause the most misery...
You are the emperor of evil!
You are the strongest, the handsomest, the richest
And therefore your reward:
Perfumed bodies, smooth legs spread...ahhh.

But your potency fails as you age,
Your muscles and hardons and other organs diminish in power,
Though your bad moods anxiety despair are erect
And at attention,
while the bodies of your gentler brothers and sisters
Persist longer in their health and strength.

For the circulation of justice is as smooth
as the movement of blood through the body...
Conspiring, lungs breathe in together the tiny toxins of death...
the brain absorbs miniscule pollutants,
like pinpoints of murderous thought,
and gradually, by degrees, the poisons accumulate,
and the body commits its oh so slow but inevitable suicide:
little lumps of fat goo and matter
from the enslaved and slaughtered and dismembered ones
move slowly and oh so subtly in the bloodstream,
clogging and poisoning a kidney here, a liver there,
a gall bladder in another...in those who would not filter right from wrong,
the heart in another...who would not extend compassion to the other animals...
arthritis in that one who would not let the animals move freely,
cataracts in those who refuse to look at the atrocities...
and deafness in those who would not hear
the moans and horror of the slaughterhouse...
And as the little globules of cholesterol
Intrude and settle here and there in your body,
And your health prematurely declines,
And Death stands over you,
As you stood over other animals--
Perhaps the spear of death this lifetime is cancer
  or heart trouble, diabetes, kidney failure--
Death speaks to you and says: YOU chose me:
The temple of your body digested death,
Made death a part of your bloodstream,
Feeding every cell in your brain and heart and soul.

So now, tell me, as you watch the animals
Bellowing against the prod,
Goaded down chutes to the slaughterhouses,
As you watch their throats being slit,
Their bodies cut in half, their necks twisted,
Or their mangled and murdered bodies in the killing fields of industry,
Tell me, tell me again! that your god is all-compassionate and loving,
Tell me that you or those you listen to,
Have not corrupted the original words of purity
Of Moses and Jesus and Mohammed,
All of whom frequently retreated into the wilderness
To fast and be with God;
And as you explain why you daily put the corpse of a murdered animal
Into the temple of your body,
Listen carefully to yourself
As you explain how you are not devoted to a demon
Who desires pain and death for other creatures,

And remember...
that Deity is just.

For those who do not listen to love,
Death is as inevitable as birth,
As inevitable as having to come again and again,
Until the lesson is learned,
Into a world like the earth,
A world of terror and deceit
And a life that for you is a living death.

The circulation of justice is as smooth
as the movement of blood through the body...
 
 

                    A fluffy poem about stuffed animals
                      (Inspired by Ginsberg's ghost)

Orthodox theologians are humptydumpty eggheads falling off their walls,
breaking their shells, revealing the yolk and the joke that they are.

Orthodox theologians in straight jackets and ties dictate to the world that
infinite love is murder, and MacDonalds, Burger King, Hardy's, Wendy's, and
other giant fast food chains grant money to the universities and their
theologians, to constantly say the same.

I know that you say you're repulsed by devils' cults, but how do you
explain the established insanity of putting the corpse of a once living being
on your dish, eating it, making it part of your mindbody structure, and
saying you're devoted to god, not the devil?

(They sell Brooklyn Bridges to themselves, expressways to hell they give you
scholarships to ride on.  Misery loves company so let's all go to hell
together is their motto.)

They eat corpses together at deathfeasts.  Their comradeship is carrion.
Walking graves, flesh coffins for the corpses of beasts, death
is their vision, imperialism their method, they rule every corpse they've
eaten, every slave they hire to inflict the injuries of industry.

To their closest accomplices they say you'll be dressed as the best, and
we'll nicely spice the carcass so you won't taste the waste of the place that
was your soul.

You are a cemetery of sentient beings, your unrest is the grieving of those
you damned to oppression and slaughter.  Your depression and despair the
sorrow of those whom you doomed to die.  They are buried in your ground of
being.  A field that could be unified is DISunited.  You are a decreation, a house divided against itself, a darling of Beelzebub.

(I have faith that a god of infinite love is in my pork chop, my hamburger,
my chicken, my fish.  I am not good at logic, but I can yell Jehovah or Jesus or Allah with the best of them.)

I love you God--I kill you cow.  I love you Lord--I stab you sow.
What the dickens--kill the chickens.  I get my wish--I suffocate fish.

A little voice is saying:

  You say eating corpses is healthy;
 You pay someone to murder every day.
And you don't understand that you feel bad
   Because your crimes do not pay.

My body is the temple of slaughter and oppression.  I subdue and I have
dominion over the creatures of the earth, their blood on my slaughterhouse
altar is my proof, their corpses my nutrition literally make up my being.
I am a walking character of corpses; it is I who teach you at the
universities; it is I who preach to you in church and synagogue and mosque
and other temples affirming slavery and slaughter.  Look in the mirror and
see my demonology at work.

Cholesterol junkies rule the world.  Trophies and plaques of dominion,
cholesterol plaque in the brain and heart.

I am the president of hell, with the military to back me, saying slaves obey your masters, die so we rich can be richer, die for tin, die for coal, die for oil, patriot die for the state.  As cows and pigs and chickens and fish have died for you, so you shall die for the rich, the hierarchy of dominion goes on and on.  The blood of the masses is my expense account.

I am the devil masked as God and the condition of the world is proof that I rule.
 
                        Worshiping the devil is so sweet.
                        Everyday you get a corpse to eat.
                        But just so people don't think we're odd,
                        We don't call the devil,
                        We call the devil god.