“Board puts faith in ‘In God We Trust,’” LA Times 11/7/07
Earnest Christians,
Afflicting this Shining Nation on a Hill,
Want to adorn every schoolroom
With a bold slogan
To pummel kids:
“In God”
(They must read daily),
“We trust.”
Trouble is, there is no god.
But let’s assume there is.
What worldly evidence
Suggests this god gives
A rat’s ass about anything,
Much less, what we earthy
Bipeds do?
As well, we’d like to know
Which of the 6,912 living languages
(Not counting the dialects
Of 55Cancri’s fifth planet)
Does it speak?
Given harelips,
(Among other hiccups in the helix),
Malaria, tsunamis, quakes,
Eternal holy war,
Pious Job’s dead children, putrid sores,
Just what,
Precisely,
Is it
That we trust this god to fix?
(11/10/07)