Chapter 21 Miscellaneous Words A Poem About an Atheist Priest

"Before Genesis 11," said the atheist priest, "we had no wars." Then God sent us to war with each other, and the history of mankind has been plagued by wars ever since. An atheist priest stands on stage with shaved eyebrows drawn into a pair of arches, beneath which are iridescent eye shadows ranging in color from red to green. A bare arm, with muscles protruding from the thin shoulder straps of a red evening dress studded with gold sequins, has a skull tattooed on it, and there is a line of words under the chin: Better to die than to be humiliated. On stage, there are no spotlights, just a video: a series of slides reflecting churches, mosques and temples.Religious leaders in gold and silver waved to crowds from bulletproof glassed cars.

Atheist priest, he said: "On one plain in the land of Shinar, all men toiled together." All mankind had one ideal, a great and noble dream, realized side by side in a land without arms and The age of battle. Then God looked down and saw their tower, the common ideal of those people.A little higher, a little too close for him to be comfortable. God said, "Behold, they are one people... Now that they have done this... nothing will be impossible for them to do..." His word, in the Bible, Genesis, chapter eleven. "Hence our god," said the atheist priest, his bare arms and calf muscles densely covered with black spots of shaved hair and pores.

He said, "Our Almighty God terrified and scattered men all over the face of the earth. Confounded their tongues to scatter his people." Half cross-dressing, half retired Marines, the atheist priest in a red sequined gown said, "An almighty God so insecure?" Pitting His people against each other, to make They are weak.He said, "Is this the God we should worship?"