An Atheist, And I Dont Know! Poem by Eric Cockrell

As an atheist i would say that the reasons stated by the 'atheist' in the poem seem to me to be rather a religious point of view. ' 'well, you know, there's something out there, something bigger, beyond all our conceptions, some reason behind creating and destroying....' This is basically what you summerise in the poem that you call god and is perfectly logical (in a sense) to claim that as god as thats what the church has been saying for hundreds of years - that god is infinite and beyond all our conceptions. But in truth the developments of science has narrowed that defintion terribly. We now know that the earth orbits the sun not vice versa etc. The church has allways taught such things as we live this life to be tested of our worthiness for the next and that there is a divine reason for earthquakes, wars or disease and that birth is a miracle (as in verse 3) . A true atheist (and not in the least bit agnostic) view point would be this: There is no reason for anything to exsist. We exsist for the sake of exsisting and we can question the nature of our exsistence because we exsist. If we didn't have the ability to question it, we wouldn't and more importantly - wouldn't care too (as we have no knowledge of what we are missing out on) Basically what i am saying is that we do not have to be here for any reason other than a happy coincidence. There is no purpose for life and no reason for 'why some people are hungry, and some have too much...' Other than what we make of society not a superior being such as god or the hands of fate. This is what my poem 'If Housman wrote of York lad' Was about.

: D haha i love this poem. its true. but its ironic too. haha great write. love it.