{"id":5316,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5316"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","slug":"the-true-believers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-true-believers\/","title":{"rendered":"The True Believers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The True Believers<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on February 16, 2012.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nA Zoroastrian I know says Jews have got it wrong,<br \/>\nThe Jews think Christian preachers string the gullible along.<br \/>\nThe Christians teach that Muslims are a badly misled crew<br \/>\nAnd Hindus know that all of them have not the slightest clue.<br \/>\nThe Sikhs respect all others but they don&#8217;t think they are right<br \/>\nAnd Buddhists know there is no god but strive towards the light.<br \/>\nConfucians are confusing but their teachings are approved,<br \/>\nBy Communists and Emperors though others were unmoved.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s Taoists, Scientologists, and Mormons in the States,<br \/>\nThe Jedi Knights are jokers but their number still inflates;<br \/>\nI know a lot of Wiccans and a Druid once called round,<br \/>\nTo tell us of a ley line to a henge that he had found.<br \/>\nThese ardent true believers know for sure their way&#8217;s the one,<br \/>\nAnd some will try to prove it with explosives or a gun!<br \/>\nBut there&#8217;s a simple answer that is very much less odd<br \/>\nAbout ten thousand years ago some men invented god!<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nI am an atheist [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%201_files\/happy.gif]<\/p>\n<p>A couple of people including Allan (Joe King below) have criticised my 10,000<br \/>\nyears ago guestimate but I&#8217;ve just been reading about G\u00f6bekli Tepe, the oldest<br \/>\nknown temple in the world which dates to between 7000 and 9000 BCE &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The True Believers by cricketjeff on February 16, 2012.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved A Zoroastrian I know says Jews have got it wrong, The Jews think Christian preachers string the gullible along. The Christians teach that Muslims are a badly misled crew And Hindus know that all of them have not the slightest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5316","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6193,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5316\/revisions\/6193"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}