Whether or Not
It Is From Religion
A.
“I’m ambidexterous. The nuns would hit my left hand
when I wrote because I was supposed to use my right hand.
When my right hand got tired when I
wrote a paper at home, I would just switch hands.”
Things are supposed to be a certain way,
aren’t they?
There can’t be anything different from the norm
you’ll have to abide by our rules
“who’s rules?” ours.
“I thought I was listening to God’s rules.”
We have interpreted God’s rules. It is for your own good.
“Doesn’t the Bible state that YOUR bahavior
and your changing the Bible
is wrong?”
That is when the child was shut up again.
Quickly.
Sometimes rules are needed to be instilled
They didn’t care how the rules would be enforced
even though they preferred swiftly
cunningly
and angrily.
B.
“She beat me because I spilled some milk.
She was showing me what Jesus would do.”
It is strange how people choose to instill the word of Christ
It is amazing how people get a “power trip”
by putting a ruler to someone’s hands
when you let someone else tell you that you can’t be married
when you let someone else tell you that you can’t have children
when you let someone else tell you that you can’t have sex
(well, isn’t that why they molest little boys?)
when you let someone else tell you that you can’t drink
when you let someone else tell you that you can’t have any fun
when you let someone else tell you that you can’t have your life back
wouldn’t you do your damnedest
to take a little bit of life away from everyone else
well, that is probably what they did
they will take every power trip they can get
C.
“But when they go to a private school
they have better manners
than kids who went through a public school.
Kids just need that strict direction in their life.”
I knew a woman who went to a Catholic school
and she wore a ton of make-up
and she smoked and drank
and she screwed anything she could
I knew a woman who went to a public high school
and she was an honor student
and she was in a sport
and she never drank, and she never smoked
and she never did anything wrong
and she never went to church
maybe it is not religion
that keeps them in line
it could be that strictness
coming from anyone, like the parents, religions, or friends
it could be being raised with rules
or morals
or values
or standards
whether or not is is from religion
is irrelevant
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to the DMJ Art Connection, off the CD Manic Depressive or Something. 
