The Creed, by Steve Turner

Is this the reality we live in?

We believe in Max, Freud and Darwin,
We believe everything is ok as long as you don’t hurt anyone, to the best of your definition of hurt, and to the best of your knowledge.
We believe in sex before, during and after marriage,
We believe in the therapy of sin, we believe that adultery is fun
We believe that Sodom is ok, and that taboo’s are taboo.
We believe that everything is getting better, despite evidence to the contrary. The evidence must be investigated and you can prove anything with evidence.
We believe there is something in horoscopes, UFO’s and bent spoons.
Jesus was a good man, just like Buddha, Mohammed and ourselves. He was a good moral teacher although we think his good morals were bad.
We believe that all religions are basically the same, at least the last one we read about was. They all believe in love and goodness, they only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God and salvation.
We believe that after death comes the nothing, because when you ask the dead what happened they say nothing. If death is not the end, if the dead have lied then it is compulsory heaven for all, except perhaps, Hitler, Stalin and Gingis Khan.
We believe in masters and Johnson, what’s selected is average and what’s average is normal, what’s normal is good.
We believe in total disarmament, we believe that there is direct links between warfare and bloodshed. Americans should beat their guns into tractors and the Russians would be sure to follow. We believe that man is essentially good; it is only his behaviour that lets him down. This is the fault of society, society is the fault of conditions, and conditions are the fault of society. We believe that each man must find the truth that is right for him, reality will adapt accordingly. The universe will readjust, history will alter.
We believe that there is no absolute truth, except the truth that there is no absolute truth. We believe in the rejection of creeds, and the flowering of individual thoughts. Welcome to the year 2002.