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		<title>Putting the rebels in charge</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An oft-repeated poem outlines the confusion of trying to live in absolute freedom&#8230;freedom from any responsibility or rule or law or God telling you how you should live. Creed by Steve Turner We believe in Marxfreudanddarwin We believe everything is OK as long as you don&#8217;t hurt anyone to the best of your definition of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An oft-repeated poem outlines the confusion of trying to live in absolute freedom&#8230;freedom from any responsibility or rule or law or God telling you how you should live.</p>
<h2>Creed by Steve Turner</h2>
<blockquote><p>We believe in Marxfreudanddarwin<br />
We believe everything is OK<br />
as long as you don&#8217;t hurt anyone<br />
to the best of your definition of hurt,<br />
and to the best of your knowledge.</p>
<p>We believe in sex before, during, and<br />
after marriage.<br />
We believe in the therapy of sin.<br />
We believe that adultery is fun.<br />
We believe that sodomy’s OK.<br />
We believe that taboos are taboo.</p>
<p>We believe that everything&#8217;s getting better<br />
despite evidence to the contrary.<br />
The evidence must be investigated<br />
And you can prove anything with evidence.</p>
<p>We believe there&#8217;s something in horoscopes<br />
UFO&#8217;s and bent spoons.<br />
Jesus was a good man just like Buddha,<br />
Mohammed, and ourselves.<br />
He was a good moral teacher though we think<br />
His good morals were bad.</p>
<p>We believe that all religions are basically the same-<br />
at least the one that we read was.<br />
They all believe in love and goodness.<br />
They only differ on matters of creation,<br />
sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.</p>
<p>We believe that after death comes the Nothing<br />
Because when you ask the dead what happens<br />
they say nothing.<br />
If death is not the end, if the dead have lied, then its<br />
compulsory heaven for all<br />
excepting perhaps<br />
Hitler, Stalin, and Genghis Kahn</p>
<p>We believe in Masters and Johnson<br />
What&#8217;s selected is average.<br />
What&#8217;s average is normal.<br />
What&#8217;s normal is good.</p>
<p>We believe in total disarmament.<br />
We believe there are direct links between warfare and<br />
bloodshed.<br />
Americans should beat their guns into tractors .<br />
And the Russians would be sure to follow.</p>
<p>We believe that man is essentially good.<br />
It&#8217;s only his behavior that lets him down.<br />
This is the fault of society.<br />
Society is the fault of conditions.<br />
Conditions are the fault of society.</p>
<p>We believe that each man must find the truth that<br />
is right for him.<br />
Reality will adapt accordingly.<br />
The universe will readjust.<br />
History will alter.<br />
We believe that there is no absolute truth<br />
excepting the truth<br />
that there is no absolute truth.</p>
<p>We believe in the rejection of creeds,<br />
And the flowering of individual thought.</p>
<p>If chance be<br />
the Father of all flesh,<br />
disaster is his rainbow in the sky<br />
and when you hear</p>
<p>State of Emergency!<br />
Sniper Kills Ten!<br />
Troops on Rampage!<br />
Whites go Looting!<br />
Bomb Blasts School!<br />
It is but the sound of man<br />
worshipping his maker.</p></blockquote>
<p>From reading this elsewhere on the web, the last 11 lines were not in the original version, but were added later by Turner for the publication in Ravi Zacharias&#8217; book, <em>Can Man Live Without God?</em></p>
<p>On the other hand, if you really believe in &#8220;live-and-let-live&#8221; and that you can just believe whatever you want without needing moral absolutes, could I get change for a million?<img class="alignright" title="Rodeo money" src="http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com/images/rodeo.jpg" alt="" width="484" height="202" /></p>
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