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Robert W Service - Freethinker
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Although the Preacher be a bore,
The Atheist is even more.

I ain`t religious worth a damn;
My views are reckoned to be broad;
And yet I shut up like a clam
When folks get figgerin` on God;
I`d hate my kids to think like me,
And though they leave me in the lurch,
I`m always mighty glad to see
                        My fam`ly trot to Church.

Although of books I have a shelf
Of skeptic stuff, I must confess
I keep their knowledge to myself:
Doubt doesn`t help to happiness.
I never scoff at Holy Writ,
But envy those who hold it true,
And though I`ve never been in it
                        I`m proud to own a pew.

I always was a doubting Tom;
I guess some lads are born that way.
I couldn`t stick religion from
The time I broke the Sabbath Day.
Yet unbelief`s a bitter brew,
And this in arid ways I`ve learned;
If you believe a thing, it`s true
                        As far as your concerned.

I`m sentimental, I agree,
For how it always makes me glad
To turn from Ingersoll and see
My little girls Communion-clad.
And as to church my people plod
I cry to them with simple glee:
"Say, folks, if you should talk to God,
                        Put in a word for me."
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