Religion and a poet When I was nine years of age I came to see religion as a fairy tale and as we know the bible is written by many scribes during a time, some of them were wise. I like the Old Testament because it is full of blood and thunder, the New Testament is a construction a clean-up of the real thing making palatable for the squeamish. I think the creator of our world as an overarching intelligence that when the job was done left its way. The creator is neither good nor bad for it has no interest in the world besides creating it, so it is entirely up to us to make the world a liveable place, alas, so far we have failed. Mankind have dreamt of extending life long after its natural cycle even if unseen by the pulsing living world, that is how some transcribers constructed Paradise so we can exist into the indefinite and beyond. To be and not to make no sense other than easing the fearful heart and comfort the transition into death, at this point my thoughts were interrupted, my wife came and told me to do the dishes