• Agnostic or Atheist, it doesn't matter.
• Both can compete for the best way to be.
• Certainly beating out mindless religion,
• Daring to fathom that humankind is free.
• Even when granting that life can be difficult,
• Fear is superfluous, for we are sure
• God is a shadow of sheer superstition,
• Hell a concoction no human shall endure.
• Isn't it telling that we can accept them:
• Jews, Muslim, Christians, whoever else,
• Keeping no record of petty transgressions
• Looking instead for broad parallels.
• Morals, some say, are likely our downfall.
• Never there's been a more common mistake.
• Other than reason there isn't an answer;
• Prayers, by contrast we usually forsake.
• Questions are welcome, no subject off limits.
• Reaching no verdict which scripture affirms.
• Sin is a judgment on our mere existence?
• This we deny in the strongest of terms.
• Use then your passion, your pleasure in living.
• Venture forth with us, join in our quest!
• Wanting to spread the great find of the Humanist...
• XX or XY, no chromosome's best.
• Yes there are those who long to discover.
• Zero on in, we will tell them the truth!

--Wim Ruyten
Human Voice,, May 1995