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Thou Shalt Not Kill

We think in a court of law . . .
Where the death sentence is being carried out
Use of the Holy Bible should never be allowed
For this breaks one of the Almighty Lord God’s 
Moral imperatives in the Ten Commandments 
Whereby, He declared: “Thou Shalt Not Kill.”

Our verdict on this subject is . . .
This action is certainly not a man-given right
To do such an immoral thing.

The very executors . . . 
Of such a heinous sentence 
Are no better than the 
Monsters they kill,
But kill them they do.

We as human beings . . .
Truly must be better than this.
Or is this trait an indelible aspect of our psyche
And our collective Cosmic DNA?

Perhaps down the line . . .
God himself gives these particular sinners 
A full taste of His Divine Redemption or His Divine Retribution.
His Choice.

The death penalty is not justice at all . . .
It’s just an easy way of getting rid of problems
And sweeping them conveniently under the rug. 

Life is truly sacred . . . 
“Thou Shalt Not Kill”
A timeless Christian virtue.

All of us, as thinking intelligent creatures . . .
Who inhabit this Earth
Should devoutly treasure this divine commandment.

Amen!  Amen!  Amen!

Liam McDaid and Gary Bateman – October 24, 2014 (Free Verse Collaboration)

Thou Shalt Not Kill

People claim 
to follow God 
To follow Allah
Moses went up onto 
the Mountain 
and came back 
with the ten commandments 
Thou shalt not kill
Christian's  claim to follow God
Thou shalt not kill
America claims to follow God
Thou shalt not kill
Palestinians claim follow God
Israelis claim to follow God
religious cults claim to follow God
thou shalt not kill
to follow God 
we must live at peace 
love thy neighbour as thy self 
war destroys the jobs
that feed our children
creating poverty
and starvation
to follow God
create peace
with every
religion

Thou Shalt Not Kill: Thyself

A crime against man. 
Committing suicide

A crime against man. 
Committing suicide

Attempted suicide...
On the other hand...

Not suicide 

Therefore, suicide is a criminal act and an attempt is not. 
Sense can find way by understanding that man is of intellectual supremacy. 

Man who attempts suicide is not committing suicide. 
Meaning that no crime is committed. 

Grey areas persist. 

Life is an opinionated subject. 
Face your own facts and serve justice accordingly so. 

This is the finely lined aspect. 
People often make errors in judgment(s). 

That being said. 
All of this... 

Suicide is a crime. 
But, the prosecution rests its case as justice is served through such death. 

Man is of supreme intellect. 
An attempt at suicide is more often a cry for help than a criminal act to the likeness of actual; completed suicide.

Smart people would, and often do, succeed in their attempt(s) of stealing their own lives—in the successful (failure) of actual suicide. 

Suicide is a crime. 
A murder in fact... 

Attempted suicide is given exemption of law due to such intellectual rationalization.
Realizing that suicide will happen if actuated with (ir)rational intellectual reticulation. 

At the end of the day we can all rest assured with this next line to be true. 
Thou shalt not kill...

Including you—

12/07/2016


Thou Shalt Not Kill

"Thou shall not kill"
Was etched in stone
High on a mountain top
As if God cracked
His funny bone
And no one heard it pop

We kill to eat
And not just meat
But weeds and insects, too
And no one grieves
For garden thieves
Who stop by for a chew

Our need for food
Fuels endless feud
Leaving us in a bind
To feed our brood
We must conclude
Mankind just isn't kind!

Thou Shalt Not Kill

What amazes me 
with all the religions
Christian Muslim and Hebrew
you all believe in the same God

All the cults
and all of the behaviours
throughout history
Your God came down 

To the mountain
and personally wrote
the ten commandments
Thou shalt not kill

How is it that Catholics
have killed Protestant
Protestant has killed Catholic
history is riddled with violence

today's world is 
riddled with violence
they say "we are better than you,
so we have a right to kill you" 

Yet surely if God took the time
to write personally 
the ten commandments
do the not apply 

To all of your religions,
thou shalt not kill
Christian cults started up
people in texas brought guns

The Authorities moved in 
we all know the history
A massive group of Christians
committed suicide

Killing themselves
If the leaders of your religion
want you to kill yourself
or somebody else

shouldn't you ask
what happened to
Thou shalt not kill
written by God himself

If every man 
refused to pick up a gun
there would be no more wars
following the path of peace 

Is a decision
you should make 
within yourself
God himself wrote the words

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