Posts Tagged With: Religion

OPIATE

Posted on 13/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told.

Religion is doing what you are told regardless of what is right.”

~ Anonymous ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blind Belief, Chalice, Common Sense, Digital Imagery, Equality, Lies, Life, Masses, Open-Mindedness, Opiate, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Prejudice, Reason, Religion | 1 Comment

CORNU COPIAE

Posted on 09/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“All animals are equal,

but some animals are more equal than others.”

~ George Orwell ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a fragment of painted Roman wall plaster depicting what is possibly an empty cornucopia taken in January 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cancer, Cornucopia, Digital Imagery, Disease, Greed, Humanity, Hunger, Ideology, Ignorance, Inequality, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poor, Poverty, Privilege, Religion | 1 Comment

THE YOKE

Posted on 01/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“…crawling out of the medieval muck of doctrinal bondage

is the first step to secular sensibility on the road to the stars…”

~ nightpoet ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in St Michael’s Tower on the Glastonbury Tor in England in June 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awareness, Blind Belief, Chains, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Fables, Gods, Life, Myths, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Progress, Religion, Shackles, Slaves, Temples, Yoke | 1 Comment

TRAPPED

Posted on 17/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“If one has never known freedom,

it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one’s cell.”

~ Nenia Campbell ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blind Belief, Digital Imagery, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Shadows, Sunlight, Trapped | 1 Comment

MIRACLE

Posted on 10/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall,

but wise words endure.”

~ Edward Thorndike ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a wall advertisement taken in the Marais district of Paris in July 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Belief, Comprehension, Digital Imagery, Electrochemical Signals, Form, Miracle, Myth, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Preservation, Religion, Substance, Superstition, Thoughts, Vision, Words, Writing | 1 Comment

NO ONE

Posted on 23/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“My body, my choice.”

~ Anonymous ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beliefs, Body, Choice, Digital Imagery, Feminism, Freedom, Government, Individual, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Rights, Values, Woman | 1 Comment

MONKEY MAN

Posted on 02/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“When fascism comes to America,

it will be wrapped in the flag

and carrying a cross.”

~ Anonymous ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: America, Asshole, Bible, Cross, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fascism, Flag, Fox, Henhouse, Kill, Monkey, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Shoot, Thieves, Till | 1 Comment

DARKNESS

Posted on 11/05/2020 by Nightpoet

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,

and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”

~ Helen Keller ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2001.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Contemplation, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Friendship, Lamp, Life, Light, Love, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Shadows, Wait | 1 Comment

STAYING AFLOAT

Posted on 08/05/2020 by Nightpoet

“The world is filled with fools,

but none of them considers himself one,

or tries not to be one.”

~ Baltasar Gracián ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2010.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Afloat, Awareness, Blind Belief, Common Sense, Comprehension, Creatures, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Emotions, Exist, Facts, Flail, Flotsam, Flounder, Fools, Humanity, Ignorance, Imagination, Intolerance, Life, Noses, Nyaffs, Perception, Perspective, Perspicacity, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Prejudice, Reason, Reflections, Religion, Sea, Think, Water | 1 Comment

THE SIN OF THE CALF

Posted on 15/04/2020 by Nightpoet

“The God excuse, the last refuge of a man

with no answers and no argument.”

~ George Carlin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2001.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ass, Bible Babblers, Binge, Blasphemy, Confused, Darkness, Dazed, Desert, Dick, Digital Imagery, Face, Finger, Golden Calf, Ignorance, Moses, Mountain, Pants, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Stick | 1 Comment

NO GOD

Posted on 22/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Anarchy, Ashes, Autumn, Avenues, Barbarism, Breath, Burned, Cadavers, Capitalism, Cathedral, Choke, Civilization, Contorted, Culture, Darkness, Death, Decency, Digital Imagery, Eat, Enlightenment, Food, Fools, God, Heart, Humanity, Ignorance, Leaves, Life, Money, No Future, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rags, Religion, Rich, Rubble, Shadows, Streets, Twisted, Virus | 1 Comment

APOCALYPSO

Posted on 20/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“This is the way the world ends,

not with a bang, but a whimper.”

~ T. S. Eliot ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 1999.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Amusement, Apocalypse, Bastard, Brutish, Dance, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Evil, Future, God, Ignorant, Image, Merciless, Narrow Minded, Perspective, Photography, Plague, Poetry, Predator, Prey, Religion, Sadistic, Selfish, Shadows, Sins, Spiteful, Stupidity, Suffering, Vicious Circle | 1 Comment

HATS OFF TO GOD

Posted on 21/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear,

explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Belligerent, Binders, Bullshit, Chosen People, Conflicts, Death, Digital Imagery, Free Thought, God, History, Holier Than Thou, Intelligence, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Problems, Religion, Undies | 1 Comment

BIRDCAGE

Posted on 22/11/2019 by Nightpoet

“I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.”

~ Anaïs Nin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in August 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Afterthought, Beauty, Birdcage, Conceive, Crotch, Digital Imagery, Docile, Drop Kick, Emotions, Holy Tomes, Life, Love, Man, Obey, Paris, Passion, Past, Photography, Place, Religion, Ribs, Serve, Sex, Silent, Subservience, Superior, Time, Value, Woman | 1 Comment

ORIGINAL SIN

Posted on 27/08/2019 by Nightpoet

“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”

~ Hunter S. Thompson ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Body, Culture, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Erotica, Evolution, Fulfillment, Heart, Intimacy, Life, Love, Mind, Needs, Original Sin, Overpopulation, Paris, Passion, Photography, Pleasure, Poetry, Procreation, Religion, Sex, Survival, Writing | 1 Comment

GOD TAKES A BREAK

Posted on 31/07/2019 by Nightpoet

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Eve, God, Heaven, Life, Original Sin, Paris, Past, Pearly Gates, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Salt, Sinners, Stress, Time, Whores | 1 Comment

WITHOUT A COUNTRY

Posted on 23/07/2019 by Nightpoet

“The evils of capitalism are as real

as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.”

~ Martin Luther King Jr. ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bibles, Capitalist Pigs, Constitution, Corporate Vermin, Country, Death, Democracy, Digital Imagery, Fascists, Finger, Fist, Freedom, Future, History, Law, Life, Mercy, No Quarter, Oppressors, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pigs, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Revolution, Revolutionary, Socialism | 1 Comment

DEATH AND COBWEBS

Posted on 10/07/2019 by Nightpoet

“When you bring the light into your dark house,

that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders.”

~ Rajneesh ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Afterlife, Assholes, Bigotry, Charlatans, Cobwebs, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Farce, Flag, Irrationality, Life, Memories, Mouths, Mystery, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Prophet, Relevance, Religion, Resurrection, Shadows, Throats, Time, Truth | 1 Comment

AND THE DEAD LAUGH

Posted on 01/07/2019 by Nightpoet

“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead.

Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”

~ Langston Hughes ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of the wall of the Cimetière du Père Lachaise that runs along the Rue du Repos taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Afterlife, Barbed Wire, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Flesh, Graves, Imagination, Judgment, Laugh, Life, Oblivion, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Rot, Sleep, Spikes, Surprise, Time, Unconcerned, Undisturbed, Unperturbed | 1 Comment

LIONEL IN THE DAN’S DEN

Posted on 11/06/2019 by Nightpoet

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Brimstone, Darkness, Death, Den, Digital Imagery, Fanfare, Fire, Heaven, Hell, Life, Paris, Pearly Gates, Photography, Poetry, Pomp, Religion, Shadows, Soul, Time | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Religion

“Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told.

Religion is doing what you are told regardless of what is right.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“All animals are equal,

but some animals are more equal than others.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“…crawling out of the medieval muck of doctrinal bondage

is the first step to secular sensibility on the road to the stars…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“If one has never known freedom,

it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one’s cell.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall,

but wise words endure.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“My body, my choice.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“When fascism comes to America,

it will be wrapped in the flag

and carrying a cross.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,

and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The world is filled with fools,

but none of them considers himself one,

or tries not to be one.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The God excuse, the last refuge of a man

with no answers and no argument.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“This is the way the world ends,

not with a bang, but a whimper.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear,

explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The evils of capitalism are as real

as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“When you bring the light into your dark house,

that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead.

Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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