I would agree that the crux of religeon as a worthy calling is gut feeling. But the crux of any specific religion is taking the word of someone, and that is what I'm calling faith.

We have faith in God because we are built to have such faith. It's scarinbgly true, and leads to all sorts of deception. Too many people tell us to have faith in this god or that, and only because of some vision or supernatural knowledge they claim to have. Such people are easy to refute. Yet, we remain convinced of God's existance. Go figure.

No, that's not religion or philosophy. Yet some people have included it there. Okay, why not?

Then I will assume he means it in an adoring way, of course.

thank you; it's like a self-inflicted cause you know, a hair shirt worn by someone with something to prove a discomfort for its own sake but i still don't understand what is lacking in the rest of the poem...

in this poem, i did go for that rhyme pattern this is not my line of work visual art is my line of work, mostly sculpture writing is a roundabout way of sifting ideas for me but thank you for your consideration, and if you have anything constructive to say about my writing, i would greatly appreciate that sentiment as well. i was told by sculpture advisors to take my writing somewhere where people who knew things about writing could help (not sculptors).

King David?

"and anal people still get laid, apparently." You really left yourself wide open on that one my friend.

Eggs-fucking-zactly! Thank you for saying that. You'll get rich writing rhyme or prose faster than any of the other forms. Just ask Stephen King or Emenem and they suck at it. I'm guessing you opted for prose. Good choice. The most lucrative of them all. Rhyme was really big when there weren't a lot of people who could read or had access to literature so poems easy to memorize became popular. Then everyone was reading and rhyme faded and fell by the wayside. But nowadays people are busier and more distracted so short poetry and rhyme for their quick fix and quickly memorizable qualities are coming back into the limelight. By the way don't you think Hip-hop may be the only form of poetry (if it can be considered that) that actually achieves most of the goals of poetic movements. ie. Changing common language, social behavior, youthful attitude, philosophy and most important getting women to dance in their underwear. "All smurf the holy Smurfhammed." Bush would make the best Gargamel.

Ah the Rorschach approach to song writing.

Faith comes naturally. The caveman sees that the sunrises and falls like clockwork and with it comes and goes daylight. This is comforting to him. He can plan around this. Philosophy, science, and religion all seek to give that same comfort and where we are comforted we find faith. This is what I mean by (within) it starts in our minds and maybe hearts. Doesn't that seem obvious? The sun didn't invent faith the caveman did. Secondly, I think you are talking about blind faith. Less just say faith is believing what you wish to be true or like you said hold to be true. You can have faith in something consistantly proven like a devoted wife. It's funny. I have faith in God and Jesus but no religion.

Good sex for instance.

When Jesus asked God to change his mind about the crucifixion he was questioning God's orders. Your right that isn't faith that's questioning someone elses word you have faith in. See how that works. Even hypnotists and brain washers must first somehow break in to your inner psychy before they can control what you believe. The crux of religion is a gut feeling.

couldn't help it. sorry. :)