Rhyme or Reason?

Some people who are certain if there is or isn't God
have always struck me firmly as being rather odd
because instead of being comfortable with whatever they believe
they focus on making the opposite view their very favourite peeve.

I wonder what it is about being so convinced
that's so unsatisfying unless the opposition's minced
into tiny pieces of sobbing defeated mess?
What they get from this is anybody's guess.

Now here's the basic tenet which underpins my philosophy,
believe or don't in whatever you want and let the other fellow be.

Michele Brenton aka banana_the_poet 31 December 2011