A Pyrrhic Victory

The New Atheists wants my religion
But not my God.
They want the assumption of Humanism
Without the power to uphold it.

I say, that's the worst form of Christianity
Is one circumcised from faith
But perfunctorily doing its rituals of communion and baptism,
Preaching its platitudes and politics
And worried more about worldly problems
Than a man's soul.
I know, because that's the kind of church I grew up in.