"If your only reason not to harm is a warning carved in stone, you were never good. You were afraid. There's a difference. It was never holiness. It was fear, polished for the pulpit, pressed into Sunday best." -Eira Quinn

Being afraid of consequences is not the same as being good.
We should stop pretending it is.
#lettherebethought #poetrythatquestions #religiousdeconstruction

Let There Be Thought by Eira Quinn Tear down their thrones. Set fire to the books that taught you to kneel. Unlearn every prayer whispered in fear, every law carved to break you. Let there be thought— wild, defiant, burning clean through the lies. Let it rise where dogma falls. Let it howl where silence reigned. No more kings of heaven. No more chains in the name of light. Only this: your mind, unclaimed, alive.

Made some paper, typed a poem, took it outside. Now I’m happy.🌿

#LetThereBeThought #PoetryThatQuestions #HandmadePaper #ReligiousDeconstruction #IndiePoet

We found each other
after the world gave up on us.
We built bonfires
from their holy books—
danced around them,
barefoot and alive
for the first time.

—Eira Quinn

#ReligiousDeconstruction #FeministPoetry #AliveAtLast #LetThereBeThought #SacredDefiance #WeFoundEachOther

“And I see it now: I was not born of a rib. I was born of rage and water and survival. I was made to see clearly. And I do. The garden was a lie. The serpent told the truth. And paradise built on silence was never paradise at all.” — Eira Quinn, Let There Be Thought

🐍 I wasn’t made to obey—I was made to see. If truth is rebellion, then let the garden burn.

#DivineDefiance #TheSerpentSpokeTruth #ParadiseWasAScript #BornOfSurvival #ReligiousRebellion #LetThereBeThought #HolyRage

“We remember
that God was a woman
before they rewrote the script.
And no matter how loud they preach,
how hard they pray to the sky—
the earth still knows
who made her.”

— Eira Quinn, Let There Be Thought

🌒 For the daughters of fire and memory.

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