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Schweinfleisch

  I saw the belly of the pig so I sat and I ate. And it was smokey butter. I saw the healed third head of an evil beast once damaged. Be wary, oh Christian. I saw danger in the glassy eyes of an old man in white, a man who disrespects God and sullys his name. Horrors! Horrors! Jerusalem is overrun with villainous men, men who murdered our King in the dusty streets. I saw him, the AntiChrist leading the brigade. And you called him by his name: Benedict, John. I saw cold, glowing eyes. I saw pure evil pulling people’s way from God and Son, my King. I saw murderous men in the streets of Jerusalem, in the ruins of Rome rising up, making an ugly name for my God til no one trusted him! Men like John Paul, and with names like Pius, Urban, and Alexander. Satan’s, all. I saw them with arms raised false prophets, all. I saw their abuse of children and I wept and grew angry at the smearing of my God. I saw their alignment with the Nazi regime in the second world war and grew dismayed. I saw them! The evil false - Christian church draining its congregations of HOPE, HOPE and LOVE, the very tenets of our faith I saw them! Murderer’s, all and bloody liars! Faithless, souless devils they. Arrrrrrgghhhhhh! Hands to the sky "when will you avenge your people, oh Lord my God?" And fall down, broken, weeping, clutching my shirt. I saw them, every one of them burning for their crimes. I saw myself burning in the middle of the fire. Oh, that I could burn!                       
— Conect11, Jul 17, 2007

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weirdelf

18 years 10 months ago

OMFG, this is brilliant!

I love you like a brother man, and that's from someone who used to graffiti "turn a flamethrower on a christian, they turn the other cheek and get nicely done". You know the difference between personal belief and organised power bases calling themselves religion. And poeticly, how it all came in a moment of eating pig. Dig it! cheers, Jess
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Conect11

18 years 10 months ago

thanks

for your extra crispy comment, Jess! If we ever do meet remind me to never sit next to you at the BBQ. Religion is dead, a man and devil made trap to lure people away from God. While not trying to pass judgement (I am a sinner after all) the catholic church is one of the gravest evils out there, IMHO. Why do you think the other "side" is called PROTESTants? God is a good and Gracious Father and His name gets dragged through the mud every single day by all of us, but by these power trippers especially. Mark
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barbsdad2003

18 years 10 months ago

Such Passion!

You touch nicely on the hypocrisy at the core of modern formalized Christianity. Though it rings so true of Protestant leaders, it's especially true of Roman Catholic. Much appreciated. Regards, Chuck PS: Note that my father was a Methodist minister, and he was the liberal one in the family. The Fundamentalists branched in all directions. I had a claustrophobic childhood.
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Quillsvein1

18 years 10 months ago

Excellent job

Your intellectual lucidity shines with more brightness here than in any poem I've read of yours before--you are drawing a firm line of demarcation between the corrupt, decaying hypocrisy of organized religion and the vitality of actual individual belief--great job. (I'm Roman Catholic myself, and I still agree with everything you say here!)