Stones built on martyrs are still destructible
The despots living on these stones are more so
But no blade can we bear against them
No earthly weapon
Against their own laws
Enforcing and breaking them in the same action
This darkest hypocricy
These talons that clutch at our world
Rending deep gouges
A far cry from what we want
a demon in the clergy
a beast within the minds
of angels
Yet we are not enough
we are them
we are their dinner feast
with greed they slurp up our minds and actions
preparing for another day of horrors.
Author notes
im not against the church, in fact im christian, i just disagree with a few things theyve done neh?
A contest entry
- A Line In The Sand by almost alex.
450 points, ended February 7, 2008, 7 entries
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Re: authors notes, I'd like to point out that "the church," as it were, has bloodied its hands in the name of this cause or that crusade and has, in its day, probably claimed a few million lives. On the other hand, there are countless thousands of acts of heroism and sacrifice that are committed every day because of the spirit which the church instills and inspires. To be sure, an atheist or an agnostic can do a good deed, however statistics will bear out the fact that these sorts of actions will be much more likely to occur within a group that is, on a weekly basis, inculcated with a commitment to duty, ie. putting one's own life in a position secondary to the wants and needs of others. All the missionaries, doctors, dentists, architects and the like that have sacrificed time, money and position to bring peace, health and prosperity to, especially, the third world, but also to inner cities and to wealthier nations struck by disaster, etc. "The church" has paid restitution a thousand times over in comparison to its short list of transgressions.
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as it were, the church preaches that one good deed does not make up for other transgressions, "Witches" the Cathars and the Arabs are all victims of certain individuals within the church, Like Pope innocent I may have to rewrite this aas i am realising I did not communicate that.
Thanks for the comment ^^
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I was born an atheist and I hope to die an agnostic, though I currently attend a Unitarian Universalist church. I tell you this because your poem definitely makes me appreciate the relative lightness of being I have experienced with a childhood free from the grips of organized religion.
Though I also see the poem as reminding us that pretty much everyone on earth has been affected by the decisions and practices of the worlds few major religions.
to be honest, it seems like a bit of a defeated cry. That is as opposed to an attack, or consrtuctive suggestion or so forth.
which does not any less a poem of it make.
the emotions and thoughts are definitely clearly presented, and the language is rich without going to far.
thanks for entering
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