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This has given me pause, and I think that’s the mark of a good poem.
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Thank you, Kaylena. I’m glad that this spoke to you. 🙂
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Deep, I like your poem. It somehow relates to my fave movie “ring of the nibelungs”.
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A movie that I seriously should check out! I’ve heard a lot about it!
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This was a pleasure to read. Interesting approach to the subject.
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Thank you very much!
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The dictionary took his pages
& mouth the words
W/0 there appropriate
Sounds all the letters
Stood patiently waiting
When asked his lips passed
nothing but letters
To spell was elementary
From his sounds came the words
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That’s a perfect accompaniment to the poem, Sheldon. Thank you. 😀
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It made me cry TS, that you find religion a man’s game, set unto himself.
True, my God is very jealous, that we should have none other above Him. Mockery and jest are two of those.
I was hoping that instead you could condemn those who ‘hold’ the Crucifixion as a piety, instead of just a terrible way to die.
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To be perfectly honest, Philip, I don’t enjoy the thought that this poem might cause offence to any of the faithful that might read it. However, I do have decades of misguided piety of my own that I need to unlearn and shed, and writing about it is a much needed part of that process. I’m glad you read this anyway. It can’t have been easy to sit through. 😦
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Certain linguistic anthropologists think that religion is a language virus that re-writes pathways in the brain, dulls critical thinking.
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey, he said for you to give me your fucking share”
-True Detective S1E3
The worst thing about today’s religion is the followers themselves. Religion makes no sense to me too.
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I wish I’d always had your view on it, my friend. I used to be pretty religious for a while there. Thank god I came to my senses. 😛
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Tony, I love your mind.
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Thank you, Kindra. That’s a compliment I won’t soon forget. (Blush!)
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Seriously, you and I are pretty simpatico regarding these topics.
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I didn’t always think along similar lines to you, Kindra. Thankfully, I did eventually come to my senses. 😛
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Hooray!!! 🙂
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I like your poems but I find the links a bit off-putting. Why do you put them in?
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That’s a fair criticism, Sarada. Basically we love to provide little breadcrumbs to other things that our readers might be interested in reading, like a funhouse maze of mirrors or something. 😛
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In “The Devil Next Store,” a psychologist categories “spiritual abuse” as a common source of psychological trauma. It’s the tendency of an adult to place themselves between the child and god.
Here’s an answer to your implied question, Tony, offered by someone that has chosen to use scripture to bring healing into the world: https://everdeepening.com/2014/12/25/whose-free-will-is-it-anyways/
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Thanks, Brian.
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Tony
This is challenging, strong and definitely worthwhile
Well done!
john
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Thank you so much, John! This subject is of particular, personal interest to me, so I’m glad my poem spoke to you!
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