Not the Jesus You Were Looking For

The Living God has moved on 
Jesus in his memory, cherry taillights
Receding down a long desert highway
Jesus’ words were, and still are, 
The only true gold
The ones that were actually his
All else is ruse

There is still divine wholeness 
The two basic polarities remain
Light/darkness, atonement/isolation,
Order/dissolution, love/hate 
That other pole remains a 
Polished, tantalizing, well-advertised
Abyss of suffering and decay
As it always was

Echoes of the Word can still be heard
Through the cavernous edifice that bears His name
But two millennia of editing, revising
Using the Word for purposes less than divine
Has reduced it to echoes only
God can be found through His words
Or forever lost through their subversion

Walk like this, talk like this, do it right
Stand up, sit down, fight, fight, fight
If you read him, he was anything but
A conformist tyrant
Don’t believe me?
Just ask a Pharisee  
They’re not hard to find
So now riddle me
Why you think dogma and rigidity
Are the pathway to the divine?

To some this will be blasphemy
But not to the Living God

6/16/16
©Thomas W. Quigley

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016



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Date: 8/26/2016 11:59:00 AM
I love it. Very much.
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Date: 6/21/2016 10:58:00 AM
Very thought provoking!
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Tom Quigley
Date: 6/21/2016 8:27:00 PM
Thank you, Carol!
Date: 6/20/2016 5:26:00 AM
Well spoken dear Tom! What is more important for our Lord is not for us to repeat the words He has pronounced but to act according to the words pronounced! A seven, my friend!
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Tom Quigley
Date: 6/20/2016 11:56:00 PM
Thanks, Demetrios!
Date: 6/16/2016 3:29:00 PM
Some very valid points Tom there is a reason why the churches are empty, they do not represent the truth of God, they paint him as a cruel torturer of souls and then wonder why people don't come back.I wonder if Jesus came back today would they kill him again? Nicely done!
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Tom Quigley
Date: 6/16/2016 9:15:00 PM
Thanks, John!
Date: 6/16/2016 8:17:00 AM
LOVE this, Tom! A lot of truth here. This could go in that contest about not mincing words! Well done.
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Tom Quigley
Date: 6/16/2016 9:16:00 PM
Thank you, Becca! Maybe I'll throw it in that one too...
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