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Pious Deception

Religion
is the death of God
conscripting Him away

Cloaked in false
propriety
enlightenment at bay

Religion 
is the death of God
scriptures to mislead

All piety
a false disguise
worshipping the creed

Religion
is the death of God
whose armies rage and burn

Killing
in the name of One
—whose love they claim to yearn

(The New Room: December, 2023)

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Hilda Greenhough

December 22, 2023 at 12:27 PM

So it appears that the voice of this poem does believe in God. Churches have done a lot to water down belief. Many church goers want personal exaltation. Church is OK, it just needs to be brought up to the current times. Your poem is edgy and gives me a lot to think about, as seen above.

Kurt Philip Behm

December 22, 2023 at 2:18 PM

Thanks Hilda, I was a Philosophy / Theology major thru graduate school. I taught both to undergraduates back in the early seventies. In spite of the impression I may have given, I am a devout non-dogmatic believer. I believe that (Like Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed and Crazy Horse) we all have the ability to become Divine. Uncovering that great mystery, which resides deeply inside all of us, is the true purpose of life. All of the examples I mentioned achieved Divinity without a dogmatic approach, speaking from their hearts and thru their actions. Kurt

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