Religion Is

What's it sell. 
Cheap answers, to deep questions 
Hope for heaven, and fear of hell 
Have morality forced, the mythology? 
Divorced! Mob mentality, illegally coursed 
Intoxicated fatality, humility, or worse. 
An excuse, an explanation, recited, rehearsed. 
All it takes is the right pathology 
To corrupt the innocent , 
and deflower them first. 
The old spider fly Analogy 
Meets the old family curse. 

end

~JRT  July 9th, 2009

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Date: 12/8/2014 6:30:00 PM
Intellectually provoking an full of truth!!! Hopefully we will embrace the greater good more times than not!!!! Xo
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Date: 11/25/2014 3:37:00 AM
Well quite a bit of my older stuff was focused on my condemning Christianity. I had such disgust and abhorrence to organized religion, for many reasons; corruption, greed, bigotry, but as I grew older, I became more spiritual in nature, and discovered that all faiths and philosophies contain wisdom and esoteric insights with lessons to learn. I also realized that the problem is the Literal interpretation of the Bible, its Alegoric. and the blind faith of people too lazy to ask deep Questions
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Joel Thornton
Date: 11/25/2014 3:40:00 AM
And I believe I wrote this as a flashback to my juvenile poetry. It had been a while since I wrote a poem directed at organized religion, and I didn't want to get too rusty at it. =)
Date: 11/24/2014 8:55:00 PM
Joel, Your poems are so deep, I could appreciate your comment following one of your poem... thanks for kindly taking the time to view and comment on mine.
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Date: 11/25/2014 3:43:00 AM
I should've replied to your comment, but I posted instead my own comment on my poem you complimented. Thanks for the encouraging words. Much appreciated
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