So Help Me God

Religion has too many givens,
the takeaways few, far between

Questioning ravaged, intelligence savaged
—the mind left to wander and dream

(Bryn Mawr College: February, 2020)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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Blanca Avatar
February 11, 2020 at 9:15 PM
The kind of religion that makes a person look sick cannot be expected to cure the world. True religion is love in action.
Behm Avatar
February 11, 2020 at 9:55 PM
God is love in action, not religion. Religion is the playbill to the movie—mostly bad.
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