Roman conquest introduced new religion
law and customs.
Christianization was also influenced by Celtic Christianity
and it was sanctioned through the ages.
Many of our priests went straight to God
as stones thrown on entrenchments,
persecuted, tortured, martyred,
only because of their faith.
They were servants of true God.
Were is exoneration of noble and just?
Our catholic king, Canute said,
”There is no king but Jesus”.
Can you be at peace,
denying it to others?
Can you proclaim the freedom,
if you oppress the people?
POLITICALLY RELIGIOUS PUNDITRY
and as the tide of mindless babble receded
whispering through the foaming bubbles,
giggling in the lather of their lies, smoothing
the unsuspecting edges of the irate populace
with the blandly pathetic pablum on which
they subsist, a rogue wave broke upon the
barren beach, tore the moorings of the past
from their entrenchments, cleansed the sands
of the needless detritus of failures filth, surged
through all the alleyways of wealth and power,
washing from their hands the stain of greed,
and in withdrawing left a stinging message -
repent - or I return.
John G. Lawless
9/30/2014
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