political hackers bending laws exploiting flaws words twisted into new codes that mold lies and fears into for-profit-ventures like televangelists’ sermons funding carnal pleasures with nonredeemable promises
after being robbed a fool was asked by a man on the street for alms his empty purse was given turns out the man was the thief purse sold for a fine profit
tell me mister christian if it were your wife daughter or child groped and raped by the president would you be as forgiving as you’ve been so far freely supporting the evil that’s been done to others
i’ve noticed that you’ve begun to talk to shadows and wait quietly for their reply one that never comes but still you wait like some marble monument depicting an unknown saint slain in the service of an unknown god i suspect that you do not see the encroaching darkness nor understand the perils of your compromising you’re too engrossed in your dreams of power to see or hear death’s proclamation i claim your soul for serving the god apate
the names of their true gods adorn their bumper stickers embossed with their mindless mantras those carefully contrived scriptures from an ad agency after being thoroughly researched by behavioral scientists and predicted to be on par with the gospel convincing even saints to vote for the devil
to some the almighty is a bobbing head on a dashboard accompanied by a string of artificial pearls suspending a wholesale gold plated man made representation of the divine a modern day version of the biblical golden calf depending on which wine inspired text you’ve read but putting that aside the drive by religious blessors tabulating televangelist who’ve found gold now find sin far more acceptable including that of a national rapist adulterer and liar as long as their financials continue to look good prayer book partiers who encourage you to tune in while they tune out the true message but you should stay tuned judgement day of some sort or another is bound to happen
after so much dialogue about prayer this past week i was wondering what aunt bea thought about all this public combat on religious observances so i stopped by on my way home from work she said public prayer lets folks know you have something in common with them or serves as a how great i art vulgar marketing ploy but private prayer lets you have an uninterrupted conversation with the divine it makes folks feel better to have expressed what is already known one thing’s for sure prayer for power is not the same as the power of prayer