CHURCH RIDDLE
They came to check for the meaning of life
found only the deadly sins
hiding there with a virtuous face
mistaking them for signs of grace.
Comments
Excellent Ray, quite a feat to say so much in so few words.
And deadly accurate. Lovely poem.
Paul
Don't get me started!
First off, the poem is a pretty verse.
Without a doubt, in the intelligent world, more people are seeing religion for what it has always been. A form of control.
Suffer the children?
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Sat 4th Mar 2017 07:42
ohnonotanotherRiddler! I was never very good at riddles.
But yesterday brought yet another scandal - that of the countless babes buried in an unmarked grave at a former Catholic orphanage in Ireland. Such sad history.
elPintor
Sat 4th Mar 2017 01:55
You know, Ray, I was just having a personal rant about the hypocrisy of religion before I read this. It seems that if you search it out, you could find a new story every single day of your natural born life about the crimes of an institution that claims to be so gd more righteous than the rest of us. I, myself, have had a belly full of it.
I like it short and sweet, Ray--just like you put it, here.
elP
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raypool
Sat 4th Mar 2017 20:24
Thanks so much for picking up my short poem, elP David Graham Colin and Paul. I think we're all agreed; the purveyors of religious texts are constantly seducing us with elaborate ideas, so they deserve a pithy response.
It's especially dodgy when the young are sacrificed to unreachable ideals.
Ray