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"Mr. Jesus, Tear Down This Church"

12/25/2017

 
Twenty-one years ago, albeit not on Christmas morning, I wrote a poem of a different tenor.
"Let me be Christian, with unsullied heart"
Is what I wrote to thee, those years ago,
But vile men tear the Christmas dream apart,
To make a cudgel with it even so.

If this then be thy sword, Lord Jesus Christ,
I vow these so-called evangelicals
Abhorrent to my sight; to thine, I wist,
As they preach in the squares and shopping malls.

How far they stray, beyond the point of hope,
As they both urge and agitate for hatred,
Invective leading toward the lynch-mob's rope,
As to base impulse their base cant has catered.

I disavow these men, Americans:
Lord, tear this church down when you have a chance.


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