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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (26115)11/22/1998 10:00:00 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Emile, what do you call loving?
Taking away a man's culture
His language
His living
His land?

Changing beliefs
Beating prayers into children
Insisting that babies be born
Who will starve and die
Because of ideology
And the power of numbers?

There is plenty of darkness
And death everywhere
It litters the road leading to Christ
And let us not forget that Jesus
Was not a Christian.

It was a strange violence
Which grew up around the memory
Of a charismatic country preacher
Nothing to do with him at all
Out of his control
You could pass him on the road
And he would love you
While he roused the rabble

Maybe he lives today on the streets
of San Francisco, unrecognized
Homeless, and maybe not.
Maybe he is laughing with Siddhartha.
But he did not burn anyone at the stake
Or spread smallpox
Or pocket the wealth
Of the primitive world
Or conquer countries and continents.

Did you know that the Pope
Is holding a tribunal
In the year 2000 to find out
What really happened at the
Inquisition and try to heal

The bad karma it left on the earth?
Now that is a little bit Christ-like.

You want to talk about confusion and
Despair and terror
Lazy hatred and dark disguise?
Look no further. I do not know why
But the road to Christ itself
Leads often to darkness and death.

How can you reassure all
To follow you to Harpsville
A place no one has ever even seen?
Maybe there are just racks and
Drawing and quartering devices
For torture, like those millions
Of women endured at hell on earth.
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