More the imagination more damnation
Where would Earth be without Galileo’s lens
The Truth dares us in the face – condemnation
Ancient Greeks refined the mind spirit nation
And yet let their gods abuse their common sense
More the imagination more damnation
All roads led to Rome and the Inquisition
El Hidalgo de la Mancha’s comeuppance
The Truth dares us in the face – condemnation
Quixotic souls in windmills seek ruination
Who made Socrates take hemlock in Athens
More the imagination more damnation
Which mundane god revealed depths of Creation
Which holy tract mysteries of Existence
The Truth dares us in the face – condemnation
Hermeneutics – art of deviation
How we love to split mythic hairs with incense
More the imagination more damnation
The Truth dares us in the face – condemnation
Monseigneur Don Ron, Bonjour! Nice to see you're "spiritual/religious (?), too, like those you I thought you spurned or pitied? Proof: 'Sometimes I wish that we were more pragmatic and less spiritual...'
I'm a bit surprised that your superior intelligence fails you where you should be reading what is put on your plate to eat raw and rough.
The case is simple as it is evident. What one is tutored to believe from the cradle, one will only surrender (at Death) by slitting the other's un-godly throat. For the White Man and his lackeys, Christ can be split-up so long as other material interests can be served: Euro-America versus Putin's Russia as at the moment. Throughout history the same repetitions take their toll - musical chairs, My Friend ! - so long as the Christian Church is not made to look subservient to another's Temple. What a sorry plight for Humanity!!!
From what I gather from your poem, the real world suffers for the meddling of mythical spirits.
Sometimes I wish that we were more pragmatic and less spiritual. Instead of praying to ease the suffering of those lost to stupid mindless hatred, get busy and do something about it. Solve a difficult problem rather than dance around it with rhetoric tinged with religious overtones. Preventing reality to just roll up its sleeves and get to work in an endless cycle of talk and no action.
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I'm a bit surprised that your superior intelligence fails you where you should be reading what is put on your plate to eat raw and rough.
The case is simple as it is evident. What one is tutored to believe from the cradle, one will only surrender (at Death) by slitting the other's un-godly throat. For the White Man and his lackeys, Christ can be split-up so long as other material interests can be served: Euro-America versus Putin's Russia as at the moment. Throughout history the same repetitions take their toll - musical chairs, My Friend ! - so long as the Christian Church is not made to look subservient to another's Temple. What a sorry plight for Humanity!!!
Sometimes I wish that we were more pragmatic and less spiritual. Instead of praying to ease the suffering of those lost to stupid mindless hatred, get busy and do something about it. Solve a difficult problem rather than dance around it with rhetoric tinged with religious overtones. Preventing reality to just roll up its sleeves and get to work in an endless cycle of talk and no action.
Ron