Den of Thieves

Den of Thieves

In public pious, your purple robes rustle,
whilst chanting prayers in dead rendition.
Lining your pockets is your biggest hustle,
never minding your flock's dire condition.

Our Father's words hidden in Vatican City,
whilst you give us evil translations to suit your desires.
Of the poor and meek, where is thy pity?
Glory in your rewards now, for your destiny is Hell's fires.

You have led the flock astray in wicked greed,
whilst the Holy Spirit surely hath grieved.
And still we cry, "the captives are not freed!"
Because of thy transgressions, they've been deceived!

Splasharama Round 4 (My good friend, Larry, may you rest in the loving arms of Christ).

"Religion driving people away."  Miami (Florida) Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. The article was published in the March 15th edition of the Lawrence Journal-World in Lawrence, Kansas.

Who can be surprised if the sheer absurdity, fundamentalist cruelty and ungodly hypocrisy that have characterized so much "religion" in the last 30 years have driven people away? If all I knew of God was what I had seen in the headlines, I would not be eager to make His acquaintance. I am thankful I know more,
Including that God and religion are not synonymous. God is, for the faithful at least, the sovereign creator of all creation. Religion is what men and women put in place, ostensibly to worship and serve Him. Too often, though, religion worships and serves that which has nothing to do with Him, worships money and serves politics, worships charisma and serves ego, worships intolerance and serves itself.


Prompt: Write a poem about anything you have read in the above lines or any feelings or thoughts sparked within you by the lines.