So much passes for Christianity today. For instance recall the anti gay marriage county clerk Kim Davis from Kentucky who has been in the news the last week or so. She is so much in favor of dual sex marriage that she has done it a number of times. Not one of the times she married did she marry a woman. She is completely opposed to same sex marriage and it is a religious principle for her.
The spectacle of her refusing to do her job and being jailed amidst claims of religious persecution seems preposterous to me. I'm happy her faith did not include eating her young as Christians have been accused of doing in the early years of the faith. If it did she would have those who support her. They would also claim persecution. You can be sure of that.
I was thinking of her antics and wondering if she would get fired for not doing her job or be sent back to jail. That was part of the inspiration for the poem. The second part of the inspiration came from Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians. It is called the love chapter. See if you can find a reason for Kim Davis's decision in it.
If Jesus were to return to the church today like he did when he chased the money changers from the temple would he say to the leaders: "My Father's house is a house of love, and you have made it a house of hate?"
Inspired by the actions of Kim Davis done
in the name of Christ
along with a couple Christian Presidents
who lied us into war.
The
Church has begun shouting,
dividing
us with church and state;
truth
in the mouths of liars
turns
into falsehood, fear and hate.
Love
is much more than a word
it’s
a seed sown by the heart,
where
peace springs up binding together
what
church and state have torn apart.
When
no light shines in the sky above
and
darkness fills the land,
light
in your heart the lamp of love
and
undivided we will stand.
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