Almost Religion
Observing the many bizarre protests in Marienplatz Munich today...
The secular faith
imitates religion
and stops there.
Faux beliefs.
Pretend concerns.
Causes without roots.
Ritual without truth.
Concern without care.
Protest is confession:
“I stand for something.
I am a good person.”
Professing selflessness
is public penance
for private selfishness.
Redemption supposed
comes by hating evil loudly,
not real evil,
but the kind imagined.
Righteous anger
without righteousness
is only anger.
Signs raised high,
chants rehearsed,
doctrinal drama,
a theater of thespian virtue.
I hear it in German
but this religion
has no borders.
(Das Kreischen und Jammern,
das Schreien und Klirren.
Das Trommeln und Klingeln,
das Tanzen und Singen,
alles umsonst,
nutzloser Dampf.)
The screeching and wailing,
the shouting and clanging,
the drumming and ringing,
the dancing and singing,
all noise,
all vapor.
Gays for Palestine
shout at gays for Israel.
“Trans for women,”
shout at women,
yet unable to say
what a woman is.
Atonement by agitation.
Logic dissolves.
Reason drifts away.
The cause achieves nothing.
The devil’s creed is simple:
do what feels right,
not what is right.
Invert every standard
God has set.
Yet for all the discord
on one doctrine
there is agreement:
Eliminate the Jews.
Defile Jesus.
Ban His book.
Cancel His people.
Welcome
to the worldly church,
preaching heaven on earth,
while stealthily
delivering hell.
