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King George II


Why is it that the death of kings
is more important than the death of any man?
Shall not sweet God see that our souls
are royal too?
Now in this day of presidents
when royalty resides
but in the mind—
where kings need fight no more
but watch as unnamed soldiers die
on every side—
our God can open mouths to aid us find a way
beyond pre-emptive war or any war;
to lay our weapons down. We know that war
is just the death of everyman and everywoman.
Yes, our God remembers what the prophet said
through lips of Jeremiah.
Here:

"The prophet false
says there is peace
where peace,
there is no more."

And if we heed the call
then we shall fail no more.


The unforgivable sin is to pretend to have the knowledge of God—putting on a false face as though you were a religious leader in order to garner personal gain. Yes it is the unforgivable sin and monarchs throughout history have practiced it. It is seeking churches to mobilize voters in your name. It is violating the sanctity of the separation of church and state—using honorable Jewish and Christian souls to manage a political campaign.

Why is this important? Because while the mystical knowledge of spirit is a Godsend, religion can easily become the concretization of spirit. We must make sure our religion is based in spirit and not in dogma, which can be used by false leaders to hold their own place of power. Spirit concretized is worthless or dangerous.

When government becomes the repository of religion-based politics we risk the loss of the very spirit of our nation, imagining ourselves as saviors. In the old cowboy movies, you could always tell the good guy, on a white horse, wearing a white hat, white chaps, even white boots. The bad guy's hat was black. And it still is. The darker the demeanor, the greater the evil. It is our country's crusade to destroy darkness. I say, "Take Back the Night." The pilgrims knew how religion could destroy. The Crusaders knew how religion could destroy. The Muslim invaders of Europe knew how religion could destroy. Now we invade Iraq. It is the white, Christian Bush Crusade. Bush even called it a crusade. The destruction of the Muslim infidels. Do you not think the Muslim people see this as a crusade? They, the dark ones, are fighting for their lives. It is a genocide in which we have murdered over 100,000 civilians.

One of the greatest dangers is the use of a symbol. The Nazis used a rabbi by placing him in their hierarchy as though he could save some Jews. In the Congo, we placed Mobutu in power pretending we gave the Congo independence, while stealing their diamonds, their cobalt and the lives of their people. The Romans made a King of the Jews. As long as Jesus wouldn't make trouble. Colin Powell was the symbol of our time. Powell was sent to the United Nations. It was known there were no weapons of mass destruction. Our use of him was a blasphemy to lie as though we were acting in name of truth. I am sad that Powell went down in the flame of the destruction of truth. It seems we are afraid of stating the truth in our major newspapers, perhaps because we are afraid of the repercussions of the Patriot Act. As Orwell saw so well, government can be used against us.

Who has knowledge of God's will? Imposing political will upon the spirit of the nation through lies is blasphemous—an immorality that cannot be forgiven.

And we? We need to Take Back the Day.

References:

Mark 3:22 quoting Jesus, Whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven.
Declaration of Independence re: King George III of England
Shakespeare, Richard II, a king whose ultimate failure comes through war, a play censored by monarch after monarch in their time.
Jer 1:9 I have put my words in thy mouth.
Jer 6:14-15 (interpretation) The prophets need to warn the people that lies are the cause of impending judgments, but instead they say there is nothing to fear. This is not a slight wound because leading the nation to war on falsehoods is immoral. Immorality cannot lead to peace or to a moral political state.
They ought to be ashamed. They shall fall with the rest of their people who are doomed to fall.

 

Author's Comments:


The poem was written in Chapel Hill, NC during the Playmakers Theater wonderful performance of Shakespeare's Richard II.

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