Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption. ~ Wes Fesler

All the gold, mine for the taking

If theft is the toll, so be it

Respect will follow 

They call me saviour

A prophet with a side hustle

Prayer caravans, roaming the land

Admission a mere fifteen dollars

A desperate fee for heaven’s gate

But tell me when did God start accepting bribes

And how long until hell yawns wide

To swallow this parade of vacant eyes and hollow hearts

Marching to the rhythm of salvation-for-sale

 

 

Reviews

[MomzillaNC]

This is the prosperity gospels in a nutshell. Well penned.

[MCS]

Thank you for reading and commenting. I truly appreciate it. While I didn’t intend to invoke a biblical theme, the imagery naturally surfaced. We’ve all heard stories of those marked by God: the Israelites, whose doorposts were painted with the blood of the Passover lamb to spare them from the final plague in Egypt; and the righteous in Ezekiel’s vision, marked with the letter ‘T’ on their foreheads to protect them during divine judgment. In contrast, there are those whose words betray them by always speaking crap and it's only fitting that their mark should be an anal sphincter where one traditionally has a mouth.

[MomzillaNC]

Except, the prosperity gospels are not biblical. Nothing in the Bible sacradizes wealth.