Book of Boondock Saint - Letter to the Christians, page 3

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reply posted on 13-10-2010 @ 04:53 PM by boondock-saint

reply to post by DogsDogsDogs

yes, miracles do happen
and IMO is something
we need more of in the world.

reply posted on 13-10-2010 @ 04:58 PM by masqua

reply to post by boondock-saint

No offense taken... I was writing a piece 'off the top of my head' and that's what came out.

Visions of God smiting NYC and killing everybody in it. Reminded me of the Cathar slaughters sanctioned by the Holy Roman Church (possibly

) This IS, after all, the Writing forum.

Anyways... trained soldiers during the Crusades? Yes, maybe as brass, but certainly not the masses gathered as they went from town to town on their way to Jerusalem.

But, I digress.

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reply posted on 13-10-2010 @ 04:59 PM by quantum_flux

That is freakin' hilarious!

reply posted on 13-10-2010 @ 05:25 PM by boondock-saint

Originally posted by quantum_flux
That is freakin' hilarious!

no offense here
but I'm glad we don't share
the same sense of humor.

reply posted on 13-10-2010 @ 05:31 PM by quantum_flux

reply to post by boondock-saint

You just felt like writing that stuff and then addressing it to the Christians? That writing is at least more coherent than anything in the Bible, and yet equally as absurd too.

reply posted on 13-10-2010 @ 05:32 PM by masqua

reply to post by boondock-saint

BTW, I'd like you to know
My God is better in a way.
Mine is right here
While t'other seems far away.

Mine fills up my heart.
T'other resides up above
Mine represents everything
and t'other is a dove(?)

My God doesn't play dice.
It won't deem to judge or kill.
T'other God doesn't play nice.
Bending everyone to His will.

My God isn't human.
It's all living things-
From parsnips to people
and all things between.

My God is the universe.
Its omnimind is pure.
And you won't need your purse.
To buy a quick cure.

My God doesn't take umbrage
with anyone's thought
and won't take to outrage
over some ill-cast lot.

Our Gods only agree on one true thing.
That prayer works wonders to all who do.
So, I pray to my God
just as you do too.

*please, God, spare those people in NYC*

reply posted on 13-10-2010 @ 05:46 PM by boondock-saint

reply to post by masqua

and what miracles has your God performed?
Does he/she/it have any books in print
so I can check it out?
thanks

reply posted on 13-10-2010 @ 05:50 PM by masqua

Originally posted by boondock-saint
reply to post by masqua

and what miracles has your God performed?

Open your eyes and look around you. That's the miracle. My God IS the universe.

Does he/she/it have any books in print
so I can check it out?

Nope. My God doesn't need books or churches. My God IS books, churches, parnips and people too.

thanks

You're welcome.

I dunno, BDS... does this belong in some other forum? I feel like we're debating here.

reply posted on 13-10-2010 @ 06:17 PM by boondock-saint

reply to post by masqua

lol, I'm not debating,
just trying to understand
your POV and what
you believe.

And I think it is appropriately situated
in short stories as that is what the OP
actually is ... a short story.

reply posted on 13-10-2010 @ 07:11 PM by masqua

Originally posted by boondock-saint
reply to post by masqua

lol, I'm not debating,
just trying to understand
your POV and what
you believe.

Cool.

Don't think I could have put things more succintly than in the poem I created for this thread. I did it, and the 'crusades' post' as a result of what went on in my own mind after reading your OP. Hope you don't mind me penning reactions.

And I think it is appropriately situated
in short stories as that is what the OP
actually is ... a short story.

I think it's a good spot too. Applause-worthy even.

Quite often, when something spurs my creativity here, I enjoy writing responses in a similar vein. That's what I've been doing here so far.

Speaking of which, I wrote something a long time ago that might apply. I don't much believe in Heaven or Hell. Here's my take on how it all goes down:

Murmuring whispers
tugging me through,
my bodiless radiance
flashing gold hue
Loves' embrace true.

Ascending above
mortality's stain,
stinking corpse lying
below shall remain
discarding completely
an earthly domain
of discord and madness
and pitiless pain.

Minds' incarnate
freedom found
re-membered
for getting
knowing profound
the leavings
the findings

and the next go-around.

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