Nixon, huh? Funny that I should have just picked up The Poetry of Pablo Naruda (published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux) at the bookstore tonight. Opened at nearly random to A Call for the Destruction of Nixon and Praise for the Chilean Revolution:
to set down the name of this villain
who practices genocide from the White House.
If the path to Jehovah is through faith in his Son, as was repeatedly drummed into me, then He's cruel and capricious for his treatment of perfectly good folk with no faith or different faith.
If it requires more than that, then there is no hope unless you're one of those who can bring yourself to think that your way is the right way and everyone else is wrong. How much more cruel and capricious?
And so I conclude that going into darkness forever would be a kinder fate. Knowing completely and consciously that I chose and was not merely driven would be a better path.
But, strangely, for my contact with people of faith for so many years, I admire good people with faith for the love they manifest and am deeply ashamed for all the ways I've seen them spurn others who disagreed, who were unable to agree, or who didn't know there was an argument to be had.
I am very tired of watching a small few bend the truth to breaking, dragging others more worthy after them.
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