Nature promised man little.
Many working poor rage against God for their place.
The water is too deep, so we drift through life.
A little more wind for the sails might help.
But does it send you more toward Heaven or Hell?
Workers’ scarred bodies and stained souls
are of the class of the risen carpenter savior.
Does such a struggling life put one in God’s favor?
If not, it is a cruel joke on God’s part.
Must one work so hard for salvation?
What was their sin and was it so horrible?
These workers have earned and are justified
in an answer from God right now.
Do angels understand soot and dirt under fingernails?
God has graced the wealthy with heavenly neighborhoods,
where another order of beings can look down on the poor.
Gates on an Earth world separating thine and mine.
It looks like money has spoken worldwide.
What have religions done for the working class?
Churches built by the wealthy
try to quell the unrest of the working class.
Quell their chance for worker solidarity,
on the worker’s one day of rest in a week.
It could be a day to organize and enlighten their
degraded souls to rise and worship at the altar of solidarity.
Raising up those who work side by side together.
The preachers promise the downtrodden a better hereafter.
Suffering now earns a payday later.
Pie in the sky BS indeed.
Why a sunbeam might appear and change everything.
They say God works in mysterious ways.
I don’t care for mysteries or science fiction.
I’m wondering if religious text isn’t just a fable.
No one has a signed copy of the Bible.
It was written in a room with monks
distracted by drinking lots of wine.
It did warn us not to accept apples from women
and not to trust our brother as he might kill us.
To memorialize Abraham’s faith,
his son was named,” Isaac,” meaning “laughter.”
The Bible like all holy books
needs more “Isaac” and joy.
That might make it more palatable.
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