The Church of my youth
the Holy Roman Catholic Church
(a sobriquet as undeserved as
Holy Roman Empire)
gives me so very many reasons
to despise her
not least of which is
the stranglehold
of ridiculous old men
who call the Church
HER
as they rape her
But those old men
have ordained readings
for each day
from God’s word
And those old men
or their direct ancestors
decided for themselves
what was worthy
to be
GOD’S
inerrant word
declared so by those
raping sodomizing old men
God’s
WORD
as filtered through them
includes the book called
Tobit
where today I read
of a young woman
Sarah
possessed by a demon
Asmodeus
who strangles her husband
on their wedding night
before they have intercourse
But, wait, the best is yet to come:
This happens seven times
YES!
seven times to seven young men
before the angel
Raphael
intervenes
to save the eighth
who, sadly, was not named
Henry
So although I would love to despise
the Holy Roman Catholic Church
completely
HOW
can I not retain some affection
for an entity that includes
TOBIT
as
divine word
filtering
GOD
to
ME?
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