Nehushtan

Gary Edward Geraci

 

Fallen impulse to throw your

Infant into the Bengal

Den during the weekend trip to

Cameron, the zoo you drove

Four hours to get to,

Tempted to swerve your car into

Oncoming traffic, isn’t

Your lack of sanity, it’s

Your fallen nature, no one

Escapes it either, however

Pronounced or unpronounced, the

Urge to betray your husband,

What people do, with no moral

Compass, to one another,

No pole of serpents to gaze on,

No Cross of Christ to look upon.

 

Gary Edward Geraci

  • Author: Gary Edward Geraci (Offline Offline)
  • Published: June 12th, 2021 17:11
  • Comment from author about the poem: Pray for grace dear friends, pray for grace.
  • Category: Spiritual
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  • Doggerel Dave

    Come on Gary – you can do better than this. You surely know that someone can have and live by a moral framework without the necessity of a religious faith.
    For some perhaps it is better, easier to have faith and adhere to its moral guidance – provided, that is, they do adhere.

    • Saxon Crow

      ........ Is your own personal opinion Dave!

      • Doggerel Dave

        Would you like to clarify, Sax?
        Objective fact - are you suggesting that without religion no one can or does behave morally?

        • Saxon Crow

          Not at all mate. Im suggesting everyone lives their own life and there is no wrong or right. Which paradoxically contradicts my original statement to you

          Dave we are enteringninto a monty python sketch lol

          • Doggerel Dave

            Monty Python? With statements like 'no wrong or right' it would be more than easy to do.
            But you can relax Saxon, 'cos I aint going there......

            • Saxon Crow

              Chicken lol

              • Doggerel Dave

                Chicken? Bull shit - I'm vegetarian.
                And take a look at 'no wrong or right' - what is that?

                • Saxon Crow

                  Lol.

                  No wrong or right - as in it's all relative

                  • Doggerel Dave

                    Get a grip Saxon - I don't know where or what you are at, and I'm not sure you do either..

                  • Gary Edward Geraci

                    IMO Religion continues to form people morally in ways secular society simply cannot. I’ve read of moral IQ too…Clearly, there are ample examples of the consequences of low moral IQs in the world today (and yesterday). Peace.

                    • Doggerel Dave

                      Peace to you too, Gary. My only point is is the question: Do you think that "low moral IQ's" are the exclusive property of secular society while all those with religion are morally pure?

                      • Gary Edward Geraci

                        Doggerel Dave - the problems of low moral IQs are equal opportunity problems - the religious are certainly not exempt. In fact, the great religious scandals are of such a blow to the faithful precisely because we would expect greater fortitude, temperance, and good example from our religious leaders and clerics - given their positions and learning.



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