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
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- Comment from author about the poem: Pray for grace dear friends, pray for grace.
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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.
........ Is your own personal opinion Dave!
Would you like to clarify, Sax?
Objective fact - are you suggesting that without religion no one can or does behave morally?
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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.
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?
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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