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Voice of the World (Free verse) by Dovina

They call us Third World below the Second below the First because we have less produce less suffer more But three are really one these days we can help you understand come and let us show you hear the One World voice Osama gives us food teaches kids to read Musharraf gives promises and sewage in the street Work all day to buy a chicken or dine on scraps of rich don’t say we have democracy and allies in the West Fill not the mouth of famine if you fear to make us strong but feed the brains of young ones not yet won to jihad’s cause Come and give them options show them one big world maybe we will kill you maybe they will not

Dovina 6-May-08/5:43 PM
Your summary of the Faith in Paragraph 2 follows roughly the Apostle Paul’s development in Romans, and also teachings of the unknown writer of Hebrews, books with substantiated dates in the first century. Your assertion that the “fundamental tenet of Christianity is that Christ died on the cross for our sins so that we may be forgiven and go to Heaven” fails only in the last word. Your inclusion of Heaven as a GOAL of Christians, well, you probably got it from some little hardshell Baptist town in Alabama. At least you are sticking, for the most part, to tenants of the faith and not arguing against some later additions to Jesus’ teachings, as most unbelievers do.

Where you go astray is in discrediting religion on principle, using arguments from enlightened secularism. Betelgeuse shines up there to humiliate all such reason. Small we are and small our thinking compared to Whoever put it there. I suggest rather comparing your summary of the Gospel to faith in atheism, agnosticism, a dried and painted goat’s head, or whatever. At some point, each of us surrenders to mystery, which appears to grow before us faster than science explains it. Mysteries we never saw seem attached to every scientific advance.




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