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On reading 2 Kings

(a project to read the whole of the Bible out loud in St Clements church 2011.Sally)

The church grows colder and colder as I hack my way

Through chapter after chapter of the deeds

Of long dead kings who all the Lord obey

Although I read their action only leads

To yet more ruthless slaughter and the cull

Of innocent bystanders who cared little

For tribal mores or the endless dull

Incitement of the priests, whose law would whittle

Everything to their simple belief

Our god is right; he tells us what to think;

We alone can comprehend his brief;

So follow us and you'll be in the pink.

          How can intelligent people claim

          That this god and Jesus' Father are the same?

Brian Hick 2011

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