Fire-And-Brimstone Justice [rev.] Poem by Margaret Alice Second

Fire-And-Brimstone Justice [rev.]



The dawn ‘architecture' expert becomes political
analyst now watching CNN - French cartoonists
executed at Charlie Hebdo magazine by Islamic
extremists - a world-wide response termed ‘Je
Suis Charlie' defends press freedoms against
terrorists unable to question their own belief but
defend it attacking free people of the West

Why do intellectually suppressed try to destroy
freedom brought by enlightened rationalism, why
do some people accept intellectual manacles so
easily, becoming radicalised by religious fanatics -
is it because they find joy in causes that involve
war wreaking tedium of a cynical, self-serving
materialistic life without values or principles;

Delighted by causes creating bonds among men,
and because poor people left behind by privileged
capitalists enjoy peace found in religions' promises
of a ‘better life' heaven - and thus have to destroy
any means that reveals glaring contradictions in all
creeds demanding blind obedience; preferring to
kill sceptics who question the dreams offered by

Their religion instead of leaving non-believers to a
promised fire-and-brimstone justice of their deity to
be served in the afterlife…

[9 January 2015]

[Revised 23 January 2015]

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