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Joseph's claims

I feel compelled to say
that I am constantly astounded at the way  
that you present yourself  
as THE religiously enlightened one  
who knows full well   above the rest of us  
and with an apodictic certainty  
of how we live within an ontological duality,  
and that our last abode will be the one  
that is the opposite of gross materiality  
   
not to mention how that you are sure  
you’re blessed with absolutely right  
unquestionable insight  
and therefore should be listened to when you profess  
didactically your claims    
about the paths in which this old world works,  
what makes life sing  
what determines human happiness,  
what presages its gloom,  
what severs from humanity its bliss,  
   
and then about the answers to  
the questions of such things    
as whether god exists,  
and whether he for us has something like a will,  
indeed, a  plan,  
that determines “man’s” good end and final goal  
   
and what it is that really serves to heal, to boon,  
and save "man's" soul  
(presuming that there really is    
this Plato visioned ghost in the machine),  
   
let alone how any final joy    
will ne'er be found  
without mankind’s subjection to  
a Christian second birth  
and then escaping to, through death,  
some spirit realm that says essentially God lied  
about the aim and eschatology of human destiny  
despite the fact  
that the book that you regard as speaking truth  
notes that your god,  when in creation's early days,  
did look upon the bodied place  
he circumscribed beneath the stars  
to tenure Adam and his wife  
and his descended kin within  
to  have them live and thrive and multiply,  
and then proclaimed most solemnly  
when all his handiwork was done  
that it and it alone, not some "spirit space",  
was life’s perpetual locale  
that was and is divinely  
and so finely deemed forever  
“very good”.  
   
Have you not noted how and why
the spouted claims   
you make above (and from the point of view  
of writing well some things set out
most awkwardly),  
allows all those who read your posted "verse"  
to "plainly" see contains, is rooted in, 
the essence of old Gnosticism's heresies?
Written by Baldwin
Published | Edited 31st Jan 2020
Author's Note
JZ's "Gloom and Cheer"
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