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Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity

IrishAyes

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5. You might already know this by heart; but here 'tis for any interested reader:

Reply to ColesCountyDem (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 9, 2014, 07:45 PM

Mar 2014

Three Dollars Worth of God

I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please.
Not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep,
but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk
or a snooze in the sunshine.
I don’t want enough of God to make me love a black man
or pick beets with a migrant.
I want ecstasy, not transformation.
I want warmth of the womb, not a new birth.
I want a pound of the Eternal in a paper sack.
I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please.

— Wilbur Rees

Unfortunately I have met people intellectually challenged enough to read that as a racist screed instead of what it truly is, the most powerful expose of the condition of too many a human soul.

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Pope Francis: revitalising the Catholic church [View all] rug Mar 2014 OP

Would His Holiness accept a suggestion from an American Baptist (a progessive denomination)? ColesCountyDem Mar 2014 #1

+1 rug Mar 2014 #2

Very nice post. IrishAyes Mar 2014 #3

You might already know this by heart; but here 'tis for any interested reader: IrishAyes Mar 2014 #5

Pope Francis is not only a wise and good man, but also a very brave one. IrishAyes Mar 2014 #4