Anglican Head: God Doesn't Need Violent Protection

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Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:12 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

The following poem is one that has been meaningful to me since my college days in the mid-60's. Even more so now, since we live in a world that can no longer afford the atrocities of religious tribal warfare. If there is a 'god' than God is One. Our historical and cultural uniqueness from country to country may perceive somewhat varying images. We must trust Paul's words in I Cor 13: "For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; 10but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. 11When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. 12For now we see in a mirror, dimly,* but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love. "
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Ad Coelum
by Harry Romaine

At the Muezzin's call for prayer
The kneeling faithful thronged the square,
And on Pushkara's lofty height
The dark priest chanted Brahama's might.

Amid a monastry's weeds
An old Franciscan told his beads;
While to the synagogue there came,
A Jew, to praise Jehovah's name.

The one great God looked down and smiled
And counted each His loving child;
For Turk and Brahmin, monk and Jew
Had reached Him through the gods they knew.

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HARRY ROMAINE
American poet
(fl. 1895)
in "Munsey's Magazine", Jan. 1895