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POETIC DAMNATION

Biblical Blasphemies

3 min readJan 9, 2023

God does not sanction free and fair elections, he intervenes and cheats, he stuffs the ballot box for himself, he is demagogic and says he alone can fix this, he smears his competitors and forbids their participation, and demands virginal prima nocta.
Don’t read the bible, compile your own. It will make a lot more sense, teach you much more, and generate brighter electricity at dinner parties.
Satire should always aim up and a satirist should never worry about aiming too high, all the way up, because, if anyone should ever be able to take a joke, it should be god, being benevolent and all.
Certainly our medieval peasant saints had a host of selfish vices and moments of violently marvelous malevolent fun. I can’t wait till my moments of unfairness are forgotten like diamond rings dropped somewhere in miles of beach sand, and my buried ill-mannered interactions are erased from memory and the record, and my deeds of assistance are sanded from the years from vaguely impressive to impressively vague, and the myth grows populating moral books and fables, and everyone eventually unknowledgably agrees I couldn’t of course have ever sinned.
Ancient Biblical…