From "The Museum of Clear Ideas"

Posted by Phil Ryken
Don Hall is our poet laureate.  A recent edition of his collected poems includes a lyric for these pluralistic times.  Hall writes:

The times are propitious for fake religions.
Today let's decide which priest, beauty, athlete,
moviestar, or Jungian to celebrate 
    by electing him

God. Hype springs eternal in the human breast.
Let's diversify spiritual options,
play New Age rock, and improvise jargon 
    with Julia, founder

of the God-of-the-Month Club, who keeps busy
shamaning around in her medicine man
costume, afterward to go Sufi dancing
    with Jerry Falwell. . . .
Posted March 20, 2007 @ 9:18 AM by Phil Ryken
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