Kit Kelen #398 - do you still believe?

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do you still believe?

(on the day we learn that one fifth of the priests in two of the main Catholic teaching orders in Australia were fiddling with the kiddies for the last sixty years at least)

after all the wars they have called

after the judgement cast

and its carnage

after what they have done to the children

after their auto-da-fé

their endless crusades

confessions of the innocent coaxed

after the lies that they held up for fact

because what?

yes, there was something nobody knew

consider those who went from this world

thinking there was a better one

consider those told to go on with their suffering

because it was His inscrutable will

do you think this is ancient history now?

incurable faith

and those who've possessed it

of them, of you

might I simply ask –

do you still believe

that they're with God

and God's with them

and all's well with the world?