lets us have a cartoon about Abraham
\nlying to Egypt’s Pharaoh,
\nclaiming Sara is not his wife,
\nso he, Pharaoh, will take her,
\nbecause him, Abraham, wants more food
\nfrom the Pharaoh.<\/p>\n
lets have a cartoon about the Pope
\ncontrolling two puppets’ strings
\none is a Jew being led to slaughter,
\nlike a sheep, the other is a Muslim,
\nbeing led to slaughter,
\nlike a raging bull.<\/p>\n
a third cartoon might be in order
\nof Abraham, the father of monotheism,
\ntossing and turning in his grave, muttering,
\n“I only wanted them to become less violent.
\nIn their quest for vengeance they were slaughtering
\nwhole tribes of people. I wanted them to understand
\nand eye for an eye was vengeance enough.”
\nAnd Jesus answers from his grave,
\n“I told them to turn their other cheek, thinking:
\nwho would slap a cheek that turns away?
\nBut look at them now,
\nready to set the earth, their paradise, on fire,
\nover a cartoon.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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