Philosophy Of The Common People SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS One night Isaiah was talking to Jeremiah about the lamentations of of Ezekiel, when in walked Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos and Obadiah. . .     Perhaps the single strangest fact of the confused record of our history     Is that the sundry and perverse religions claiming their fine name     Are not at all what the so-called founders intended as their legacy     Siddartha was hardly a Buddhist, nor Lao-Tzu either Taoist or Jain     As far as the East is from the West, so is Jesus from Christianity     And Moses would view modern Judaism with a scowl of utter disdain     In that testament now known as new, it is undoubtedly historically true     That Black Kettle and his friends of peace share a lot more in common     Than all of the preachers and popes of Christianity’s sordid motley crew     With the apostles of poverty and their disdain for capitalism’s mammon     And thus we’ve murdered the true prophets and twisted their brave song of peace     Into a mockery of stain-glass deception which possesses no positive advantage     And we’ve slaughtered all of the innocents in religion’s narrow vise of no release     Calling evil good and good evil while branding The Everywhere Spirit’s children          savage . . .One night Isaiah was talking to Jeremiah about the lamentations of Ezekiel, when in walked Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos and Obadiah Click Here to eMail the Author Other Books by Richard Aberdeen Copyright © 2002 by Brothers/Sisters Productions ~ Copyright © 2002 by Richard Aberdeen        No part of this material may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including printing, photocopying, recording or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author: Inquires click here.  Appendix Revolution and Revolution/Side B are open copyright and may be reproduced and distributed as desired.