Suicidal Savior

Written By Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn

Copyright © 2013 Marvin Thomas Cox
DBA: Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn
All Rights Reserved

If I were to kill myself,

I would burn in hell,
for a million years,
drown in a million tears,
of sorrow unchanging ...

This doctrine of suicide,

such as taught by churches,
who never ask as to why,
never question this lie,
or whence it came to be so ...

Have you yet asked to see,

where in the good book,
and upon what pages,
in such eternal rages,
were these words spoken?

It is only a doctrine of men,

words never to be found,
nor did they ever exist,
except as tactics of fist,
from Inquisitions past ...

Fear was Church power,

convert or die was the cry,
sinner endure the pain,
in Jesus Christ's name,
or burn in hell forevermore ...

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 If you should kill yourself,
a new convert will be lost,
your pain is much gain,
always in Jesus' name,
His Church must prevail ...

Yet the Jews at Masada,

men, women, and children,
gladly met their deaths,
suicide taking their breaths,
before blaspheming HaShem ...1

Choosing death over dishonor,

one right over many wrongs,
they knew nothing of hell,
if true, Torah would tell,
but of this it spoke not a word ...

And in days of the old west,

it was taught that it was best,
a white woman to be captured,
by Indians raped and raptured,
kill herself with no thought of hell ...

And even the sweet man Jesus,

went willingly to the cross,
having power in his last breath,
to prevent his own death,
yet he chose death over living ...

I ponder the reasons as to why,

any one would choose to die—
who possess the power to live,
yet choose death and to die—
is this willful sacrifice or suicide?

It appears to my simple mind,

Christians serve a suicidal savior,
yet deny to themselves and others,
the very example that he is said,
to have set for us all ...
(Written March 22nd, 2013)

1 HaShem is Hebrew for The Name

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