Proportion
ora wilbert eads
The concept of endless punishment
In a future dimension
Is a monstrous supposition
Which lacks credibility;
ustice requires judgment
Proportionate to the offense:
Nobody errs eternally;
So it is correct
To disavow cruel presumptions
That misery never ends.
A substantial part
Of organized religion
Affirms vulgar notions
Of torture for dissenters;
But a small enlightened element
Rejects ancient superstitions
Sublime insights
Allied with good conscience
Remold many doctrines
Which are spiritually infantile.
Misinformed preachers scare people
With vivid descriptions
Of encircling flames
Which never are quenched
According to superstitions
Finite origins
Cannot engender results
Infinite in scope;
Destructive fear sustains
A shoddy ecclesiastic structure;
But, as we continue
Removal of the foundation,
The obsolete system
Will tumble in shambles.
