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  • Story Listed as: Fiction For Adults
  • Theme: Drama / Human Interest
  • Subject: Ethics / Morality
  • Published: 01/17/2023

I want to be a "Christian."

By Radrook
Born 1946, M, from PA, United States
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I want to be a "Christian."
I want to be a Christian,

but excuse me if you will,

I still would like to make a stand

with those who rape, and kill.


I still desire to child-abuse,

and savage up my wife,

adulterate without excuse,

and seethe with hate and strife.


I still desire the sinful fire

of lying to the hilt,

deceitful, full of vile desires,

without a twinge of guilt.


I strongly yearn to fill my mind,

with putrid thoughts of lust.

To practice how to be unkind,

and innocents distrust,


I want to rampage all about,

with those who dwell in sin,

while celebrating with a shout,

and a wide demonic grin.


I want to be a Christian too.

Í have a right to be!

Don’t turn away as if untrue!

I’m honest! Can’t you see?

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Link To Reviews
www.youngwriterssociety.com/work/Radrook/I-want-to-be-a-Christian-139228
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Unedited Original Version except for the final stanza.

I want to be a Christian

but excuse me if you will,

I still would like to steal and rape

and other people kill.


I still desire to child-abuse

and savage up my wife,

adulterate and fornicate

and seethe with hate and strife.


I still desire the sinful fire

of lying to the hilt,

deceiving like the Devil did

without a twinge of guilt.


I still desire to fill my mind

with putrid thoughts of lust,

with jealousies and enmities

suspicions and distrusts,


and want to rampage all about

with those who love to sin

while celebrating with a shout

and wide demonic grin.

I want to be a Christian too.

Í have a right to be.

Don’t turn away as if untrue!

I’m honest! Can’t you see?
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Radrook

01/18/2023

Addendum: The poem is not intended to be understood literally. In short, it is not conveying a desire to do those things mentuioned but condeming them and the speaker's [a fictitious individual and definitely not me] attitude.

It is uses verbal irony to convey an annoying reality that has plagued Christianity ever since its inception, the hypocritical claiming of being a Christi...
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Addendum: The poem is not intended to be understood literally. In short, it is not conveying a desire to do those things mentuioned but condeming them and the speaker's [a fictitious individual and definitely not me] attitude.

It is uses verbal irony to convey an annoying reality that has plagued Christianity ever since its inception, the hypocritical claiming of being a Christian while behaving like Satan the Devil himself. The reason I feel impelled to write about it is because I have personally been a victim of the fanatical demonic antics of such false Christians. In fact, I wrote a short story about such a person whose persecution cost me my job, and whose devilish behavior while identifying with Christ, very effectively illustrares the behavior that the poem briefly describes. Why such individuals don't openly worship Satan instead of choosing to identify with Jesus is beyond me.

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