WBC Pastor Spoken Against

WBC Pastor Spoken Against

A Poem by Elton Camp
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Have you no sense of decency?

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WBC Pastor Spoken Against

 

By Elton Camp

 

The way a church he could begin

Was to fill it mainly with his kin.

On the conscience of most it’d grate

To support a group so filled with hate.

 

Divine wisdom recorded from above

Says true worshipers must show love.

If one follows the Prince of Peace,

Only then may the gospel increase.

 

If part of what he says could be true,

The way he acts is not the way to do.

From every type sin one may repent.

He says for gays, that is not meant.

 

That once they get out of line,

They’re condemned for all time.

And he just delights to tell

How they’ll writhe in hell.

 

Belief in such a hell is a bunch of rot,

But it sure seems about all he has got.

He never thinks it would be cruelty dire

To burn a sinner forever in such a fire.

 

The pastor paints God as a fiend

One who toward torture is leaned.

He will have to account some day

For all the vile things he does say.

 

It should be his main job to persuade.

That’s the way new converts are made.

“Teach them to observe what I command

If before me you have any hope to stand.”

 

To make it known that of a death he’s glad

To any standard of decency seems very bad.

What does he think gives him any right.

To picket a funeral and scream in spite?

 

And when the pastor finally passes away,

Would he want his family treated that way?

The words of Jesus are certainly true:

“Do to others as you want done to you.”

 

 

© 2010 Elton Camp


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Elton Camp
Elton Camp

Russellville, AL



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I am retired from college teaching/administration and writing as a hobby. My only "publications" are a weekly column in our local newspaper. Most of my writing is prose, but I do produce some "poetr.. more..

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