My Invocation

My Invocation[1]

With respect to the death of Christ,

I wasn't there, honestly, I came to this earth

several hundred centuries after he had long departed.

Seriously I was nowhere near Via Dolorosa in the Old City of Jerusalem

between April 30AD and April 33AD when the deed was done;

that's around 1,984 years ago for goodness sakes,

so I cannot be held responsible in any way.

Not even of turning a blind un-saintly eye

as the world has done to the people of Syria today.

It was in fact the Roman's who were responsible,

that is if you subscribe to the 'criterion of embarrassment'.

It was they who mocked him as the King of Jews,

it was they who clothed him in a purple robe,

crowned him with thorns,

beat and spat upon him, and publicly humiliated him

by making him carry his own cross to Golgotha,

the Place of a Skull.

It was they who offered him wine mixed with gall

and nailed him to the “low tau”  between two Jewish rebels

and called them thieves.

It was they let him hang in the hot afternoon sun

for six whole hours until his death,

then plunged a spear into his flank,

just to be certain; before stealing his robes.

So you see,

I am an innocent man.

01/12/16

 

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[1] [the act of calling upon or quoting something such as a law as a reason or justification]

Reviews

[Corset]

Very intelligent write, it makes me wonder, if every man was innocent and no one since had even an ounce of sin, his death would be in vain. Luckily there are plenty of sinners to justify this? It makes me want to scream, I wish we would finally take him down and let him walk among us.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thanks Corset. I thought the USA had finally 'taken him down' If not who the hell is Trump? lol

[Corset]

Rhetorical?

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I guess. But he is the one person I have heard the name Jesus associated with more than anyone else in recent times. Jesus Trump! etc