Mammons
• Written by Jonahh
///verse 1
mammons the demon of wealth in the talmudic tradition
the new testament warning nobody reads, the condition
of the cathedral built in his name, the rendition
of worship in the quarterly earnings, the perdition
dressed in prosperity gospel, joel osteens
smile is the most expensive sermon in the scenes
of American theology, the smithereens
of the Sermon on the mount between the limousines
the camel through the needles eye, the scripture
that the wealthy congregation wont depict or
reference from the pulpit, the constrictor
of the comfortable homily, the boa's picture
capitalism and christianity made a covenant
in the calvinist framework, the dominant
theology of the settler colony, the prominent
idea that wealth is evidence of Gods acknowledgment
weber traced it in the protestant ethic, the romance
of the calling, the worldly work as spiritual advance
the accumulation as devotion, the expanse
of that specific theologys circumstance
is every prosperity preachers bentley
every offshore account held gently
by a man who quotes the scripture intently
while the congregation tithes their rent, evidently
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this is mammons cathedral, stained glass and marble floors
the collection plate moving through the corridors
the sermon on the mount locked behind the doors
the comfortable gospel keeping comfortable scores
///verse 2
the invisible hand and the hand of God
became the same hand in the period, the prod
of the divine blessing on the lightning rod
of capital, the sacred and the mod-
ern market occupying the same temple
the money changers back inside, the simple
reading of the gospel too uncomfortable, the dimple
of the contradiction smoothed and the example
set by every megachurchs real estate portfolio
the nonprofit status on the billion dollar folio
of property, the holy and the rolio-
dex of influence, the apostolic
power of the tax exemption, congregation
giving from the poverty of their station
while the institutions capitalization
grows quarterly, the divine corporation
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Jonahh
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