The Poet of Prophecy
April 12th, 2021 by Patrick Henry
Someday a poet will arise. He will take each work from the 19th through 21st centuries and lovingly consider what in them poisons men’s minds and what in them points to the greatness of mankind. He will, like a surgeon, alter each work delicately, subtly, to remove the story elements which are unworthy. Each arc will be replaced with one closer to the true Story behind each work, a clearer and cleaner vision, the mirror darkly a little more polished.
-a prophecy from the ether
The poet will pray each time. Angels and Christ and the authors themselves will talk to him.
G.
April 12, 2021
Visions of the eternities will unfold.
Bookslinger
April 12, 2021
PH: are you sure the author of the snippet didn’t write from a marxist/woke standpoint? It felt as if your addendum flipped it 180 degrees.
Patrick Henry
April 12, 2021
Bookslinger: yes
CCP
April 12, 2021
Now early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them. Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?” This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear.
So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?”
When the crowd disappeared, Jesus stoned the sinner to death saying, “I too am a sinner. But if the law could only be executed by men without blemish, the law would be dead.”
The Gospel of John, rewritten by the CCP
G.
April 12, 2021
The ccp’s version of the Bible is one that will be forced on people and that is not done as a labor of love. Seems pretty different from the quote.
When I read it I didn’t see a 180 flip. The true story part reminded me of cs lewis, and the mirror darkly of course is from Paul
Bookslinger
April 13, 2021
I guess I am jaded by the times, where printed and spoken word is altered/erased by those who claim to be guardians of Truth, but who are in fact the opposite.
A podcaster recently said we live in a time where you can’t tell the difference between serious wokeness and a parody of it.