June 28, 2021

Bad Theology

you said these words

“These are men of God I would follow into Hell!”

you actually said these actual words

publicly, on Facebook, today

I read them just now

just an instant before

I became gob smacked

by your ignorant audacity

to couple God with Hell

as if One would lead to the other

others praise your conviction

(I read that too, often)

consider you a teacher

a staunch defender of the faith

yet I wonder

I am confused that your obvious sincerity

stands coupled to so horrid a theology

I am befuddled

that you could say

that these are men of God

whom you would follow into Hell

this of all is the lowest madness

would men of God lead to Hell?

should we of God follow such leading?

should a follower of God say such things?

if only even for a joke

what sinful jest could use

Hell as Heaven’s puch-line

what should those beyond us think

we have been given Jesus Christ

God’s own and only Son

alone our guide to salvation

you would much better have said:

“Jesus is the Son of God! I will follow Him into Heaven!”