For The Love of Christ

By Jack Joseph Smith

In the movie, "Priest" I will paraphrase a segiment of the diologue; "so what jesus, give your life, and while Living it perform miracles, I do not know there is a God, easy for you; for your courage, your pain. You knew where you were going, I do not. Different; is it not. Change? See me. Alone. You change. No. You have a place, You already knew that how ever bad things were here, they would turn up good for you someplace else, Better yet, within your same frame of mind. No reincarnation, same conscienceness. So what makes you so powerful, when suffering for truth has a knowable outcome, that in fact: is even better than this Green Green Grass of Home Now its Jack talking, "and that makes you a snob, dosen't it?" Thank you English:

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A prose-like meditation that argues with Christian suffering by attacking the privilege of certainty and guaranteed redemption.

Claude

The poem picks a fight with Christian suffering by way of the film 'Priest' — paraphrasing dialogue that attacks the privilege of guaranteed redemption. The argument is blunt: performing miracles while knowing God exists is not faith but certainty, and certainty is not brave. Real courage belongs to those who act without that guarantee.

The prose-like format (long lines, direct quotation, argumentative structure) deliberately rejects the lyric mode, as if the subject were too urgent for poetry's usual indirections.