In response to Langston Hughes' poem, "Goodbye Christ", all I can say is thank you someone said it. Let me see, let me watch my words here. I believe in faith, and faith is amazing and spiritual and gives us all "morals". But, do not give me a book upon my ability to read words and force me to worship and open my heart to something that has been so commercialized, over written, and "swelled up" as Hughes put it. What have I seen and witnessed but the "story of Christ" and its inflammation of many sorts. This is my testimony. Let me believe what I want, let me ask the questions I please and do not silence me. Give me "free will". Count me in on Hughes' final words, "And nobody's gonna sell Me, to a king, a general, or a millionaire". I'll continue to make my mother cry and believe what I want.
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religion
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Congealing emollient
Riling unguent
Indecisively certain
Vacuously sought
Governmentally pious
Labor of forced love
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Two years ago I wrote that poem about religion. I'm along the same lines as you and Hughes. "Faith" need not mean "religion"; church is, when you get to the "heart" of it, another bureaucratic institution. We can find faith in other people and/or in nature. Yeah, everything is associated in some way with politics, but at least we have the "freedom" to choose not only what faith means to us personally but also what we choose to have faith in. Your response gives me hope that people can find faith not by religion alone.
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