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At A Pharisee's Rebuke Of Jesus, After Sychar
Rabbi, why do you let that mongrel dog
follow you, always trotting at your heels,
or curled beside you when you take your meals?
You might as well adopt a common hog.
You know that both of them are born unclean.
To treat each otherwise is just obscene.
You folks are different here in Galilee.
As for myself, I am a Pharisee
(and very scrupulous, as you can tell:
I keep the Law, and keep it very well).
But really, animals are hardly worth
so much compassionate consideration.
We are of God; they---merely of this earth.
We, only, are the Lords of God's creation.
Starward
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Pharisees
Was considering them recently - correctitude is subjective and cultural - I run into it all the time and usually it is sacred terrain - not to be spoken of in private or public - highly offensive. Pharisee syndrome - I'm right and I'm in charge of you and everything you do, so stop that and do it this way. Good poem ~ Star ~
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You are so right
Especially that it seems to inhabit sacred terrain. That is one of the reaons I have been making a transition between denominations---I have grown bone-tired of the Phariseeism built into churches my wife prefers.
Starward