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Christianity loves Hitler
Christianity loves Hitler:
Scapegoats for Christ:
The bible fills in for logic.
Gangstas want to be loved
Like faggots do.
Faggots are maggots
From a faith based perspective.
So these kids put their faith in something promising:
Those promising smiles
Which are wide enough
So long as truth doesn’t enter their conscience.
People with their goals
Being trampled on
By people
Only slightly less ruthless.
Little kids dying of AIDS:
And I am happy.
Because I have to move on.
If I never stopped
Then it just means I am American.
If I never grieved your pain
Then you were never me.
Because if I never cared about your perspective
Maybe it was your fault.
Maybe it is your fault
That I am living now.
Because Nietzsche talks about poems
Written by artists
Read by idiots:
Smarter than the poetry
Which keeps you alive.
The poetry that has a happy ending
If you are stupid enough
To imagine
Beyond all decency.
My interpretation of this poem may be way off the poets intended vision. However, I believe I can adaquetely synopsize and critique this poem, showing how it made me feel, and the relative meaning. Christianity loves Hitler could mean that Christianity is evil. Furthermore, it is evil like Hitler. Evil in the poem and life is interchangable with Hitler. Scapegoats for Christ could mean that humans take the blame for Christian ethics that are not pure (i.e. hatred of homosexuals, slavery condoned in the Bible etc.) The Bible fills in for logic could mean that the Bible and what it condones is often illogical. Gangstas want to be loved like faggots do shows the connection between how the rejected of society just want to be loved because they are rejected for what they are. I love that line. It is so humane. Faggots are maggots from a faith based perspective. This line reinforces my prior interpretation, that the Bible is illogical and that Christian ethics are sometimes impure. The body of the poem can be be summarized in a few words, although it is seemingly unlinked. In a few words, depressing yet beautiful and true. This poem does not have a happy ending! Neither does life. To me this poem is about a wounded kid. A kid wounded by society and Christian bigots.
brilliant.