Ken Burch
Mar 3, 2023

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Leon Rosselson, in his brilliant athiest song "Stand Up For Judas"- which, btw, he was once permitted to sing in St. Paul's Cathedral in London, thanks to the involvement of religious songwriter Sidney Carter, of all people- ends with these words:

"By sword and gun and crucifix

Christ's gospel has been spread

And two thousand cruel years have shown

The way that Jesus led

The heretics burned and tortured

And the butchering bloody Crusaders

The bombs and rockets sanctified

That rain down death from heaven

They followed Jesus, they knew the answer

All unbelievers must be believers

Or else be broken

'So place no trust in saviours'

Judas said, 'for everyone

Must be to his or her own self a sun' ".

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Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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