I’m Not Down With Jesus Anymore
a response to “The Response”
O I’m Not Down With Jesus Anymore –
They say He votes Republican and leads us into war,
and He will not heal anyone if they’ve been sick before –
No, I’m Not Down With Jesus Anymore!
I thought that I knew Jesus as a child –
He said he was a friend to all, so gentle and so mild,
and He held out His hand to me when I got kind of wild,
but that was before Jesus got so riled!
Now Jesus just seems angry all the time –
He hangs out with the big shots and overlooks their crimes,
and for the old and helpless, He hasn’t got a dime –
it’s their own fault if they’re not in their prime!
Yeah, Jesus changed on his way to the top –
some say because his Daddy thought He was a flop,
He started acting less laid back and way more like a cop,
and now He’s grown up, He’s just like his Pop!
Jesus Christ no longer loves his brother –
can you imagine how that hurts His Mother?
And forget that Golden Rule of treating others
as you would like to be – that’s just for losers, you schmuck!
I remember all the good times that we had –
like back when wearin’ sandals was considered really rad,
or turnin’ water into wine, man, that was super-bad!
But I’m not gonna let it make me sad.
We’ll still be here if Jesus’s new friends
decide that they don’t need Him when they win –
when He sees them fill their bank accounts and commit their mortal sins –
He can join us at the barricades we tend!
But I’m Not Down With Jesus Anymore –
not if He votes Republican and still supports the war,
not if He won’t heal anyone who has been sick before –
No, I’m Not Down With Jesus Anymore!
© mgw 8/25/11
Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog
[Mariann G. Wizard, a Sixties radical activist and contributor to The Rag, Austin’s underground newspaper from the 60s and 70s, is a poet, a professional science writer specializing in natural health therapies, and a regular contributor to The Rag Blog. Read more poetry and articles by Mariann G. Wizard on The Rag Blog.]
So many good lines. This is great. Somebody put some music to it. Would become a classic.
– Anonymous Piltz
This could only have been written by a Wizard. Mariann that is.I'm not down, either, Sister!
Fear not, there is music — now who can I get to sing it??
I wonder if Joan Baez would be willing. I can hear it in her voice already. Many thanks, Mariann.
Wiz;
Way Cool!!
Love it.
Charles.
Makes a lot more sense that Ray Stevens singing, “Jesus loves the little children, all the little children of the world.” I think about that song (And Roy Rogers singing, “yes, Jesus loves me, the bible tells me so..) every time I hear that over 300 children are murdered in the U.S. every year by their PARENTS. And see the skinny, starving children in Africa. Bible thumpers are sick,sick,sick.
Wizard has penned our anthem.
An atheist, (never down with jeebus.)