To the Church (2)

Michael Peach

Though Yeshu, a good “son of God”, may well
Have thought himself Messiah or “Son of Man”
(The spark Divine in him was great indeed),
By seeing him as “God the Son” and part
Of your deliberated Trinity –
Perhaps at first to outshine the Emperor –
You fondly reduced "The Father" to man’s servant
And sacrificial lamb, thus triggering
Both the "Enlightenment" and Holocaust.

    Jerusalem
    23 March 1999

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