Ice a Jesus
By Al Staggs, Chaplain and Performing Artist
Bedford, TX
Ice a Jesus and Ex a Jesus.
Ice a Jesus is a cold reading of the texts
And it’s a good one to have
If you are the Klan or the Nazis or Us.
Finding an appropriate text is needful
To fashion our xenophobias
And make us righteous soldiers of good
Against all that we deem evil.
Take a text and the life of JesusAnd mold it to your whims.
It helps to have a church
And willing crowds to hearand add hymns and prayers
And ice a Jesus can be done.
Ice a Jesus has served many a good cause
Slavery, racism, apartheid, fascism, sexism, Anti-Semitism, nationalism
Just to name a few.
Great causes require moral authority.
Ex a Jesus requires
Painstaking skill,
Sensitivity to the SpiritAnd the possibility of reform.
These would never further our cause.
So ice a Jesus will serve us just fine.
