Cognitive Dissonance

Father! Where have you gone?

We need your eyes in times of filth

Instill the shame, provide the blame

Invoke the guilt

Because the flesh takes on a life of its own

I know that I can’t be left alone

So be my hands, and be me eyes, and be my soul

Hands fed to the churning gears of industry

Devotion shifted, subverted

Legions frothing at the mouth

A populace now enslaved by the temporal

Compassion cannot be bought

Salvation cannot be achieved without suffering

Absolution cannot be sold

His message must be heard

Christ thrown on the assembly line

Mass production

His message must be heard

At the behest of His word

Hypocrite! Whited Sepulcher! Liar!

The blood on your hands is washed away by your divine lie

Ravenous!

Run through your lines to appease your huddled masses

Ravenous wolf! Miscreant vermin!

I know that you never had a soul

From this point on, to watch you die will be my goal

Counting the earnings stolen from the weak and broken

The dissonance of manufactured faith left unspoken

The struggle for utopian morality spawned dystopia

Ravenous wolf! Pharisee!