Let's privatise the church

Karel Reus

Let’s privatise the church
let’s corner the market
on scarce resources
such as forgiveness
and compassion
and inside information
on absolutely everything.

Let’s sell shares
and indulge shareholders
with dividends
including privileged access
to eternal life
and the means of grace
and the paraphernalia of holiness.

Let’s focus on growth
by way of mergers and takeovers.
Let’s create a cryptocurrency
of spirituality to replace the economy
of dogma and belief
and to divert attention
from a threadbare faith.

Let’s trim the workforce
to its bare bones
and indoctrinate it with a sense of duty
rather than a knowledge of rights;
and assure the workers
that the whole shebang
is for their benefit.

Let’s convince the teeming masses
that their raison d’être is charity
rather than justice;
that gross inequality is the best we can expect
from an economic status quo
that sponsors a few fat cats
and allows a little bit of trickling down.

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