Thrasher's Call

1. If your jesus is selling merch– slogans, hats, bumper stickers– trading sacrifice for dollars, who will enter the temple and turn over his tables?

2. Five lamps greeted His return, discarded, their stewards gone to burn others as fuel. Lighting the long dark with hope could no longer hold a candle to burning quickly with anger.

3. We talk about church at the reunion. The conversation quickly flees epiphany, and runs toward an algorithm, and the excitement it brings at declaring: “the antichrist is muslim, y’know; Europe is now mostly muslim instead of white.” They urge me to buy the YouTuber’s book about it. I wonder whether the magi would read it.