Propheteers

Propheteers

Here they are, ladies and gentlemen
The men who set out to save America
Malicious messengers of hate and intolerance
Pugnacious proselytizers attired in 5th Avenue sackcloth
Freakin’ deacons in long black limousines

Well-heeled descendants of the Scopes trials
Diamond-dripping disciples of the overseer
Arising, vitriolic and venomous from deep within the veil
Pale-skinned and pissed off
Fed up and festering
The fetid odor of burning Jim Crow
Giving rise to their inbred blood

Let me introduce to you
Jerry Falwell
His fingernails fractured from digging in the collection plate
Seeking “the good people of America”
Those ready to drive the Negro from our public schools
And let God back in

A moral majority of red-blooded red-necks
Backwoods bigots and conscienceless Christians
Seeking to affix blame for war, for disease, for debauchery
Onto minorities, onto gays, onto women, onto liberals,
Onto anyone except themselves

Pat Robertson
Anti-Semite par excellence
Issuing forth scathing, scalding denunciations
Of Jewish usury
Whilst himself counting a thousand pieces of silver
In the cozy confines of the Christian Coalition
Or approving asinine assassination attempts of foreign leaders
Divine intervention at the point of a gun

Jim Baker
And wife Tammy Faye
Sanctimonious sentinels of the PTL
Million dollar ministers of misappropriation
He scored a strumpet from Penthouse
She built the poodle and air-conditioned dog house
They got busted for fraud
And took their Bibles to the big house

Jimmy Swaggert
He stole two million from the plate
Built three mansions on the hill
Let “little head” do the thinking
Then begged for faith and forgiveness

Oral Roberts
Who swore he’d drop dead
If pusillanimous parishioners
Didn’t drop a million unto him
They didn’t – and he didn’t …
A failed loan application from “Moral Oral”

The Pope
A coronated Cardinal crusading for Catholics
The pontification of creation and gestation
The denial of contraception,
Fused with the deception about conception

Now, a new crop pollutes the airwaves
They inundate the Internet
And after them, will be another
Then another
Then yet another
All promising the glory of God
False prophets preying on prejudice
Perfidious parsons schooled in scripture

Their pseudo-pious, semi-secular acolytes
Door slamming, righteous ranting,
Privilege purveying buffoons
Like O’Reilley, and Coulter, and Hannity and Rush
Will stand alongside, shaking fingers of indigestible indignation
Deftly wrapping the cross in hues of red, white and blue
With their frantically fallacious, false, fickle and
Frankly fouled up brand of God and country
If America is to survive
Their insidious infection must be exorcised