Judas as a Cannibal Interpreting Holiness
Korea sends a priestly man, a monk,
To worshiping Japan. He preaches that
The animism of their bones is drunk,
More like a drunken mouse or bat,
And will remain so till they realize
That silent Shintō gods are reflections
Of Buddha’s nature, Buddha in disguise.
Such is hardly rare. Christian confections
Teach Jewish scriptures were mere anterooms
To Jesus’s truth. Religions gobble
Up each other. That is how they meet their dooms,
These older faiths. New ones come and hobble
Those ancient superstitions with some new
Betrayals. Watch out Shintō priest and Jew.
~ Phillip Whidden