Modern Day Babylon
will dominate, on a global scale, the political, economic,
cultural, and military spheres. According to Revelation
18, it will corrupt and oppress the world to such an
extent that it will summon the wrath of God; hence,
bringing its total destruction, not necessarily a violent
destruction like most biblical scholars believe. The
system could be dismantled by other less extreme means
and a new ideology implemented – genuine democracy
with a divine touch. Although many of my poems portray
a cleansing of the dominant ideology through brute force,
like the Book of Revelation, they are symbolic and should
not be taken literally.
The second chapter “Hell” deals with the
Hell of the afterlife. It poetically portrays the eternal,
bottomless pit in ways that are uniquely frightening
and at times unsettling. Most Christians believe or
were taught that there is a standard, uniform hell for
all the souls that enter through its fiery gates. The
notion of a one hell for everyone implies that the Creator
is uncreative and unimaginative. This chapter however,
describes a customized hell for each individual condemned
soul, which reflects the creative and imaginative powers
of the All-powerful.
The third chapter “Curses” deals with problems,
setbacks, frustrations, addictions, and so on, that
people experience on this temporal earth. Throughout
the Bible, in particular Deuteronomy 28, God indeed
is the author of curses that afflict individuals, groups
of people, and entire nations. Like the chapter on Hell,
it includes numerous unique depictions of cursed lives:
people enslaved by alcohol or nicotine addiction; the
ravages that poverty, homelessness, and compulsive gambling
have on people; and the millions of victims of anti-Semitism.
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