Being Sunday and all that, and seeing that religion seems to be getting quite a bit of press we thought this from Adrian Mitchell pertinent. 

Many Many Many Mansions
(An ode on the occasion of the completion of an interdenominational Chaplaincy Centre t the University of Lancaster)

This hues was built for God.
It looks good.

‘You can sit on the toilet and cook your dinner, and you don’t have to stretch out at all,’ a pregnant woman told us.

Another house for God,
In case he visits Lancaster University.

He had come home from work to find his flat flooded with sewerage overflowing from upstairs.

Every new house for God
Is a joke by the rich against the poor

‘If my baby lives, the welfare may give me a place with two bedrooms.  If it dies, I’ll have to stay here.’

Every new house for God
Is blasphemy against humanity,

Christians and others, when you need to pray,
Go to the kitchens of the slums,
Kneel to the mothers of the slums,
Pray to the children of the slums,
The people of the slums will answer your prayers.

from the apeman cometh by Adrian Mitchell 1975

BUT WAIT – there is more

Two Paintings by Manuel Mendive

1
The road is a snake guarded by vultures
A man on white crutches
hauls a wagonload of corpses.
He is crying blood

2
God sits creating a bright halo of birds.
He sits on a mountain of dark people
who are impaled by everyday nails.

from the apeman cometh by Adrian Mitchell 1975