DEUS MISERATUR

Unwilling to accept responsibility
for his own actions, man's first
collective decision was to create
the Creator. In that Supreme Being
would rest the authority to
affect us all; that Spirit would

move us to behave as we do. We
gratefully give ourselves up to
His protection, His mercy; ourselves
giving no quarter, showing no mercy
to those who deny His existence.

Time has changed our perceptions,
for once a whole pantheon of Gods
saw to our needs; gave way to an
Aten, finally a Jehovah, heir of El.
Man is adaptable, and with his

changing imperatives he recognizes
the need to alter allegiance to
a new supremacy. In this era the
computer is the latest manifestation
of Divine Presence and the seat

of bureaucracy its temples.
Number after number is sacrificed to
appease the God whose fodder we are.
Recognizing safety in anonymity, we
embrace the liturgy of ciphers,


and comforted, we exist blindly,
in a uniform dance of submission.