The Delusion of Piety

How strange it is that the sacred divine
nobility and honour are all encapsulated
in a covenant that requires of its
faithful that a jealous god be appeased
by the zealousness by which his
worshippers restrain and isolate
the women among them to believe
they are the sexual slaves of the men
who own them by rite of ceremony
and desire, that the enemies of their
savage god are to be destroyed
with unremitting butchery and the
greater the pain inflicted upon them
through cruel measure of atrocities
the greater the claim to heroism and
courage in service to the divine who
will not rest in the comfort of the
unrestrained adulation of believers
until that time when the world's total
score of wretched unbelievers are
delivered to him in desperate slavery or
bodies heaped in their death throes no
matter the young or the old to attain
effusive approval and celebration in
their desired, acquired martyrdom status.