12-25-2014, 03:25 AM
If "religion" is the "sneaking thief" as I think you explained earlier on, please do a careful check, because as I read it, that meaning is nowhere evident in the poem. I read your snide reply, but I think you missed that I was speaking literally in terms of your sentence construction. It is abundantly clear that the POEM is about religion, but there is still no other reference to this "sneaking thief" anywhere else in the poem, and since that was one of your more vivid images, I immediately wanted to know more about this stealthy ideological bandit.