A Son of God? Edit 1.0003 erthona, billy,leah,71deg

[71degrees]

A call, a cry, a father’s name; a million heads turn round.
No John, or David, Pete or Mat will bring Mohammed down.
Though saints infest the West, the East protects the sneaking thief
that steals her sons from thoughtful life,
named in good faith to limit strife...
all synonyms for grief.

A century, millennium; time all but bombed by history.
The curse of being son of man eats hearts and souls; a mystery
made secret by your place of birth, unsure of what life means,
the young treat death as blessed demise
to trade for early paradise;
and everlasting dreams.

Love when you can for gods are strange, and do not love you back.
Why else do mortals fight their fights, in holy lands, in black Iraq,
in sunlit places, made for peace? They kill us with commands
to maim, to glorify a Lord.
Oh, how we play on things absurd
right into hell’s hands.

Tectak being politically incorrect. Should I be bothered?
2014 and onwards

Coming in here quite late (and haven't read all comments thoroughly) but would question use of "gods" plural. East or West? Do you see a different deity? Also, why the limitation of "century" singular? Even "millennium" isn't the correct time span when one is writing about "religion" as a concept. Also, you take the Western thought way out and refer, geographically to "Holy Land" when what you are saying is the place is not "Holy" (nothing wrong w/this, but it only enslaves the poem in traditional Western thought. Third stanza: Have a problem with "they"…do you really think that these gods think in humanistic terms? To push off these reasons as to why Man kills and maims on the gods (there's that plural word again) conveniently lets Man off the hook for any of the historical damage, doesn't it?

The elimination of any capitals on Son of Man or God(s) but still having one on Lord (see the problem with plural vs singular?) is confusing also. They / He / It either "are" or "aren't" deserving of capitals.

Just a side note: not sure you need the additional editorial (…"politically incorrect"…) at the end either. To any atheistic thinker, this isn't politically incorrect at all. It's only purpose served would be to influence how a reader would grasp the poem "before" reading. Let the poem stand for itself without the sidebar.