[Newspoetry] Re:declaring War on God-by-Law

[Donald L Emerick]

Extract:
European politicians in unholy row
over God's place in the EU  
  
Stockholm (ENI).
Calls for placing a reference to God
in the text of a new European Union constitution
have been provoking lively debate in Sweden -
and elsewhere in Europe.
Some members of the convention
charged with drafting an EU constitution
have been urging that the document
mention faith in God
as a source of truth and justice.
But the suggestion has baffled other participants
in the constitutional convention.
"What on earth has God
to do with a constitution?"
asked Lena Hjelm-Wallen,
a former Swedish deputy prime minister
and a convention member.
[342 words, ENI-03-0121]

Re:declaring War on God-by-Law

A constitution is above all things
the most express declaration of law
say the constitutional textualists
who thereafter insist, after Derrida,
that there is nothing outside the text,
nothing that could be understood,
nothing that could be accepted,
as that which is somehow stated,
by pretense, supposedly covers over,
blocks, conceals, and deprives us
of our privileges of free thinking
of those rights to free speaking
which let us write this locked box
that we could call a constitution.

Even inferences and implications
of textual meaning become suspect,
when a text is regarded as a thing,
as a finished product of its times,
as a final and determinate source
for saying whatever ever hereafter
is to be said that it has been said,
to justify what we say is justified.

Responsibility is thus distorted,
warped beyond all human shapes,
when it is stripped of its infinity
of obligations that exceed being
in a primacy of its selfish privacy.

Even if they mention god or gods,
constitutions only self reference
their mortal nature as final ends
that want to live forever and for aye.

All constitutions are always already
complete heresies against all gods,
even if such constitutions pretend
to honor some gods by naming them,
right there in the middle of the text,
like uncut diamonds in the rough,
stones that have no possible carving.

Some jurists will boldly seek out gods
to speak out new law as if in power
to boldly go where no man ever goes,
beyond thinking of himself, left alone,
as to how his thinking must be right
and, if right, then also god's thinking,
for no gods could ever think unrightly,
no gods could even be remotely wrong.

A number theorist once said of god,
"God: He is the Supreme Fascist,
for He knows how every Number is,
absolutely, in all its Relations, found."
(I appendingly enlarge his saying,
to say what he might have said,
had he not stopped his tongue
from saying such obvious things.)

A constitution should mention god/s
if it clarifies the alien in alienist god/s,
alienates all possible sense of god/s
from all things human except man,
perhaps, who is strangely attracted,
ever in bondage, ever held in chains,
to dictatorials of Supreme Fascists,
who let no one read the whole text,
as a prophecy of things to come --
wrapped in metaphors and riddles,
blank verses of empty-eyed stares:
Says the SF to Guarding Angels,
"Even when they see times to be,
seal up books in which they write,
so that they may not understand,
or know to alter that which is to be
as I now say it is to be someday:
Man shall not second-guess God
by recursive self-referential embedding
of his mouthpieces into My thinking."

Oh, yes, many try to be ex cathedra --
Popes in Rome, SanHedra in Israel,
Mountain-man Moses crosses Jesus,
Muhammad and Mao cross deserts,
Founding Fathers in FilaeDelphia,
Delphic Oracles of grecian helotism:
all these speak constitutional law,
nirvanas of our highest mountains,
where rarefied air starves our minds,
ever cheaply to be imitated by drugs,
by psychotropic agents of mad bliss,
as Tim O'Leary, Carlos Castenada,
reporting on gods, tried to tell us.

Constitutions ought to mention gods
as ancient as all enemies of man,
of all that is human, all too human,
and only to be human every day.

Constitutions ought to mention gods
could be no help in times of trouble
because, were they to exist at all,
they would be the source of all
injustice and untruth, anti-human
as they are would be ante-human
and most pre- and post-human, too,
always already above and beyond
and everywhere faintly around man
voyeurs by watching, ala de Sade,
exquisite tortures brought to you by
unalterable wills of uncaring god/s.

The God-Question before the EU
ought to be decided affirmatively:
God/s should be mentioned by law
and condemned for its inhumanity;
let us declare an eternal war on god/s
on their witch and warlock covens, too,
as safe havens of faith-based terrorism,
from which Pandoran evils ever fly out.

(And, then, let every man cover over
and put his religion where it belongs,
deep in his heart, not in his mouth.)

Thanks for listening,
Donald L Emerick



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