If it is true, what the Prophets write, <br />That the heathen gods are all stocks and stones, <br />Shall we, for the sake of being polite, <br />Feed them with the juice of our marrow-bones? <br /> <br />And if Bezaleel and Aholiab drew <br />What the finger of God pointed to their view, <br />Shall we suffer the Roman and Grecian rods <br />To compel us to worship them as gods? <br /> <br />They stole them from the temple of the Lord <br />And worshipp'd them that they might make inspirèd art abhorr'd; <br /> <br />The wood and stone were call'd the holy things, <br />And their sublime intent given to their kings. <br />All the atonements of Jehovah spurn'd, <br />And criminals to sacrifices turn'd.<br /><br />William Blake<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-it-is-true-what-the-prophets-write/
