Humans Existed On Earth 1,000,000 Years Before Christianity ...

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And many millions of years

before Organized Religion

had yet to play

the pipe organ

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BUT

men and women

chanted ecstatically

and erotically

to drumbeats pounded

under the darkest midnight

  as their libidos did lurch

in their tribal 

and terpsichorean 

"church"

THEN

it must be true 

that

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"The First Religion Was Voodoo"

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BARBARA KINGSOLVER

The Poisonwood Bible

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