Dear Jon


Dear Jonathan Edwards –
may I call you Jon? –
It has come
to my attention
that on or about
July 8, 1741,
in Enfield, Connecticut,
you preached
a sermon called
Sinners In the Hands of
An Angry God.

Some have called it
the Dawn of
The First
Great Awakening.

I am calling it
The Great
Slander.

I am backdating
this letter to
July 4, 1741,
to allow a fews days
for delivery,
and to celebrate
my growing
Independence from the
cockamamie notion that
God is angry
with his/her
(it defies pronouns)

Beloved
Adored
Cherished
Endeared
Ones.

Not even with you,
in spite of your
Great
Besmirch!

Nevertheless,
in hopes of
precluding the
Puritan Stain
upon
the Beauty of
All That Is,

I must ask you to
Cease and Desist
from preaching
the Libel of an
angry
God.