Nothing angers like success

After Acts 5:17-21

The sick healed,

the demons cast out,

people coming together

to pray, to worship,

to sing, and the share, 

and the powers that be,

good elites that they are,

sense disquiet, sense danger,

sense threats to the status quo,

all of which means threats

to themselves, threats

to their positions, so

they do what any self-respecting

elites would do, and arrest

these rabble rousers and

peace disturbers, tossing them

into cells and securely locking

the threats away.

So they think.

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