Post-Modern Prosperity Gospel of Our Bourgeois God

“Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness.” Genesis 1:26

“In a word, [the bourgeoisie] creates a world after its own image.” The Communist Manifesto

Algorithms

Work like we wish

God would

 

Read our minds

Our Siri whines

Conversations mic’d

 

Digital prayers

Into the cloud

Into the cart

 

Where God

Fills

Our scrolling hearts

 

Delivers all manner

Of goods

Services

 

Words of wisdom

Curated answers

Biases eternally confirmed

 

Self-loathing

Anything lilies of the field

Can afford

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