Response to Dave

Dave commented on the poem ‘On the Road Home’ and speculated about the lines
“It was when you said
The idols have seen lots of poverty,
Snakes and gold and lice,
But not the truth";
Dave thought that the lines might mean, “that religion have had various effects or perhaps that religion is a tool for amassing inequality as the idols, here, have seen both poverty and gold.” I thought that the lines might mean that the idols have seen many different types of religion and to them all of it was wrong ‘poverty’ that none of it was the truth. The different types of religion were classified and compared to snakes (sneaky, swindling), gold (of false value), and lice (infestations of peoples minds but in the end, of little real value).