In "The Day Zimmer Lost Religion" by Paul Zimmer the poet reflects how in losing religion he has found faith in Christ. He recounts how religion taught him to fear Christ as a young boy which influenced him to challenge religion and eventually find faith in Christ. As a child, he expected to be punished, but the punishment never comes and now as a man he realizes he is ready to accept Christ as he …showed first 75 words of 530 total…

…showed last 75 words of 530 total…never came, knowing that / I was grown up and ready for Him now" (20-21), indicate that the Christ of his childhood religion did not come, but now as an adult he has lost his boyhood religion and has found faith in Christ. This poem could reasonably be entitled “The day Zimmer Lost Religion and Found Christ.” Zimmer believed in God and Christ; it was the bureaucracy of religion that he did not believe or accept.