REFLECTIONS IN RHYMES


RELIGION

HISTORICAL

Religions talk of heaven and hell

As where in future we all will dwell.                              

 No prophet’s words are widely read

That fervent followers haven’t spread.

Religions begin to degenerate

When all they do is God venerate.                       

Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Moses

Did more than eat and sleep like the rest of us.                         

When humans hunted and lived in caves

They had no priests or rites, or even graves.

Pure truth in religion if you wish to find

Keep all history out of your mind.

Of gods and scriptures we find no trace

Among the early hunters of the human race.     

Reject not religions of the past.

Change them, and then make them last.             

Those who authored scriptures’ pages

Were scientific theorists of bygone ages.

There’s not a single faith indeed

That hasn’t fought with another creed.

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Varadaraja V. Raman

Physicist, philosopher, explorer of ideas, bridge-builder, devotee of Modern Science and Enlightenment, respecter of whatever is good and noble in religious traditions as well as in secular humanism,versifier and humorist, public speaker, dreamer of inter-cultural,international,inter-religious peace.

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