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Religion?
Religon?
The "opiate of the masses"?
How many classes
do we have to attend
to learn about God?
Is it the Bible today,
the Koran tomorrow,
burning the midnight oil
to find in what soil
the Ark lies buried?
Would that God Himself
would come down from above
and help us solve His mysteries.
Instead, we look
in ev'ry book and cranny
of the library, to see
if He is hidden there.
What knave like I. Kant
would rave and rant
at midnight hour
along with Schopenhauer?
They knew some answers,
but it would take a month
of Sundays to grind the grist
to just make up the pages missed
while praying on the Sabbath.
Why is it, after spending all our days
absorbing page on page,
we still go on our sinful ways,
religion in our hearts and minds
for which we never pay the wage.
Somewhere it says
"the wages of sin is death",
and you can bet we'll get there
sooner or later, Bible and Koran set aside
by those of us who loved and died,
and we seldom the wiser for it.
Religion upon religion,
sung by legions of men,
pursuing and eschewing,
then caught in their foibles
as poor begging mortals,
forgetting the multinumbered things
religion brings.
And so the question remains:
Religion?
~Jack~
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Jan 1,
2003
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