A Virtuous Irony
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Now, every religion has its own Belief while some of us cannot believe in (any) religion.
Who’s to say who’s right or wrong?
Should we not give everyone the benefit of the doubt, each going his or her own way while taking care to share the better, kinder, principles of a common humanity? Some religions treat any diversion from its dogma as a cardinal sin. Whatever happened to that freedom of the human spirit to express itself in its own way, and who has the right to condemn someone for acting in good faith if not within dogma's stricter parameters?
Religion is meant to be about love and peace...and mutual respect for another person's spiritual identity, whether or not it relates to the same religion or any religion at all if only because religion (as I discovered for myself even as a child) has no monopoly on spirituality.
A sense of spirituality is common to us all, just as it is down to each and every one of us to tap into it
if and how we choose. Yet, what is a cause for celebration is so often marked by those who should know better as a cause for division.
A VIRTUOUS IRONY
Religious festivals are times
people come together,
are good to one another, braving
dark and stormy weather
Religious festivals make merry
come rain, snow, winter mist,
find sunny smiles not on any list
left by old Jack Frost
But you can’t always believe
all they so love to feed us,
like comfort and joy at Christmas
(just ask the homeless)
No, you cannot always believe
everything they tell you,
be the preacher Christian, Muslim,
Sikh, Jew or Hindu…
Religion (not God) is the listener
ever turning a deaf ear
come Ramadan, Diwali, Passover
and Easter once a year
In truth, we should learn to respect
Faiths across the world,
ironically divided by a single word,
a comfort zone called ‘God’
Who and what should we believe
when so many use religion
for their own ends, as ammunition,
back-up for a safe h(e)aven?
All religions encourage suspicion,
led by Masters of Ceremony
tasked with making a virtue of irony
behind a mask of spirituality
Copyright R. N. Taber 2009; 2016
Now, every religion has its own Belief while some of us cannot believe in (any) religion.
Who’s to say who’s right or wrong?
Should we not give everyone the benefit of the doubt, each going his or her own way while taking care to share the better, kinder, principles of a common humanity? Some religions treat any diversion from its dogma as a cardinal sin. Whatever happened to that freedom of the human spirit to express itself in its own way, and who has the right to condemn someone for acting in good faith if not within dogma's stricter parameters?
Religion is meant to be about love and peace...and mutual respect for another person's spiritual identity, whether or not it relates to the same religion or any religion at all if only because religion (as I discovered for myself even as a child) has no monopoly on spirituality.
A sense of spirituality is common to us all, just as it is down to each and every one of us to tap into it
if and how we choose. Yet, what is a cause for celebration is so often marked by those who should know better as a cause for division.
A VIRTUOUS IRONY
Religious festivals are times
people come together,
are good to one another, braving
dark and stormy weather
Religious festivals make merry
come rain, snow, winter mist,
find sunny smiles not on any list
left by old Jack Frost
But you can’t always believe
all they so love to feed us,
like comfort and joy at Christmas
(just ask the homeless)
No, you cannot always believe
everything they tell you,
be the preacher Christian, Muslim,
Sikh, Jew or Hindu…
Religion (not God) is the listener
ever turning a deaf ear
come Ramadan, Diwali, Passover
and Easter once a year
In truth, we should learn to respect
Faiths across the world,
ironically divided by a single word,
a comfort zone called ‘God’
Who and what should we believe
when so many use religion
for their own ends, as ammunition,
back-up for a safe h(e)aven?
All religions encourage suspicion,
led by Masters of Ceremony
tasked with making a virtue of irony
behind a mask of spirituality
Copyright R. N. Taber 2009; 2016
Labels: faith, human nature, humanity, irony, life, love, morality, peace, religion, respect, spirituality
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