Abhijit Naskar's Blog - Posts Tagged "religious-fanatics"

Bunch of dried up prunes bathing in sewage water
to gain instant holiness are no good to me.
I want the brave and vigorous of heart and brain,
those teeming with life, I want the uncowardly.

I want the uncompromising, I want the unbending,
I want the pure, who’ve conquered their prejudice.
Only the undoctrinated can carry the godly thunder,
only the living can bear remedy to customs of malice.

If you’re failure as a christian according to the
church, you’re likely a true christian like Christ.
I work the world flooded with living Christs and
Buddhas, not dummkopfs obeying the dead and blind.

Enough with brainless bowing to holy heap of compost,
partake no more of the flea-ridden potion of fanaticism.
Abolish all relation with dogma and ritual superstition,
sterilized in the pyre of prejudice, Arise Dharmageddon!

My nation, your nation,
my religion, your religion,
my culture, your culture,
will be the end of us apes –

outwardly fancy, inwardly filthy,
sneering, leering, gutter-crawling,
conniving, two-faced, fanatic,
frivolous, pointless bloody apes –

apes who can’t see right from wrong,
without the blinkers of creed –
apes who can’t tell order from disorder,
unless instructed by legal decree –

apes who would sell their own brother,
if monkey kings command, it’s patriotic.

No literature is infallible, but while errors in scientific literature are proudly mended by later scientists, errors in religious literature are rarely mended – they are interpreted, reinterpreted, and justified in a million ways, but never questioned, as very few persons of faith have got the brain and backbone to acknowledge errors, let alone correct them – this is not holiness, it’s blindness most primitive.

Reverence without revision isn’t sanctity, it’s stagnation – and stagnation might feel honorous, but it leads to devolution. Just because it’s habit doesn’t make it holy – admission of error is the beginning of enlightenment.