Ah! How they speak with such authority, Seeking to obtain our full conformity, As if they are God’s special appointee To lord it over us—over you and me.   Their power they get from books they’ve read Penned by folks who are now long since dead, And which they regard as God’s very Word, A claim they make that’s just most absurd.   These books all it’s mere men who wrote, This fact is clear, this one can easily note, For, on grounds of logic, and ethics as well, They often mis

Come, see how they loudly declaim (With all of them, it’s just the same), That the Will of God they well know, Each insisting that this is really so, Based on books in which they hold God His message to Man has told.   It’s funny but their books don’t match, And here clearly lies a very big catch, For if all these books were from God (And not the writings of some fraud), Why divergent things would they say, Each against the rest in many a way?   If God had sent them, this cou

Ah! See with what gusto they loudly hail The many creeds they’ve put up for sale, Each of these available for a heavy price: That your freedom you must sacrifice, For they demand you hand over control Of your mind and your life as a whole To them, so that you do just as they say, Over your life giving them complete sway.   Don’t be so foolish to do as they say you must, Don’t, my dearest, in their ‘sweet’ words trust, For, if you do so, this fact you must know well: You’ll ca

I’ve been on this planet for almost six decades now, and I’ve been fortunate to see a fair portion of it. I’ve been able to travel widely, not just in the country where I was born but elsewhere, too. My penchant for travelling started early, in childhood itself. My parents took us children on numerous trips during our school vacations. Later, the sort of work that I took up was such that for me it often seemed like a paid holiday—I got to travel widely for a job that I then j