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“Science, Religion & Superstition (The Sonnet) Religion is all evil, is the superstition, That half-cocked rationalists suffer from. Science is devil's work, is the superstition, That bookish religionists suffer from. Take the I and cross it out, Lo, you have a living Christ! Take the self and set it on fire, Lo, you have a timeless light! Yes, I want to convert the world, I want to convert all cussing into hugging. Yes, I want to convert the people, all of them, I want to convert mindless mocking into mending. I am no preacher, I am no scholar, I am no thinker. But, without some basic humanity, we shall all wither.” — Abhijit Naskar
Science, Religion & Superstition (The Sonnet)
Religion is all evil, is the superstition,
That half-cocked rationalists suffer from.
Science is devil's work, is the superstition,
That bookish religionists suffer from.
Take the I and cross it out,
Lo, you have a living Christ!
Take the self and set it on fire,
Lo, you have a timeless light!
Yes, I want to convert the world,
I want to convert all cussing into hugging.
Yes, I want to convert the people, all of them,
I want to convert mindless mocking into mending.
I am no preacher, I am no scholar, I am no thinker.
But, without some basic humanity, we shall all wither.