Abdul Malik Mandani Poet Free verse

What I Believe

The Noble Prize-winning American Physicist Steven Weinberg said,
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.”


All you need is one word,
Erase just one word
from the minds of the people,
Rout out just one idea, one concept,
Eliminate Religion from the
dictionary of humankind—
Man’s most stupendous and
the gravest faux pas!

And, you’ll see peace,
happiness, brotherhood.
Then there won’t be any infidels,
No gentiles, No heathens,
No pagans, No Idol worshipers.
No racism, no hatred, no jihad,
No crusades, no inquisition,
No persecution, no repercussion.

No church, no mosque,
No temple, no synagogue,
No holy scriptures
No words of God
No places of pilgrimage
No holy sites, no holy icons,
There won’t be a pope or a priest,
Nor any saint or a swami,
No mullah, no imam,
No pundit or any rabbi.

No one to dupe you
No one to lure you
No Satan, no sin,
No guilty conscience,
No need for confession
No need for salvation...
And what the hell,
There won’t be any hell!


~Contest: What I believe
~Sponsor: Angela Tune

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Kim Rodrigues December 11, 2022 at 2:22 PM Well written. Still God does exist and He is apparent when love runs through the church. It is a piece of heaven…not perfected but a taste. Thanks for sharing your view which could place high. Abdul Malik Mandani December 11, 2022 at 3:38 PM Yeah, He does! He does!! And, celebrating Christmas time in Ukraine!

L Milton Hankins December 8, 2022 at 8:03 PM Wow! I hardly know what to say, Abdul, except I wholeheartedly agree with much that you've written here. And, let me say, it's a shame that it is, in many respects, true. Unfortunately, the religion that teaches love, too often promotes bigotry and hatred. Shameful! Abdul Malik Mandani December 8, 2022 at 8:27 PM You know what Benjamin Franklin once said, “The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.” If only we can all be the reasonable people, we can see the truth! Thanks, appreciate your comment much.