Religionism

Worship & Sacrifice
Go hand & hand
Throughout the land,
Sanctioning killing on command,
Ready to die on demand-
Alters & Tabernacles,
Antennae & Tentacles,
Revealed in Oracles & Miracles...

Worship & Sacrifice,
Face to face mirrors,
Via terrors & horrors,
In Pagodas & Temples,
Mosques & Synagogues -
Infallible dispensers & cryptic deciphers
Of texts hidden in Scriptures
And bizarre monologues,
Of influential demagogues...

Worship & Sacrifice,
Self-immolation,
Kindled by fables, sagas & epics,
Woven in fear & dark superstition;
Traditional suspicion cloistered in customs,
Indoctrination (psychic molestation),
Mental castration, a perpetual hoax
Of shamans & popes,
Genies & ghosts
Allied with angelic & demonic hosts...

Worship & Sacrifice -
Gateways to heaven?
Blasphemy? Heresy? Idolatry?
Rituals & Totems,
Ceremonies & omens,
Gift-wrapped in "What if"
And pious Amens!