Moralistic Servants
Religious intolerance should be oxymoronic.
Instead it's ubiquitous,
a conduct quite sardonic.
Hypocrisy is rampant, incongruent with the creeds,
preach of love and practice hate:
manifested in misdeeds.
Hot-spots all over the globe, in past and present arose,
from distortions of beliefs
many deny or impose.
The crusades and pogroms massacred Muslim and Jew,
extant with other banners:
a current scourge to eschew.
All evil expeditions where faith-tenets instill harm,
must be disowned by leaders
and in all trigger alarm.
Fanatical zealots exercising bigotry,
are moralistic servants
of self-righteous idolatry.
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXA BXB CXC DED FEF GXG |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 597 |
Words | 90 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
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