You will not save your soul if you worship at Lourdes, Medjuorje or Mecca or pray at some holy well
If without reason you do not like somebody and wish this person in hell
And look down on your out of work neighbor because he or she is unemployed
It does not make you a good person to think you have god on your side
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Your poem I'm sure will satisfy anyone who sees the Golden Rule as the essence of morality whether it is voiced by Jesus, the Buddha, Mohammad, a Hebrew prophet, or a Greek philosopher. This is a poem very necessary for our vexed age when many people have no faith in anything supernatural and others, at the opposite extreme, burn with such a fierce faith they cannot tolerate anything else. Both extremes cause unhappiness fir individuals and society. Your sonnet cuts like the vajra sword right through the middle and reveals what all humans can agree with: COMPASSION COMES FROM WITHIN and GOOD PEOPLE HELP OTHERS. And those beliefs will save both lives and souls. I want your poem to be the Poem of the Day - and every day!