The Twelve Evils in the World

By Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

SO SAD AN OTHERWISE BEAUTIFUL WORLD

left an ocean many, down and trampled.

What are these menaces, so mean, so bold—

holding us from building a better world?

I LOOKED AROUND, LOOKED INTO, AND LOOKED THROUGH

exploring all barriers through and through.

With the shine from God, all things did unfold;

here they are: "The Twelve Evils in the World!"

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol
• Release date: Dec 23, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393351757

Book preview

Chapter 1:

THE FIRST EVIL

THE TREATING OF GOD AS RELIGION

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THE WORLD SO TREATED GOD AS RELIGION

that if you seek God, He’s in religion;

that if you’ve no religion, you’ve no God;

that if you kill religion, you’ve killed God!

IF GOD IS A RELIGION, WHICH IS HIS?—

for thousands got formed since man’s genesis.

If God is a religion, what god’s He?—

for each faith has its own kind of deity.

IF GOD IS A RELIGION, WHERE IS HE?—

Aren’t spirits heavenly, not earthly?

If God is a religion, who needs Him?—

Is religion sought by hungry victims?

CAN YOU BOX UP IN RELIGION WHO’S ALL

and confine Him in a house called temple?

And why separate the church from the state,

One who made the world can’t govern our fate?

GOD IS LOVE—BUT IS LOVE A RELIGION?

God is justice—justice a religion?

God is mercy—mercy a religion?

God is freedom—freedom a religion?

GOD IS NOT A RELIGION!  GOD IS LIFE!

Where there’s Life, there’s God; where there’s God, there’s Life!

God came not as a religion, but Life!

World can live without religions, not Life!

WHERE THERE’S NO LIFE, GOD IS THERE TO GIVE LIFE!

And it’s mainly because of lack of