The definitions of Religion you cannot Google.

He bowed down to an effigy who wore sari and red paint on lips;
And whistled at women who dressed the same.

She prayed for her husband's promotion and son's progress;
Her daughter kept on pleading to delay her teen marriage.

He sat outside the temple shivering in the thinnest sheet one could imagine;
A man in tuxedo passed him with a bundle of dollars and handed them to the saint whose gold could weigh almost half of him.

Starving, she saw men entering the octagonal house empty handed and returning with hand-filled food;
She went inside and post following the ritual was thrown out for a reason unknown to her.

After receiving a pat from his boss and realizing that his job was his true principle, to celebrate he went out to smoke;
A hungry child covered in rags, pulled his coat and asked for food, he handed him his half smoked cigarette

I asked an escort, what is religion to you?
She laughed, "The one I had faith in pushed me into this profession, you expect me to devote my time to someone who's existence is itself a matter of doubt?"

"Don't feed your goat so much, it'll die!"
"That is the motive, the sacrifice"

Are you, too, in this business?

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