Choice phrases:

"Church - State Separation"

"Undue imposition

Of religious beliefs

On the public" -

"Undue burden!"

"Unfair demand!"

Pronounced with vexation

And unjustified indignation

Are tricks - un-thought through - phrases

Concocted to bamboozle,

Cooked up to befool,

To keep in the dark

Away from the light,

To inhibit expression of truth -

Suppressing sober thinking.

For faithful believers

Not to urge truths -

Brought to light

By Redeemer Divine -

About morals and virtue -

The highest good of the public

Is not a case of

Open-mindedness and toleration

But a pathetic sight

Of craven spirit -

A tear-jerking resignation.

To keep apart

Religious faith from public life

Is to enter upon

An unsheltered ground,

Detaching state system from morals

Citizens from their consciences,

Citizens, at large, not conscience-smitten,

Culture, in the main, not conscience-stricken,

Politics liberally devoid of truth,

Laws unfair and brutish,

Plague-stricken - ailing nation,

For it failed to unite with truths

Unspeakably finer and greater -

Laboring, in vain, in the main,

Draining away 

For failing in its duty to heed

To "stern daughter of the voice of God"

Failing in duty to heed

To stand sturdy on feet

Little by little dying

For its denying

Truths supreme and undying.

"'We cannot apply moral criteria to politics...' Thus, we mix good and evil, right and wrong, and make space for the absolute triumph of absolute evil in the world... Just save the soul of the people! The rest will save itself."

                                            - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -