{"id":341127,"date":"2017-12-26T12:36:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T11:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-different-prayer-dissident-voice\/"},"modified":"2017-12-26T12:36:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T11:36:49","slug":"a-different-prayer-dissident-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-different-prayer-dissident-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"A different prayer | Dissident Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-75109\">\n<p class=\"byline\">by Sheshu Babu \/ December 24th, 2017<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Jesus! Lord!<br \/>Son of God!<br \/>My dude!<\/p>\n<p>Like your arduous journey of life<br \/>Full of strife<br \/>I too faced difficulties<\/p>\n<p>Miracles<br \/>Cured lepers<br \/>Restored vision to blind<br \/>Hungry people received loaf of bread \u2026<br \/>I do not believe in miracles or supernatural healing<br \/>But I wholeheartedly appreciate your yearning<br \/>To cure people of diseases<br \/>And eliminate poverty and wretchedness<\/p>\n<p>You are a Budha prince<br \/>Wondering from place to place<br \/>A prophet Muhammad<br \/>Teaching universal Brotherhood<br \/>A Guru Nanak<br \/>Explaining ideas democratic<br \/>Or the benevolent Mahabali<br \/>Who, for the sake of keeping promise, sacrificed his life happily<\/p>\n<p>I see a Marx and a Lenin<br \/>Who dreamed of revolution<br \/>A valiant Che Guevara<br \/>The hero of south America<\/p>\n<p>You were unjustly crucified<br \/>When one of your disciples betrayed<br \/>Like many other prophets and preachers<br \/>Killed by their own backstabbing followers \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Jesus! My friend<br \/>You are my guide<br \/>I do not offer prayer<br \/>But I treat you as my tutor<br \/>Whose life is a lesson<br \/>That teaches how to live simple, pure and clean<\/p>\n<p>Sheshu Babu is a writer who wants to foster the whole world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/author\/sheshubabu\/\">Read other articles by Sheshu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"postmeta\">This article was posted on Sunday, December 24th, 2017 at 8:02am and is filed under <a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/category\/poetry\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Poetry<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/12\/a-different-prayer\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Sheshu Babu \/ December 24th, 2017 Jesus! Lord!Son of God!My dude! Like your arduous journey of lifeFull of strifeI too faced difficulties MiraclesCured lepersRestored vision to blindHungry people received loaf of bread \u2026I do not believe in miracles or supernatural healingBut I wholeheartedly appreciate your yearningTo cure people of diseasesAnd eliminate poverty and wretchedness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-341127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}