Common Sense Can Be Injurious To Health

For most of growing up

people thought I had a sense of humour

and I thought, fair enough,

humans are idiots.

Years of assurances later,

when I was finally ready to believe

I might just be funny,

I discovered Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code.

Do you know what it says?

No? Don’t worry.

I’ll read it to you:

“Question a god, and law will slaughter you. Religion will sanction it.”

Because omnipotent beings

clearly need a third-world judiciary,

neck-deep in debt,

to preserve their dignity,

while humans choke on reality.

So what if millions died?

So what if hundreds of thousands were lynched, raped, erased?

God had a plan,

and apparently, that plan

did not include human survival.

But those same gods

forget their plans at home,

every year, leaving a handful of humans

to whisper dangerously:

“Wait… maybe your miracle was just a story?”

Say that aloud, and congratulations:

your neurons are now in handcuffs,

your curiosity is a fugitive,

your common sense has been summoned to court,

and your cerebrum has been detained for questioning.

Because the law, in its infinite wisdom,

has come to realise

the gods are fragile, feeble in ego and anatomy.

Which means either the gods are stories,

or at the very least, their infallibility is.

And in all honesty,

that —

right there —

is exactly what waking up sounds like.

Check and mate?