Democritus Gets the Last Laugh
Not only the corpus of Christ crucified
But the wise words of men not deified
Atoms, philosophy, reason unchained
Imagine a world if Christ had not reigned!
Copernicus the first man on the moon
Augustine condemned as a royal buffoon
Hellenic wisdom? ‘Twas never doomed
By the fires of faith, our wisdom not consumed
Oh what a world where belief is not love
Where meaning does not descend from above
Children taught all about Democritus
Only fragments survive from Saint Aquinas
Candidates for office out smart each other
Without appeals to “our holy father”
Women control their bodies and fortunes
No fat old priests who shame or importune
Sexuality is free from constraint
Without original sin’s cruel taint
A world without god, full of disbelief
Oh, now wouldn’t that be quite a relief?
