The Scientific Enlightenment spead in the west at no small cost
Imprisionment, blasphemy, censorship, internment, death
Yet the magnificent Secular, Spiritual Sceptical, Scientific Spirit Survived
and slowly tamed that infamous thing,  (un)Christian fundamentalism.

Now, again, a constant vigilance is required
It is the price we pay as unreformed superstition
Seeks to re-establish a new dark nest in the west –
truly it is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere

Those who can make people believe absurdities
can just as easily make them commit atrocities.
Common sense is not so common.

Secularism opposed again by Superstition
Free speech condemned by Scripture!

we must judge a man or woman solely by their independence of mind:
by the questions s/he asks, rather than by the answers.s/he has been taught to expect.