The Scientific Enlightenment came at no small cost

Christianity took a thousand years to subdue

Now Islam is in the west, as fundamentalism is born anew

Imprisonment, blasphemy, books burnt, inquisition, internment, death.

Yet, the Secular-Spiritual-Sceptical-Scientific spirit survives

A new constant vigilance is the price we pay

As unreformed superstition seeks to re-establish a new dark nest in the west.

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Truly it is difficult to free fools from the chains they choose

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 murderous superstition

Free speech condemned by (un)holy men

We must judge a man or woman by their independence of mind:

By the questions s/he asks,

Rather than by the answers.s/he has been taught to expect.