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As the symbols of |
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The metaphysics of the hangman are taken off the walls |
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Of our living rooms, |
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Humanity emancipates |
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Christ. Statues fall and die of age, |
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Just like us: inorganic decay. |
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The myths of the martyrs have waned -- |
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No longer do we mourn their loss. |
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Their children dance and play their games |
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In the shadow of the great old white cross. |
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Wealth heals all wounds and alleviates any kind of pain. |
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The shroud of the collective oblivion coats any individual scars. |
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The widows of the skeptical have passed away before they could retaliate. |
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And, those who baptized the world with the sword have long been buried, |
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And have not arisen from their graves. |
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The guardians of righteousness have lost their immaculity. |
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The rise of the enlightenment has defeated Christianity. |
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But, its legacy of fear and submissiveness prevails |
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In many brave man's heart and soul: |
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The saddening conception that humanity cannot choose its own destiny. |
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With our lives based on the hope for salvation, |
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The humanist paradigm is nothing but a charade. |
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Condemned to inertia; a passive race, |
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We wait and contemplate. |
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And, even in these days and age some people still believe |
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That Earth is at the center of God's own universe, |
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And that man was made the 7th day, evolution is a myth, |
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And that even bones of ancient creatures are no evidence |
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Of the fact that we are not the end of the chain. |
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And they won't leave their ship that is sinking. |
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They refuse to leave their ship that is sinking. |
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And, while they spoke of grace and love, forgiveness from above, |
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They nailed thousands of non-believers to their crude symbol of love |
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And, they won't leave their ship that is sinking. |
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They refuse to leave their ship that is sinking. |
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The myth that man is the crown of God's creation |
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Breeds the excuse to deplete the Earth today. |
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The myth that man is the crown of God's creation |
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Supports our present anthropocentric misconception. |
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And, even in these days and age some people still believe |
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That Earth is at the center of God's own universe, |
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Of the fact that we are not the end of the chain. |
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And, they won't leave their ship that is sinking. |
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They refuse to leave their ship that is sinking. |
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The myth that man is the crown of God's creation |
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Breeds the excuse to deplete the Earth today. |
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The myth that man is the crown of God's creation |
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Supports our present anthropocentric misconception. |
