I would have gotten there sooner
If not for my antipathy to my father
Hearing him fault my mother
Disparaging her wishful beliefs
Unlike you who rejected religion at fourteen
Choosing the path of science and logic
Deciding you would not participate
In the ritual ceremonies of feudalism
In those days few dared to be atheists
It being safer to be merely agnostic
And I myself was one of those
Avoiding the unavoidable conclusion
Now under the rubric of the culture wars
A modern day crusade wants to take back
Everything we have realized since then
Challenging white male hetero supremacy
It all fits together systemically
There is no separation of church and state
Granting tax exempt privileged status
Ruling that religion permits discrimination
The currency says In God We Trust
And the children learn One Nation Under God
Recited in unison every day in school
Told to stand and pledge allegiance
Meaning of course the one in the christian bible
Suspicious of the adherents of any other religion
But worst of all are the godless socialists
Who would do away with the entire system
