Humanist Poems

Breaking Chains

By: Dorothy B. Thompson PHD
Used by Permission

What is it that you fear from truth?
And why do you fear science?
Believe in lies you learned in youth
And cling to god reliance?
Without that fear you'd use your brain,
Read histories and reason.
But faith has said you should remain
Passive or it is treason.
It is a tragedy to fear
A god, hell or demon.
Religion is but lies, it's clear
And you could be a freeman.
Those words like "holy," "faith" and "saint"
Are made up to deceive you,
All dogma is for mind constraint,
To fill with guilt and grieve you.
But once the shackles of the church
Are broken down forever
A blessed end to spirit search.
No dreading whatsoever!