Pope embarassed, clergy disgraced,
twenty year mission, lost in space
Angels discovered, (LGBT group with wings)
warm in the stable, cherubim sings
Turin Shroud faker, waits pearly gate,
will his deception, decide a grim fate?
NASA confounded, confused and reeling,
funding withdrawn for project supreme being
Millions starve while archbishops get fatter,
martyrs revive, to discuss the latter
TV preachers line their pockets, blaming
zion for failing rockets
Somewhere, nowhere Jehovah watches,
smiling strong at earthly botches
Sends down for men, new commandments,
guilded words without transendence
Only one instead of ten, simple words
etched out for men, read quite clear the
Meaning’s plain,
DON’T SEND UP A ROCKET AGAIN!
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