Illustration 2376

Poem★

And pay a million priests to bring it.
After two thousand years of mass,
We’ve got as far as poison gas.?

— Tuomas

Also attributed to: Unknown

The point

A cynical verse lamenting that centuries of religious ritual produced poison gas rather than moral progress.

Audience
AdultsYouth
Tone
Sobering · Cynical
To tell aloud
under a minute · 21 words

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Illustration 2376