Per Omnia Secula Seculorum

Per Omnia Secula Seculorum

 After seventeen hundred years

Western man, enlightened,

Challenged ecclesial peers

With reason, new life to heighten.

Birthed in the tradition

Of The Way,

This rational ambition

Aimed to keep the Church at bay.

No longer any authority revealed,

No transcendent absolute.

A new rationale to wield

Fluid thought making the Word moot.

Indisputable benefit from

This thought-provoked alliance

New depths to plumb

Discovery of modern science.

Though great its gift

To humankind abound,

It began its drift

From absolute ground.

Progressive thought

Lives in the abstract,

Its moorings fraught

With no absolute truths to transact.

Enlightened people crown

Themselves with scientific certainty

Using governments and law to drown

Out any opposing views fervently.

They decide to call

Themselves secular,

To distance from all

The religiously spectacular.

The secular don’t want to hear

Of any tradition in the public square.

Rhetoric is what they fear

From traditionalist who dare.

Diversity is the thought of the day,

A tolerance for almost any.

But listen closely to what they say,

Because they tolerate not the many.

If Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh,

Or Yellow, Brown, or Black,

The secular consider them weak

Because of the Christian historical track.

The secular controls the square

Admitting only what it allows.

While denying who gave it air

To the ungodly it bows.

But there is no secular,

So to this thought make a moratorium.

God’s universe is bound molecular,

Per omnia secula seculorum.

WENjr