Christianity Unveiled (Ode to the father of modern atheism), By Brian37
Epicurus
And Lucretius
Skeptical
Long ago
The dark night
The cloak of theism
For centuries
Buried inquiry
Deism arose
In response
To human cruelty
As a compromise to allow for a god
But amongst these enlightened ones
A refusal to do so
Gave birth
To modern atheism
Authorities as expected
Upon his public denial
The frightened ones
Ceased his books upon publishing
10 years elapse
After his death
Books with pseudonyms
Publicly burned
Paul Heinrich Dietrich
Took blasphemy
Further than anyone
Dared to go
"If the ignorance of nature
Gave birth to such a variety of gods,
The knowledge of this nature
Is calculated to destroy them"
*The bluntness of his quill
Put men in their infancy of thought
Which they were infatuated with
Viewing them as enslaved fanatics*
Their vanity
Based on concoctions
The needless distraction
Of mere superstition
(end)
Second to last stanza is a paraphrase of this quote "It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism."
Quotes sourced from this link.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Baron_d%27Holbach#SourcedBooks quoted and paraphrased are
"Le Christianisme devoile(Christianity Unveiled)
"The System of Nature"