Hymn - Intellectual

[Verse 1: Romanovsky]

If there's something to be learned from examining the past

It's that institutions change or else they do not last

Now you are such a dinosaur in the ancient ways you think

And if you do not soon adapt, you too will be extinct

I believe that Christ's intention many centuries ago

Was to serve and to enlighten and to guide our spiritual growth

But the latest word from Rome is not a loving one at all

If Jesus walked on earth today, I think he'd be appalled

Now the priesthood's quickly shrinking but you won't let women in

And instead of teaching safer sex you condemn it as a sin

You deny all women the right to decide their bodies' fate

Suggesting that their purpose here is just to procreate

You say that gays and lesbians are fallen from God's grace

And tacitly you sanction all the violence that we face

You distort the Bible's words to support your platitudes

But bigotry is not a very Christian attitude

Now as for reformation, I have very little hope

But if you think it can be done, go and tell it to the Pope

'Cause the clergy and parishioners who are still inside the closet

Support this persecution even if they do not cause it