There is bound to be a schism
whenever fundamentalism
confronts progressive thinking in the church.
The problem with Theism
when it passes through the prism
of reason is it splits, distorts the object of the search.

When first the gentle Arians
found their views at variance
with the more aggressive Church of Rome,
bones were broken blood was shed.
They did not pray but fought instead,
for the right to claim the Christian message as their own.

A child conceived from Divine Jizzum
by a Virgin? Tritheism?
That issue split split Orthodox from Catholic creed.
The centuries later Lutherism
questioned if the Christ was risen
or should communicants eat unleavened bread.

The Protestant condemnation
of transubstantiation
led Neitsche to conclude that God was dead
but the Evanelical revival
gave the established church a rival.
Through internicine conflict faith was saved.

Now the Anglican communion
falls into disunion.
The split? Can gays and women serve The Lord?
And they’re about to have a schism,
it’s a Christian tradition.
Lust for power screams out louder than the word.