Try Using Your Cerebral Cortex

Repeating mantras won't suffice for thought
but only tease the limbic lizard brain
with falsities of an afterlife pain
from a clergyman's demonic mascot
in the amygdaloid nucleus
or in the paleostriatum cells
to motivate the heavens with more hells
and thereby tyrannize the rest of us
with shakedowns of suppositious fable
by Sunday school nightmare endorsed force
in church, mosque, or synagogue intercourse,
or televangelist through the cable...
which did the trick for Reagan and the Pope
for placing reason on a downward slope.