SEVEN LIMERICKS ON PROTESTANT THEMES

 

There was a young Stuart went grinning
Thinking it not as a sinning
But God saw him do it
Said, “Listen up Stuart!
It is when there’s pride underpinning.”

 

An iconoclast known just as Michael
Objected that time doesn’t cycle
But goes in a line
By God’s plain design
Just as it says in the Bible.

 

There was a young monk named Martin
Who rejected the price they were askin’
For a note from the Pope
Dispensing the hope
That a sinner can pay for a pardon.

 

Luther decided that works
Are beloved of theology’s jerks
And that a priest’s ordination
Is a common vocation
Just as it is with the Turks.

There was a reformer named Zwingli
Who prayed till his toes went all tingly
Impressed by infinity
He questioned the Trinity
And conceived of the One just as singly.

 

There once was a prominent Master
Who was taught by his Calvanist pastor
That his prominent place
Was in God’s chosen race
And that everyone else face disaster.

 

The Protestants rose up in schism
Coz they saw through a Protestant prism
That man’s every labour
Reflects on the Saviour
And the price that He paid when arisen. 

 

- O. Spaniel Murray