A True Crusade

For those who credit religious feuds
With the ancient notions of tyranny,
The Crusades were fought for territory;
The Reconquista was fought for the same.
Yet, a war, where Christianity enflamed,
Sent thirty million to their deaths, with most
Cruel and unusual religious laws, so
Base and sadistic, it made the sexes
Unable to mingle with each other;
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Peace
Was its name; Theocracy in China
Led the British into the frenetic
War, which raged for fourteen years, and total
Desolation havocked China's Eastern
Countryside, where the Christian Cult entrenched.