Nothing Common About That Crucified Criminal Poem by Terence George Craddock

The one who claps claps exclaims,
Jesus was nothing a common criminal,
has forgotten an ability to think reason.
A common criminal crucified, who now
influences a world two thousand years
later, who many proclaim him to be holy.

A nobody from a backward province,
ruled by Rome, who still today influences,
the world is not a common criminal.

Ask good lawyers about the influence
of Jesus, an influence that inspired both
the Magna Carta, and a document famous;
an American Declaration of Independence;
most moral and ethical laws, that globally
enrich and protect developed human society.