There is a poignancy to the imaginative that in many ways is more powerful than mere fact or logic. I feel very much that this is the case in our current day more that it has ever been. If we ever hope to recapture the hearts of a generation for God, We need to give them more than a logical apologetic. We need to give them an apologetic of the imaginative. To outline the glory of the living God in such a way as to burn into the mind for all time His beauty. This will never happen until we ourselves have had our minds eye seared by his majesty. The Hebrew word for glory is כבד, transliterated kabod and pronounced (K-B-D). The original meaning of the word is literal “weight” or “heaviness. It is only when we learn to stand daily beneath the weight of the glory of God in our lives that we will deliver an apologetic that is robust and powerful, multidimensional and filled with a power that goes far beyond our mere intellect. The goal of the following prose is to kindle the imagination. To illuminate the darkness of the modern mind today. For the Christian worldview I have written nothing however, in the hope that we in the coming season may be the instruments by which God writes the story of his glory. I am certain that its beauty will take our breath away.
The Relativist
We believe in Marxfreudanddarwin,
We believe everything is
OK. as long as you don’t hurt anyone;
to the best of your definition of hurt,
and to the best of your knowledge.
We believe in sex before, during, and after
marriage.
We believe in the therapy of sin.We believe that adultery is
fun.
We believe that sodomy’s OK. We believe that taboos are taboo.
We believe
that everything’s getting better despite evidence to the contrary.
The evidence
must be investigated And you can prove anything with evidence.
We believe
there’s something in horoscopes, UFO’s and bent spoons.
Jesus was a good man
just like Buddha, Mohammed, and ourselves.
He was a good moral teacher though
we think His good morals were bad.
We believe that all religions are basically
the same- at least the one that we read was.
They all believe in love and
goodness.
They only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and
salvation.
We believe that after death comes the Nothing,
Because when you ask
the dead what happens they say nothing.
If death is not the end, if the dead
have lied, then its compulsory heaven for all
excepting perhaps Hitler, Stalin,
and Genghis Kahn.
We believe in Masters and Johnson:
What’s selected is
average, What’s average is normal, What’s normal is good.
We believe in total
disarmament.
We believe there are direct links between warfare and bloodshed.
Americans should beat their guns into tractors and the Russians would be sure
to follow.
We believe that man is essentially good. It’s only his behavior that
lets him down.
This is the fault of society. Society is the fault of
conditions. Conditions are the fault of society.
We believe that each man must
find the truth that is right for him
Reality will adapt accordingly. The
universe will readjust, History will alter.
We believe that there is no
absolute truth excepting the truth that there is no absolute truth.
We believe
in the rejection of creeds, And the flowering of individual thought.
Postscript:If chance be the Father of all flesh, disaster is his rainbow in the sky.and when you hear: State of Emergency! Sniper Kills Ten!Troops on Rampage! Youths go Looting! Bomb Blasts School!It is but the sound of man worshiping his maker.
-Creed by Steve Turner
The Hedonist
Well it’s not all analysis or mathematic expression
oh all the simple things in life are not small
and all your daily drama and the politics of pleasure
well they really do not matter much at all
so let your words start spilling out against your will
and let your love mingle with mine
close your eyes, look at me, open up your heart you’ll see that we can share a moment,
and all your daily drama and the politics of pleasure
well they really do not matter much at all
so let your words start spilling out against your will
and let your love mingle with mine
close your eyes, look at me, open up your heart you’ll see that we can share a moment,
a moment in time
Tell me what’s so bad, about feeling good
Tell me what’s so bad, about feeling good
Tell me what’s so bad, about feeling good
No guilt. All Pleasure. C’mon I wanna hear you yell it now
No guilt. All Pleasure. C’mon everybody yell it now
No guilt. All Pleasure. I wanna hear you yell it baby
No guilt. All Pleasure. C’mon everybody…Tell me what’s so bad, about feeling good
–Whats so bad about feelin good- Ben lee
The Nihilist
“I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning;
consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to
find satisfying reasons for this assumption. The philosopher who finds no
meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in
metaphysics, he is also concerned to prove that there is no valid reason why he
personally should not do as he wants to do, or why his friends should not seize
political power and govern in the way that they find most advantageous to
themselves… For myself, the philosophy of meaningless was essentially an
instrument of liberation, sexual and political.”
- Aldous Huxley in Ends and Means
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