I'd love to hear what you think about the song.
I’m so tired of these mortal men
with their hands on their wallets and their hearts full of sin
scared of their enemies, scared of their friends
and always running for re-election
so come to DC if it be thy will
because we’ve never had a savior on Capitol Hill
you can always trust the devil or a politician
to be the devil or a politician
but beyond that friends you’d best beware
’cause at the Pentagon bar they’re an inseparable pair
and as long as the lobbyists are paying their bills
we’ll never have a savior on Capitol Hill
[Bridge]
all of our problems gonna disappear
when we can whisper right in that President’s ear
he could walk right across the reflection pool
in his combat boots and ten thousand dollar suit
you can render unto Caesar everything that’s his
you can trust in his power to come to your defense
it’s the way of the world, the way of the gun
it’s the trading of an evil for a lesser one
so don’t hold your breath or your vote until
you think you’ve finally found a savior up on Capitol Hill
(music and lyrics by Derek Webb)
5 comments:
If you trade an evil for a lesser one, aren't you making progress?
Rob,
LOL, I suppose that's one way of looking at it. I would point out the obvious (I am good at that): you are still getting evil.
But what if you didn't have to choose between greater and lesser evils when it comes time to "vote?" What if you could have the perfect Ruler?
The Perfect Ruler was offered the job by Satan and turned it down. That speaks volumes about politicians and rulers. It seems to me that the only way we are going to get home is to play with Jesus and then let Him bat clean up.
Right on the button, Lamar. This world's politics is about the same thing as Jesus' politics -- kingdom, power and glory. Jesus says it belongs to the Father, who has given it now to His Son. The world's kingdoms and leaders all claim it as their own. There is no other way to explain the murderous intensity with which they defend their kingdoms and the easy justification they all find for self-absorption.
At the same time, the world's true Lord does reign, and will one day reign so absolutely, so completely, that he will vanquish all pretending kingdoms. I always need to be reminded that we are aliens in a land that has become foreign to us. We are ambassadors of another King, another kingdom.
I am always a sucker for a baseball analogy. Love Jesus hitting clean up. What would his slugging percentage be?
Miroslav Volf (gosh, he really nails it for me): The root of Christian self-understanding as aliens and sojourners lies not so much in the story of Abraham and Sarah and the nation of Israel as it does in the destiny of Jesus Christ, his mission and his rejection which ultimately brought him to the cross. “He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him” (John 1:11). He was a stranger to the world because the world into which he came was estranged from God. And so it is with his followers. “When a person becomes a believer, then he (or she) moves from the far country to the vicinity of God…. There now arises a relation of reciprocal foreignness and estrangement between Christians and the world.” [6] Christians are born of the Spirit (John 3:8) and are therefore not “from the world” but, like Jesus Christ, “from God” (John 15:19).
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