11-24-2017, 06:54 PM
The Death Of (insert your name here) ism.
Can you be a cult-buster if you’ve got no cult of your own?
If you can’t spin them a better yarn, do they want to be left alone?
So many footsteps on the paths, everyone practicing isms,
so many paths within the paths, but once off-track they’re schisms?
No-one believes in anything but their own beliefs confirmed,
too lazy to even make them up, they’re easily sold and burned
by any old story neatly put and a nicely marketed Boss…
“Just give me a nice congregation and somewhere to wear my gold cross.
Give me a text I can toss about, give me a prayer to say.
Give me a ritual to boast about, give me a slogan to wave.”
Nobody wants an unfathomed God, nor a Faith that is undocumented
Nobody laughs at the Emperor’s clothes lest the others might think him demented.
Everything’s path if God’s everywhere, there isn’t a place you can tread
where He isn’t, so why must we stay on some path like God is far off and ahead?
“Catch Him up later, read this book, learn this theology.”
You can’t have a personal relationship with someone’s biography!
But that’s what comes to replace it while you study the new position
locating the God that is everywhere while you carefully kill your own ism.
Can you be a cult-buster if you’ve got no cult of your own?
If you can’t spin them a better yarn, do they want to be left alone?
So many footsteps on the paths, everyone practicing isms,
so many paths within the paths, but once off-track they’re schisms?
No-one believes in anything but their own beliefs confirmed,
too lazy to even make them up, they’re easily sold and burned
by any old story neatly put and a nicely marketed Boss…
“Just give me a nice congregation and somewhere to wear my gold cross.
Give me a text I can toss about, give me a prayer to say.
Give me a ritual to boast about, give me a slogan to wave.”
Nobody wants an unfathomed God, nor a Faith that is undocumented
Nobody laughs at the Emperor’s clothes lest the others might think him demented.
Everything’s path if God’s everywhere, there isn’t a place you can tread
where He isn’t, so why must we stay on some path like God is far off and ahead?
“Catch Him up later, read this book, learn this theology.”
You can’t have a personal relationship with someone’s biography!
But that’s what comes to replace it while you study the new position
locating the God that is everywhere while you carefully kill your own ism.