tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post2391177065028352405..comments2024-03-27T08:46:54.369-04:00Comments on BabyBlueOnline: No time for teaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17490745238430648958noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23327221.post-48044751409358437312007-07-08T14:59:00.000-04:002007-07-08T14:59:00.000-04:00On StandFirm here: http://www.standfirminfaith.com...On StandFirm here: http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/4221/#77757<BR/><BR/>The song reminds me of the lines from Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach:<BR/><BR/>The Sea of Faith<BR/>Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore<BR/>Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.<BR/>But now I only hear<BR/>Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,<BR/>Retreating, to the breath<BR/>Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear<BR/>And naked shingles of the world.<BR/><BR/>Ah, love, let us be true<BR/>To one another! for the world, which seems<BR/>To lie before us like a land of dreams,<BR/>So various, so beautiful, so new,<BR/>Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,<BR/>Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;<BR/>And we are here as on a darkling plain<BR/>Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,<BR/>Where ignorant armies clash by night.<BR/><BR/>-Matthew Arnold (from Dover Beach)<BR/><BR/>never cared for what they say<BR/>never cared for games they play<BR/>never cared for what they do<BR/>never cared for what they know<BR/>and I know<BR/><BR/>So close, no matter how far<BR/>Couldn’t be much more from the heart<BR/>Forever trusting who we are<BR/>No, nothing else matters<BR/><BR/>James Hetfield of Metallica (from Nothing Else Matters)<BR/><BR/>Forever trusting who we are, is not the best place to stand. It’s a tragic, though romantic, portrait of human love - where human love, eros, is raised to the divine and any human act deemed “loving” is then made divine. These words in the end is a type of narcissism, a self-love - where nothing else matters (the author cannot even remember why he wrote the song for a former girlfriend). But that is not the love that Jesus took with Him to the cross. These are the words of self-possessed Romeo and Juliet, who’s idolatry for one another destroyed them. And what do the words of Katharine Jefferts Schori have for such romantic, even narcissistic idolatry? Affirmation!<BR/><BR/>We don’t need romanticism, we need reality, the reality of the Gospel of Jesus Christ (and all its messiness) to stand up in a world where buildings fall down.<BR/><BR/>Or we stay silent where nothing else matters.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17490745238430648958noreply@blogger.com