Pensive at Posted Note
This is a poem Tom Nelson wrote and stuck in our bulletin at church. It is really deep and I wanted to share it and get your feedback.
Whodunit
I need someone to blame for this fiasco.
This social degeneration from the 50's onward.
This family, authority, sexuality, the arts, public decency,
the home, education, violence, abortion, etc. Fiasco.
I need someone to blame.
Maybe Protestants and Catholics of the 1600's who killd 25% of Europe's
men in religious wars... that made Europe lose hope in God...
that forced Descartes to forgo the Bible for reason... "I think therefore I am"
...that started this man-centered avalanche
Maybe some empirical Deist who replaced God with Natural Law.
Voltaire! "Liberty, unity, fraternity" ...bloodbath!
or Kant, Hegel, or Nietzsche...
"We cannot know absolutely"
"God is the Spirit of the universe working out his mind in history"
"God is dead"
Plunged into Atheism, Communism, Nazism
...World Wars...
or maybe Darwin
Brought Atheism to the common man
man into the jungle
or Freud... who took away Responsibility
made "will" just a part of our iceberg
or Skinner or Rogers who relativized morals
or Bultmann who "demythologized" scripture and sent heaven crashing to earth
or Sartre who godfathered the 60's and relativized truth
or the Beatniks who took "man oriented subjectivism" into literature
or Jaskon Pollack who took it into art
or Picasso who broke with the real world
or Cage and music
or Hugh Hefner and morals
or Timothy Leary and drugs
or The Maharishi who dressed up pantheism
or The Beatles who popularized it
or maybe Hollywood who marketed and trafficked error
or whowever made The Faith mere emotional excess
or mere entertainment
or a means to money
and removed God as a viable hope
Whoever it was-
somebody cast a civilization onto the seas
someone left a country adrift
quenched the light of the divine image
Removed the boundaries of right and wrong
Blinded us to decency
Dulled the standard of the arts
Sawed the branch on which we sat... I need someone to blame
Some serpent, some dragon, some roaring lion.
9 Comments:
wow. that is deep. i had forgotten that tom wrote poetry. i love all his references to world religions and thought patterns and "philosophers."
i remember this one, it stuck in my mind
Oh and Jes, he published a collection of poems, it is HUGE and hard back and about $35 i think
Yeah, most of them go over my head, or at least part of them do. I do remember this one though.
Did you get yours signed by Tommy Eddo? One of these days I want him to sign our Problem of Life with God book. We love that one.
I have the book of poetry, it rocks, it's my favorite thing he has ever done because you get to really see the softer side of Tom.
I have never had him sign anything, I guess since I've known him since the 8th grade having him sign the book has never been that big of a deal to me.
I hope that doesn't come across as braggy, people now days are sure quick to call me out if they think I am name droppin' - but I don't need to name drop to impress people, I can handle that on my own! (wink).
All i can say is that you BETTER congratulate me!!
Obviously, because he gave you props the other day. So did Penny W. I talked to her on Monday and she said to tell you hi. We were talking about the banquet coming up and I mentioned that you and K-T were coming. She said to tell you both "hi!"
That's some good stuff there but... the question he is asking is answered by the question he is asking.
No one is to blame but ourselves... you, me, him, the guy standing at the water cooler. We look outwards for blame but look inwards for truth, it should be the other way round.
Since it all began, man has been struggling to find his way back to God and because we "see through a glass darkly" we often get lost.
Our responsibility is to stand up in the dark and ask where to go.
Sermon over :)
Eddo, i loved that poem from when i first saw it. I think he is right on from a philosophers stand point. ok ok, now for something I have been studying lately... I present you... My rant:
It is funny, lately i have been thinking about the ungodly art that is growing popular. And i am not talking about porn or obscene things, though those are ungodly as well. I am talking about BAD art. I love how Tom points out, in less words, how abstract art is one of those things that have lowered such standards of beauty. Therefore, allowing man to remain on their throne with no higher measure of quality than their own opinion. You notice Tom's criticism of this when he mentions Picasso and Pollack. There was something godly about art because of the design put into it. You originally have a thought and you make that thought real on canvas. The beauty is in the design. The design gives purpose... the purpose gives meaning. Catch my drift?! Abstractions create meaninglessness. Interestingly enough, this could be applied many facets of life.
Ok... rant over.
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