Personality Cult
10/28/2005 19:21 Filed in: Music
The music of philosophy...
I've been corresponding with Jason Snyder about an upcoming "Philosophy and Christian Thought" class I'll be teaching at Indiana Wesleyan University in February. This morning, he sent me a philosophically inspired song he's co-written, and I asked him for permission to share it with you. Enjoy.
"Personality Cult"
by Steve Helt and Jason Snyder
i was reading one day from the words of pascal
that men without gods would become gods themselves
well i look all around me and see that it's true
that man is engaged in a selfish pursuit
one half of mankind has declared there's no God
while the rest have all bought into humanist fraud
in sin we let go of the rules absolute
the Church lets it happen, its message dilute
it's a cult of personality
atheism a reality
won't you join the personality cult
you are fond of the writing that "God is dead"
but if you look closer that is not what he said
for Neitzche's intent was that we just don't care
we live and we die as if He isn't there
augustine warned of the middle class thing
that real religion is not what it seems
we cover our bases, half answer the call
but half of a Master is no Lord at all
it's a cult of personality
middle class religiosity
won't you join the personality cult
remember the moral of the story of job
our goodness or badness does not give us hope
for every salvation we must look to the Son
i think you'll find lots of saving to be done
I've been corresponding with Jason Snyder about an upcoming "Philosophy and Christian Thought" class I'll be teaching at Indiana Wesleyan University in February. This morning, he sent me a philosophically inspired song he's co-written, and I asked him for permission to share it with you. Enjoy.
"Personality Cult"
by Steve Helt and Jason Snyder
i was reading one day from the words of pascal
that men without gods would become gods themselves
well i look all around me and see that it's true
that man is engaged in a selfish pursuit
one half of mankind has declared there's no God
while the rest have all bought into humanist fraud
in sin we let go of the rules absolute
the Church lets it happen, its message dilute
it's a cult of personality
atheism a reality
won't you join the personality cult
you are fond of the writing that "God is dead"
but if you look closer that is not what he said
for Neitzche's intent was that we just don't care
we live and we die as if He isn't there
augustine warned of the middle class thing
that real religion is not what it seems
we cover our bases, half answer the call
but half of a Master is no Lord at all
it's a cult of personality
middle class religiosity
won't you join the personality cult
remember the moral of the story of job
our goodness or badness does not give us hope
for every salvation we must look to the Son
i think you'll find lots of saving to be done