Who will win? They can’t BOTH be right.
It’s leftist art-school 80’s rockers
against the Lutheran theologian hung by Nazis.
They greet – and… there’s the bell !
Don’t help me I can save myself / if I’m incomplete don’t fill the gaps Save me from the people who would save me from myself –
they got muscle for brains…
For reasons that are not mysterious / the weak are sent to the wall They have reservations in heaven / down here they’re not so fashionable
Don’t help me I can save myself / if I‘m incomplete don’t fill the gaps
Save me from the people who would save me from myself –
they got muscle for brains…
For reasons that are not mysterious / morality’s used as a tool
The poor are told to be contented / but in this life they’ve no choice at all
Don’t help me I can save myself / if I’m incomplete don’t fill the gaps
Save me from the people who would save me from myself –
they got muscle for brains…
For reasons that are not mysterious / the weak are sent to the wall
They have reservations in heaven / down here they’re not so fashionable…
Don’t help me I can save myself / if I’m incomplete don’t fill the gaps
Save me from the people who would save me from myself –
they got muscle for brains… Save me from the people who would save me from my sin – they got muscle for brains…
But BONHOEFFER bounces back with some existential punches of his own:
“By ‘mourning’ Jesus, of course, means doing without what the world calls peace and prosperity. He means refusing to be in tune with the world or to accommodate oneself to its standards. Such men mourn for the world, for its guilt, its fate, and its fortune. While the world keeps holiday, they stand aside, and while the world sings, ‘Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,’ they mourn. They see that for all the jollity on board, the ship is beginning to sink. The world dreams of progress, or power and of the future, but the disciples meditate on the end, the last judgement, and the coming of the kingdom. To such heights the world cannot rise. And so the disciples are strangers in the world, unwelcome guests and disturbers of the peace.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer:The Cost of Discipleship, Ch. 6: The Beatitudes
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