This is where it began.

I’ve been socially liberal (at least in contrast to my surroundings) for a while, but I can’t remember ever tracing that philosophical shift to its roots before. I certainly didn’t get it from my parents, or from my communities at the time. I didn’t get it from the books I was reading. You couldn’t squeeze a drop of liberal out of the Contemporary Christian Music[1] I was listening to even if you had industrial equipment.

Well, for the most part, anyways. There’s one line in one song that really poked me in the head when I was about 18: Caedmon’s Call singing This World. The part that says, “And the least of these look like criminals to me, so I leave Christ on the street.”

That might be it. I can’t be sure; my memory is a terribly threadbare fabric. But that’s the first thing I can honestly point to. Maybe it woke me up a little bit, I don’t know. Can’t you see why “this world has held my hand and has led me into intolerance” might do that?

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Posted October 25th, 2007 in main. Tagged: , , .

3 comments:

  1. Roger:

    Call me a stupid, lazy (US) American, but I can’t find the footnote you referenced after CCM.

    October 25th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
  2. daniel:

    Call me a negligent Canadian for not writing one!

    October 26th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
  3. Roger:

    Freaking negligent Canadians.

    October 26th, 2007 at 5:56 pm

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