This is where it began.

daniel on Oct 25th 2007

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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3 Responses to “This is where it began.”

  1. # Rogeron 25 Oct 2007 at 6:11 pm

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

  2. # danielon 26 Oct 2007 at 3:23 pm

    Call me a negligent Canadian for not writing one!

  3. # Rogeron 26 Oct 2007 at 5:56 pm

    Freaking negligent Canadians.