"I wish you'd live the words, that you put in my mouth". I heard these word last night for the first time in a song that a disenfranchised Evangelical sang in a song he wrote to the 81% of white evangelicals, who betrayed their spiritual heritage in a compromise with truth and integrity to support Donald J. Trump.
Many Christians were grieved by that abandonment of everything they had always taught the flock to believe in. For me personally, this phrase alone, captured my own disillusionment with them. I looked to them to teach me the way to Truth, they gave me the words of Love from scripture, they put those words in my mouth, as the song goes. Yet, they bitterly betrayed that hope they inspired from those words, in their actions and deeds.
I have had bitterness over this over the years, and I express that here, particularly to those I see as guilty of this betrayal, this "hypocrisy" as I attack it with. I'm angry about it. You tell truth, yet you betray what you claim to believe in. Do you actually believe it, or do you just lie? Another beautiful line from his song, "You said to love the lost. I'm trying to love you now."
I am conflicted over my past, where I reached out for the divine, hoping for you to be my guide. You put words in my mouth, of love, truth, and justice. You inspired me. Yet, you betray everything you stood for. Please "come home," this beautifully, impassioned, and Truth-filled song inspires. Take your own medicine you preach. "I wish you'd live the words, that you put in my mouth". Amen.
I have a feeling a large number of RF members can feel this, as I did. It sucks to lose faith in something you thought held Truth.
Many Christians were grieved by that abandonment of everything they had always taught the flock to believe in. For me personally, this phrase alone, captured my own disillusionment with them. I looked to them to teach me the way to Truth, they gave me the words of Love from scripture, they put those words in my mouth, as the song goes. Yet, they bitterly betrayed that hope they inspired from those words, in their actions and deeds.
I have had bitterness over this over the years, and I express that here, particularly to those I see as guilty of this betrayal, this "hypocrisy" as I attack it with. I'm angry about it. You tell truth, yet you betray what you claim to believe in. Do you actually believe it, or do you just lie? Another beautiful line from his song, "You said to love the lost. I'm trying to love you now."
I am conflicted over my past, where I reached out for the divine, hoping for you to be my guide. You put words in my mouth, of love, truth, and justice. You inspired me. Yet, you betray everything you stood for. Please "come home," this beautifully, impassioned, and Truth-filled song inspires. Take your own medicine you preach. "I wish you'd live the words, that you put in my mouth". Amen.
I have a feeling a large number of RF members can feel this, as I did. It sucks to lose faith in something you thought held Truth.