King and a Kingdom by Derek Webbwho's your brother, who's your sister
you just walked passed him
I think you missed her
as we're all migrating to the place where our father lives
'cause we married in to a family of immigrants
my first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man
my first allegiance is not to democracy or blood
it's to a king & a kingdom
there are two great lies that I’ve heard:
“the day you eat of the fruit of that tree, you will not surely die”
and that Jesus Christ was a white, middle-class republican
and if you wanna be saved you have to learn to be like Him
but nothing unifies like a common enemy
and we’ve got one, sure as hell
but he may be living in your house
he may be raising up your kids
he may be sleeping with your wife
oh no, he may not look like you think
3 comments:
is it wrong to be a white, middle class Republican? or is it possible that assumptions/stereotypes are made about them as well as other 'kinds' of people?
Anonymous - no, not at all. And you are right, stereotypes are made about all types of people. However, I think what Derek Webb's lyrics are getting at is that we in the U.S. have created a Jesus that is nowhere close to the true historical Jesus, and to take it one step further, we have equated Christianity with Republican. We are so wrapped up with culture wars and the "moral majority" that we forget that Jesus didn't call us to fight the culture, he called us to be set apart from culture.
I was a young adult in the 80's when the Moral Majority was a real movement. While there are remnants of the movement alive today, as a whole, it no longer exists. Certainly there are some unfortunate misconceptions and ideas left over from that era. However, many charitable ideals and organizations are in existence today as a result; crisis pregnancy centers, Christian parents adopting and providing foster care for needy children and the Christian education movement.
As an aside, I think that a good number of assumed "white, middle class Republicans" more typically vote Libertarian these days, given the opportunity.
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