Following on from my little catalogue of reasons why people might hate Christians, here's an interesting thought from Jackson Browne . "The Rebel Jesus" was recorded with The Chieftains for a Christmas album. I don't know how much theology Browne knows, but he's managed, by accident or design, to write a fabulous liberation theology Christmas carol. After describing a happy Northern Hemisphere Christmas, he moves on to the person it's all about. Well they call him by 'the Prince of Peace' And they call him by 'the Savior' And they pray to him upon the seas And in every bold endeavor And they fill his churches with their pride and gold While their faith in him increases But they've turned the nature that I worship in From a temple to a robber's den In the words of the rebel Jesus Well we guard our world with locks and guns And we guard our fine possessions And once a year when Christmas comes We give to our relations
'Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp.' - Rachel Carson