Cool song, but I don't agree with the lyrics, way too simplistic to be taken seriously. In his book "The subjection of women" John Stuart Mill sums up the "power of the gospel" in a much more realistic way;
"It could make thousands, in the prime of life and the height of worldly advantages, shut themselves up in convents to work out their salvation by poverty, fasting, and prayer.
It could send hundreds of thousands across land and sea, Europe and Asia, to give their lives for the deliverance of the Holy Sepulchre.
It could make kings relinquish wives who were the object of their passionate attachment, because the Church declared that they were within the seventh (by our calculation the fourteenth) degree of relationship. All this it did; but it could not make men fight less with one another, nor tyrannize less cruelly over the serfs, and when they were able, over burgesses."
Cool song, but I don't agree with the lyrics, way too simplistic to be taken seriously. In his book "The subjection of women" John Stuart Mill sums up the "power of the gospel" in a much more realistic way;
"It could make thousands, in the prime of life and the height of worldly advantages, shut themselves up in convents to work out their salvation by poverty, fasting, and prayer.
It could send hundreds of thousands across land and sea, Europe and Asia, to give their lives for the deliverance of the Holy Sepulchre.
It could make kings relinquish wives who were the object of their passionate attachment, because the Church declared that they were within the seventh (by our calculation the fourteenth) degree of relationship. All this it did; but it could not make men fight less with one another, nor tyrannize less cruelly over the serfs, and when they were able, over burgesses."
That's the REAL power of the gospel, yeah.
That's the REAL power of the gospel, yeah.