For me at least I feel that Bob Dylan is trying to reason with someone abusing the meaning of deism or atheism and who is spiteful and has made it up that Bob's God and savior is to blame for all the tragedies in man and womankind's history. I feel from Bob's position as though he's trying to point out his humbleness and lack of divine knowledge and he's trying to get this so-called deist or atheist to accept him as not having all the answers and that belief was never grounded in reality as knowledge. Anyway that's my interpretation of these lyrics.
PS: Just so no one confuses what I've typed. There are some really noble Deists and Atheists, just as there are some really noble theists, pantheists, mystics, straight-agnostics and others that I can't remember, peace.
This song is clearly about the fact that people seem to have all the answers and complicate everything! The truth is, Bob knows that most people are walking zombies not realizing who and what they really are...they are basically unaware of their own spirit that is/or should be alive within them. They are dead and they don't even know it, therefore they are angry, and blame God....when in reality it is their own fault, and all they have to do is WAKE UP!!!
This song is clearly about the fact that people seem to have all the answers and complicate everything! The truth is, Bob knows that most people are walking zombies not realizing who and what they really are...they are basically unaware of their own spirit that is/or should be alive within them. They are dead and they don't even know it, therefore they are angry, and blame God....when in reality it is their own fault, and all they have to do is WAKE UP!!!
For me at least I feel that Bob Dylan is trying to reason with someone abusing the meaning of deism or atheism and who is spiteful and has made it up that Bob's God and savior is to blame for all the tragedies in man and womankind's history. I feel from Bob's position as though he's trying to point out his humbleness and lack of divine knowledge and he's trying to get this so-called deist or atheist to accept him as not having all the answers and that belief was never grounded in reality as knowledge. Anyway that's my interpretation of these lyrics.
PS: Just so no one confuses what I've typed. There are some really noble Deists and Atheists, just as there are some really noble theists, pantheists, mystics, straight-agnostics and others that I can't remember, peace.
This song is clearly about the fact that people seem to have all the answers and complicate everything! The truth is, Bob knows that most people are walking zombies not realizing who and what they really are...they are basically unaware of their own spirit that is/or should be alive within them. They are dead and they don't even know it, therefore they are angry, and blame God....when in reality it is their own fault, and all they have to do is WAKE UP!!!
This song is clearly about the fact that people seem to have all the answers and complicate everything! The truth is, Bob knows that most people are walking zombies not realizing who and what they really are...they are basically unaware of their own spirit that is/or should be alive within them. They are dead and they don't even know it, therefore they are angry, and blame God....when in reality it is their own fault, and all they have to do is WAKE UP!!!