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Whew! Sporadic blogging lately. My apologies to those of you who've visited hoping looking for new stuff. Hopefully you'll find today's ideas intriguing.
I seem to be on a spate of talking about things that I've presented here before, but it's been a while on this one. Remember how The Wonderful World of Disney used to come on TV on Sunday nights, when all good folks should have been at church? Conspiracy or just regular ol' programming?
When posting "What Makes a Bad Word Bad?" the other day, I thought about the lyrics to that wonderfully non-potentially-offensive-to-anyone song, "What Made the Red Man Red?" from Disney's Peter Pan, and specifically remembered this part:
Let's go back a million years
To the very first Injun prince*
Huh? A million years? So that's when Native Americans began to populate our soil? Is this Disney's subtle way of instilling old-earth (or evolutionary, though the two are not necessarily intertwined) thoughts in children? (Actually, even by the most hardcore evolutionist's standards, that's too long ago for there to have been any "Injun princes.")
Do you think that we Christians are too paranoid that the world is out to get us? Is paranoia justified, or would you call it realism?
And hey, what about that part in the Red Man song where it talks bad about mothers-in-law?
In the Injun book it say,
When first brave married squaw,
He gave out with heap big, "Ugh!"
When he saw his mother-in-law.*
What gives? Disney's trying to undermine the family unit!
If the world is, indeed, out to get us, how should we react? By fighting fire with fire? What would Jesus have done? Better yet, what did Jesus do when He was confronted with people calling Him a liar or challenging the things that He taught?
Is this this verse is out of context in such a discussion?
He was oppressed and treated harshly,
yet He never said a word.
He was led like a lamb to the slaughter.
And as a sheep is silent before the shearers,
He did not open his mouth.
- Isaiah 53:7 (NLT)
*"What Made the Red Man Red?" was written by Sammy Cahn and Sammy Fain (odd that they were both named "Sammy," eh?), copyright 1951 Walt Disney Music Company
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2 comments:
There is a fine line between paranoia and realism. If we are overly paranoid or overly realistic, we would just sit in the house and only leave (possibly) when it's time for church.
Why? Because if we are overly paranoid we think that every person we run into is out to get us.
If we are overly realistic, we know this world is evil we'll begin to think there is no hope. So we stop telling others about Jesus.
As Johnny Cash said, we should "walk the line" and use both to our advantage. Let's use our paranoia to keep us a bit realistic (this IS an evil world) and use our realism to keep us just a bit paranoid (or on guard).
Good points leroy. I would add that perhaps people are thinking less about us than we might want to believe...... :)
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