aillarionov | Holly Near. I ain't afraid

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HOLLY NEAR I AIN'T AFRAID LYRICS
I ain't afraid of your Yahweh
I ain't afraid of your Allah
I ain't afraid of your Jesus
I'm afraid of what you do in the name of your God

I ain't afraid of your churches
I ain't afraid of your temples
I ain't afraid of your praying
I'm afraid of what you do in the name of your God

Rise up to your higher power
Free up from fear, it will devour you
Watch out for the ego of the hour
The ones who say they know it
Are the ones who will impose it on you

I ain't afraid of your Yahweh
I ain't afraid of your Allah
I ain't afraid of your Jesus
I'm afraid of what you do in the name of your God

I ain't afraid of your churches
I ain't afraid of your temples
I ain't afraid of your praying
I'm afraid of what you do in the name of your God

Rise up, and see /find/ know/ hear a higher story
Free up from the gods of war and glory
Watch out for the threats of purgatory
The spirit of the wind won't make a killing off of sin and satan

I ain't afraid of your Bible
I ain't afraid of your Torah
I ain't afraid of your Koran
Dont let the letter of the law
Obsure the spirit of the your love--it's killing us

I ain't afraid of your Yahweh
I ain't afraid of your Allah
I ain't afraid of your Jesus
I'm afraid of what you do in the name of your God

I ain't afraid of your churches
I ain't afraid of your temples
I ain't afraid of your praying
I'm afraid of what you do in the name of your God

I ain't afraid of your money
I ain't afraid of your culture
I ain't afraid of your choices
I'm afraid of what you do in the name of your God

I ain't afraid of your Sunday
I ain't afraid of your spirit
I ain't afraid of your teachers
I'm afraid of what you do in the name of your God

I ain't afraid of your Sabbath
I ain't afraid of your borders
I ain't afraid of your dances
I'm afraid of what you do in the name of your God

I ain't afraid of your children
I ain't afraid of your music
I ain't afraid of your stories
I'm afraid of what you do in the name of your God

I ain't afraid of your Yahweh
I ain't afraid of your Allah
I ain't afraid of your Jesus
I'm afraid of what you do in the name of your God

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We must recognize the vital importance of genre, setting, literary style, and so on, and the all-important differences these things make to how we read the relevant texts. Still more important, we must understand the crucial distinction between the Old and the New Testaments, why this distinction is there, and what it means and does not mean. If this is ignored, we run once more into the sterile debate between people who say, ‘The Bible says …’ and those who answer, ‘Yes, and the Bible also says you should stone adulterers, and that you shouldn’t wear clothes made of two types of cloth.’ We urgently need to get past this unnecessary roadblock and on to more serious engagement.

The Bible itself offers a model for its own reading, which involves knowing where we are within the overall drama and what is appropriate within each act. The acts are: creation, ‘fall’, Israel, Jesus, and the church; they constitute the differentiated stages in the divine drama which scripture itself offers.

Whether or not one adopts this particular scheme of interpretation, it is vital that we understand scripture, and our relation to it, in terms of some kind of overarching narrative which makes sense of the texts. We cannot reduce scripture to a set of ‘timeless truths’ on the one hand, or to being merely the fuel for devotion on the other, without being deeply disloyal, at a structural level, to scripture itself. We must act in the appropriate manner for this moment in the story; this will be in direct continuity with the previous acts (we are not free to jump suddenly to another narrative, a different play altogether), but such continuity also implies discontinuity, a moment where genuinely new things can and do happen. We must be ferociously loyal to what has gone before and cheerfully open about what must come next. Not all cases are easy; some are actually very difficult, as we see with Paul’s wrestlings over questions of the Jewish law; but there is usually a clue.

To live in the fifth act is thus to presuppose all of the above, and to be conscious of living as the people through whom the narrative in question is now moving towards its final destination. When we arrive there, just as there will be no Temple, no sacraments, and even, dare we say, no prayer of the kind we know at present—because all will be swallowed up in the immediate presence and love of God—so there will be no need any more to read scripture, not because it is irrelevant but because it turns out to be the map to a destination we have now reached.

The New Testament offers us glimpses of where the story is to end: not with us ‘going to heaven’, as in many hymns and prayers, but with new creation. Our task is to discover, through the Spirit and prayer, the appropriate ways of improvising the script between the foundation events and charter on the one hand and the complete coming of the kingdom on the other. Once we grasp this framework, other things begin to fall into place.

(N.T. Wright, 'Scripture and the Authority of God', selected fragments)

Holly Near. I ain't afraid

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