Australian cult: Anyone recognize this?
Date: August 15, 2007 11:38PM
Dear Private Eyes,
I apologize to forever be harking back to the “good old days” (more accurately the “less bad old days”), but is seems to me that we “old-timers” used to actually employ genuine scriptures in defence of the community we had (obviously mistakenly) committed ourselves to……we didn’t simply rely on interminably and incessantly whining about how “shabbily” others chose to treat our “noble and selfless” leader in a lame effort to simply exhaust those who spoke out against him….with the sophistry of one counter-invention of history after another!
…..yet to read Joe’s or Ash’s or Frans’ or (largely any of the JCs) postings of recent years they now have no more depth to their “faith”, than the mindless defence of David at every juncture ….they no longer discuss “issues” (other than where David has authorized “discussion’) as they appear to no longer even have the nounce to defend the scriptures that were purportedly the very reasons why they became involved with the JC’s in the first place…..instead we have the some old tiresome tirades regurgitated again and again, of how Davids’ “rights” are constantly being rudely “infringed” upon……( as Davids’ “rights” are patently the most important thing in the world……for David!!)
(But of course it does strikes one, how much easier it must become for any individual Jesuschristians to defend David when they refuse to acknowledge any need to reference themselves to Christ and his teachings…..doesn’t it!)
In this “light” (…that is, blinkering the “Light of the world” in order to make it more difficult to see just how odious David really is) and with some apologies to Burl Ives, I’ve reworked a couple of verses of one of those old classic numbers that has uplifted many a soul over the years, in order to render it suitable for inclusion as another standard number of the JesusChristians….I’m sure this will prove popular among them…even if they may want to rework it into a “hip-hop” number…..because after all, assuming they choose to continue along the path they are currently travelling, they sooner they forget Christ, why the more often they’ll have to devote to David…!
Apostle David, When I in awesome wonder,
Consider all your words Thy hateful charade;
I see from afar, all that you have plundered,
Young people who, will surely end dismayed.
Then sings my soul, David McKay, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, David McKay, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art!
When through the woods, and forest glades he wanders,
I hear the birds flee swiftly from the trees.
for God looks down, from lofty mountain grandeur
And sees the crook, He will roast by degrees.
Then sings my soul, David McKay, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, David McKay, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art!
(...and so on!……however…… “great” in what true sense I wonder?)