A solo performance critiquing how modern churches have become "fast-food" worship services divorced from tradition and the poor. The speaker condemns congregations that claim to love the needy while keeping them behind gated walls, and warns against using religious language to justify war and partisan politics. He urges listeners to keep their eyes on Jesus, who lived among the poor, not on Fox News or political factions.
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We're selfish, but it's going on today. It says to sing a new song, but we'll stick with the old. And when thinning luck will drive the kids away. And younger people do it too, no memory for the past. We treat the older members like they already are past. We segregate the worship, saying, "Have it your own way." We've turned the church into a fast food chain. And somehow democracy stuck in the house of God. And we've given his authority unto the common mob. If you don't like the liturgy, we'll put it to a vote. Kingdom come and let our will be done. Republicans and Democrats, Tea Party and the Green. None of us have got it right and none of us are clean. Right or wrong, left, right, and some are in between. So keep your eyes upon the Nazarene. Jesus was a Nazarene who lived among the poor. I wonder if we'd let him in if he came to our door. We don't help the poor because they might buy alcohol. We pray for them behind our gated walls. And I'm not throwing stones, I'm just trying to tell the truth. And the truth is everybody, some believers are confused. I'm getting pretty nervous. I get nervous when they talk about Fox News, like it was the final word of God. Republicans and Democrats, Tea Parties and the Greens, none of us have got it right and none of us are clean. Right and wrong and left ain't right and some are in between, so keep your eyes upon the land stream. If God damns a person, it's the worst curse of all, but I think we damn ourselves It becomes when we justify our wars, when his precious blood is used as the very best excuse to shed precious blood of someone else.
