Comments on: Viva la Vida

By: Chris L

Chris L — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:08:58 +0000

I still don’t know how I sound like Arianna Huffington at all to you…

Maybe it’s your accent…

By: Phil Miller

Phil Miller — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:03:21 +0000

RJ,
Trust me, I’m about as far from a Socialist as you can get. I’m really more a right-wing nutjob who thinks the Republican party has bought too much into socialist ideals. I think the less government is involved in things, the better off we are for the most part.

I also don’t think rock stars are going to save us. That doesn’t mean they don’t ever have something insightful to say.

Anyway, Tim got it right. My point was that the church has found itself looking back upon it’s “glory days” of political power, and I for one don’t think it’s a bad thing. Jesus showed us that His Kingdom isn’t about wielding power over people, but rather serving and dying for them.

I still don’t know how I sound like Arianna Huffington at all to you…

By: Tim Reed, Owosso MI

Tim Reed, Owosso MI — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:55:02 +0000

RJ,
I’m afraid you’ve bought into exactly what many of us detest about American Christianity. Politics is domination by force, no matter how the power is broken up (whether its through voting or the bullet, or both). Christ came to serve, not to be served, and as his disciples we should try to do the same.

Contrary to your claims, no one here wants a “socialist paradise”, most of our reactions are a firmly disinterested “meh” to that kind of thing. Allow yourself to be convicted by verses such as Matthew 20.25ff:

25Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. 26Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, 27and whoever wants to be first must be your slave— 28just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

By: RJ

RJ — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:06:01 +0000

I was looking for some thoughtful analysis of the new Coldplay CD, but being one of those evangelicals you frown upon, perhaps my time would have been better spent contemplating what I will do with the lack of power my “side” has. Come on man, I’d expect this kind of crap from Jim Wallis or Arianna Huffington, but not someone professing a true faith in Christ. We are all in this together and your alliance with secularists on the Left might seem hip and cool now when its easy to bash the arbitrarily defined “religious right”, but wait until the Socialistic paradise you think you desire comes to fruition and pastors are being locked up for preaching things like that homosexuality is a sin (like any other, but still a sin) and hell is a real place more people go than Heaven. If you are looking for affirmation of your short-sighted worldview in lyrics from rockstars…..I was going to finish that sentence but realized that is likely exactly where you get your worldview.

Isaiah 5:20- Woe to those who call good evil, and evil good.

By: andy

andy — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:24:08 +0000

wrong thread sorry lol

By: andy

andy — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:23:34 +0000

Its just a personal observation and what do i know anyhow,but to me theres seem’s a shift in some of the threads and some of the comments..

There just seems to be more snide remark to people,for instance your “Again” to Amy just didn’t seem needed (i’m aware thats a two way street)..

It just seems easier to get a consenting nod for an irreverent comment ,then it is to get a graceful reply to a comment from an opposite view, like Amy’s was…

By: mandy

mandy — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:51:05 +0000

I love this album.. Tim, I didn’t know you had listened to it? lost is my favorite song thus far.

By: andy

andy — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:30:38 +0000

Chris comes from a Christian family,i think Chris went to church throughout his childhood to...In fact i think i'm correct in stating his father is a minister.. Theres a questioning tone about Christianity on some other songs of his too.. good overview here

By: nc

nc — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:07:53 +0000

yeah, it’s just there was no place to comment about the recent stand on bloodied ground.

By: Tim Reed, Owosso MI

Tim Reed, Owosso MI — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:07:31 +0000

By the way, this is the song that is on the new Itunes commercial, and, yes I do realize there is some level of irony in Apple using a song about the loss of one’s power in an ad.

They’re in good company with every major movie that was ever made about anti-materialism. I still enjoy ‘em, the irony is just a bonus.