“[F]aith begins
precisely where thinking leaves off.”
- Søren Kierkegaard
Does the possibility of a
teleological suspension
of the ethical scare the living
bejesus out of you?
Does that dark feeling creep in
whenever you begin
to entertain this twisted notion
in your brain?
Could there ever be a way that
Abraham could slay
his own beloved son, and God
would cry out, “Hip, hip, hooray!”
G F C G / C G F G C -
In case you get to thinking that
this is just an abstraction,
that this kind of thing could
never happen, just open your eyes it happens every day.
Suicide bombers claiming Allah,
cruise missiles guided by the dollar,
killing innocent civilians.
Ethics is suspended for unseen ends.
If faith begins right where
thinking leaves off
then the coin has been tossed,
but I'm choosing neith heads nor tails.
This blind faith in a master
whether it be
God or country just leads to
utter absurdity.
If your master would have you
slaughter on a whim,
you can take him, but I'll leave
him. Give me hell in exchange for peace of mind.
Though I try to keep above it
all, I've come to realize
complacency is compliance; my
hands are washed in the blood of my silence.
So I just want to say before it's
too late,
“Can't we stop all this madness
and learn to just let each other be?”
If I'm gonna have faith in
anything at all,
here's how it's gonna be: I'm
putting my faith in you and me.