Posted by Kevin Bates on July 8, 2005, 2:09 pm, in reply to "A Startling Comparison Between Kevin Bates and Mr Bush!" --Previous Message--
Thanks Cathy - your comments are always perceptive and truthful. I'm glad I sing from from a different hymn book to our friend George W!!!
Kevin
: I've just been listening to one of your CD's,
: Kevin ("A Journey Remembered") and
: - maybe it's because it's late at night -
: but I was struck by a rather strange
: thought: both you and George W. Bush
: frequently use the words "free"
: and
: "freedom". But rest assured,
: Kevin, in your case
: the words sound much more authentic and
: appealing!
:
: Doesn't Mr Bush realise how many people in
: his own country cannot really be said to be
: "free"? I mean people whose lives
: are hedged in by poverty, violence,
: addiction, general hopelessness?
:
: Also,while I hate to say it, even the Church
: doesn't always allow us the freedom which
: should be at the heart of Christianity. I
: don't just mean the way the Church tries to
: tie us up with rules and regulations, though
: that is obviously part of it. I also mean
: the way Church leaders often don't seem to
: have the same compassion and understanding
: for ordinary people that Jesus had. You'll
: often hear Church leaders say things like
: people today are too selfish, too
: materialistic, etc., etc. The idea that
: people in our society have an easy life is,
: I think, an illusion promoted by the
: advertising industry! Many,if not most,
: people seem to be struggling to provide a
: minimally decent standard of living for
: themselves and their families. Then there
: are people whose lives are burdened by
: loneliness, serious illness, abuse, and so
: on.
:
: I don't think you can have real freedom
: without compassion, without caring about the
: well-being of real people. So, while I
: always cringe when I hear Mr Bush talk about
: "freedom", when I hear it in one
: of Kevin's songs it gives me a feeling of
: hope, a feeling of what Christianity really
: should be about!
:
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