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Published Letters: 2
Where the hell did THAT come from? You know, in the last week I can safely say I've had not the least fleeting image of Sarah Palin dominating anyone. And I suspect I'm not alone.
Which sort of begs the all-too-obvious question: doesn't his analogy indeed say so much more about Gary Kamiya (and those who think it apt) than it does about Sarah Palin and those who aren't terrified of her? I'm just saying.
I followed your link to U2's "Magnificent" and was struck at what seemed to me to be its obvious intent to praise God. Taken in light of the fact that 3/4's of U2 has been proudly out as Christians for more than 20 years, the use of such familiar scriptural imagery and language, so reminiscent of that of many psalms as well as passages in Isaiah, the gospels and Paul's letters, leads me to the conclusion the song is meant as praise to God first and foremost. Yes, I can hear an evocation to listeners perhaps, but it seems more a recognition of bonds of love and kinship as creatures of a loving God.
Surely you recognized the scriptural tone of the language. Reading within just the four corners of the song lyrics it is clearly as much praise to God as paean to audience. You have never seemed to me to be afflicted with the antipathy to Christianity which so many in academe suffer. So did the song truly sound to you more like an embarrassingly over-the-top kiss-up to the customers ("you are magnificent") than ecstatic praise of God?
