The outside is clean, but inside...
So I watched the super bowl with friends Sunday night, and felt abashed as the half time show finished up. See, I had mentioned in passing in the sermon in the morning that our culture's decadence shows up in half-time shows. But then, it was a fairly clean show, besides an old shirt-less man jumping around telling me to "gibbitaway." Bruno Mars was new to me, and a great entertainer. I was relieved and pleasantly surprised, and my kids walked in and out, watching and playing with friends.
Then I looked up the lyrics today that I didn't understand while watching.
Wow.
It's amazing that Christians will now tolerate and even appreciate idolatry and reveling in debauchery in word, as long as the image is one of outward decency.
Here are the lyrics to Mars' "Locked out of Heaven."
I took out the oohs and yeahs, for your convenience.
(Parental advisory!)
Never had much faith in love or miracles
Never wanna put my heart on the line
But swimming in your water* is something spiritual
I'm born again every time you spend the night
'Cause your sex takes me to paradise
Yeah, your sex takes me to paradise
And it shows, yeah, yeah, yeah
'Cause you make me feel like I've been locked out of heaven
For too long, for too long
Yeah, you make me feel like I've been locked out of heaven
For too long, for too long
You bring me to my knees, you make me testify
You can make a sinner change his ways
Open up your gates 'cause I can't wait to see the light
And right there is where I wanna stay
'Cause your sex takes me to paradise
Yeah, your sex takes me to paradise
And it shows, yeah, yeah, yeah
'Cause you make me feel like I've been locked out of heaven
For too long, for too long
Yeah, you make me feel like I've been locked out of heaven
For too long, for too long
Can I just stay here?
Spend the rest of my days here?
Can't I just stay here?
Spend the rest of my days here?
'Cause you make me feel like I've been locked out of heaven
For too long, for too long
Yeah, you make me feel like I've been locked out of heaven
For too long, for too long
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