there will be a light

there will be a light.
Ben Harper 'life at the Apollo' with the 'Blind Boys of Alabama'

listening to this song almost makes me cry.
it's late in the night and i had a long day. full of emotions and questions.
there will be a light.
although it is gospel-like religious in a way I can't help loving this song.
Wait, why 'although'?

hm. let me clarify. I think it's fuckin stupid to be anti-religious just because it is so easy to be. I just don't like the church as much. Although I am half American and only half German I was nourished by the secularist good old Europe, and I stand straight in the tradition of those who claim religion to be one of the most privat things ever. That doesn't mean, however, that I am not religious. I have always felt a deep connection to this ' ' yo know! Maybe stronger through nature but also just simply through the love I feel for the people and this planet and all its beings. Somehow, I know, I am risking to sound pathetic or very sentimental or like one of those green animal-protectors or whatever. But I mean it. I think belief and faith and religion in this broader sense then is something I can feel to exist and I can approve of existing. We need the darks side and the light.

Christianity is due to reasons rooted in society most close to me as an institutionalized religion. But to be honest I know too little about it than being able to say anything reasonable about it. I just have the suspicion that church might have given important things to the people and that with all the bad also some good came along. I don't FUCKING approve of any missionary attempts in native tribes of whatever continent though! I just heard that in Nigeria they burn their ancient shrines cuz they say (I mean, the Christianized natives say) that the African Gods kept the people away from the real God.

There will be a light.

This music is so genuine. Gospels were genuine. All good eternal music was/is genuine I think.

Thank you for giving that back to me BeN!

piranha