Monday, 12 November 2012

I'm a man on a musical mission


I’m trying to educate Nathan about The Beatles. This is the result of a conversation yesterday that left me frankly flabbergasted. 
He was telling me about a new member of the congregation at his church. He recently moved to the area and they don’t know much about him but Nathan is convinced he must be a decent bloke “because he’s called Peter”
I said “What difference does that make?”
He said “St Peter is one of the most righteous men in history. Remember your Bible, Rory? Peter was one of the disciples, and was just and true.”
Suppressing all my anti-religion feelings to concentrate on the matter in hand I said “Well that doesn’t mean anything. Just because they’ve got the same name doesn’t mean they’ll be the same kind of person. Things with the same name can be completely different. Look at the name ‘revolver’ - it’s an absolutely brilliant album but an absolutely terrible film.”
Nathan stared at me blankly.
I said “Please tell me you know that there’s an album called ‘revolver’?”
He didn’t.
But he will by the end of this week.
We may have our different views on things, and I may have to bite my tongue whenever he starts to talk about Jesus, but I’ll be damned before I’ll let him get through life without The Beatles…..

RC 12-11-12

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