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Episode Synopsis
Send us a textWORDS, SWALESMUSIC SAYBURN 'HORIZON'There is a certain kind of religion,An opium for the masses.It,Numbs,DistractsAnd anaesthetises us from the pain of the world,Into a heavenly world of spiritualising irrelevance.There is a certain kind of religion,An opium for the masses,It Supports,Benefits.And acts as chaplain to the status quo,Supporting the structures and systems that reap destruction.There is another kind of religion,A hope for the nations,It,Awakens,Summons,And calls us into the pain of the world.Into a world of Christlike justice.There is another kind of religion,A hope for the nations,It Challenges,Confronts,And rebels against the status quo.And offers a conspiracy of compassion that leads towards human flourishing. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this:to visit orphans, and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the structures and systems of domination. (James 1:12).
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