I know I’m 15 years too late… sigh….   better late then never, right?

It’s kind of funny, actually.

I remember when my cousin first introduced me to Nirvana and grunge music – yet, being during my rebellion stage, I decided to listen to country music. Sad isn’t it?

Now, many years later, I’m finally getting into the whole grunge thing. Well… maybe…. I guess you can say that I’m dipping my toe into the grunge waters. Yeah – that’s more like it. Next thing you know I’ll be looking online at websites like Lychee the Label to find my grunge ‘look’.

Hmm… what did I start off to say? OH – I remember!

Greenday – they are one of the very few grunge bands who made the transition to the main stream (of course, some folks say they betrayed their roots to do so….).

I have been listening to Greenday’s International Superhits! album and have fallen in love with two of their songs: Warning and Minority.

Both songs deal with the rebelling against the rules and authority of the society. Warning does this by promoting the view of questioning everything:[@more@]

Is it the cop, or am I the one thats really dangerous?
Sanitation, expiration date, question everything.
Or shut up and be a victim of authority

Minority on the other hand glorifies the lifestyle of the minority in contrasts to the majority:

Stepped out of the line
Like a sheep runs from the herd
Marching out of time
To my own beat now
The only way I know

To me – these songs are full of emotions and feelings that go beyond railing against society and the evils of our government. They are a reflection of…well… my heart and my feelings.

The more I learn about God and the Bible, the more I question the worldview I was raised under and the theological mindset promoted. It’s not that this mindset is wrong per say or is heretical…is just that God is bigger.

A lot of people think that questioning God or the church is wrong and should be stopped…yet, God told Isaiah to come and reason with Him. God is big enough to handle our questions – and the church…..well, didn’t the prophets of old question the status quo?

If we stop questioning “why” we do things, then we have become robots – obeying an organization just because.

It is in this vein that I question the purely black and white stances of the “religious right” and their political ambitions:

Yes – a lot of times the minority is wrong (cults groups and the like). Yet….yet… in a lot of ways, the church is called to be the minority. We know that we live in an age of darkness ruled by the prince of darkness….  We are to be a light to the world – a bright minority that outshines the majority.

One light, one mind
Flashing in the dark
Blinded by the silence of a thousand broken hearts