Don’t listen to verbswish poetry!

dont read verbswish poetry!until you’ve watched this. What your about to watch is spoken word, but perhaps not as your use to hearing it. This is probably the best introduction to one of my particular fields - matters of religous truth and sprituality, and to properly appreciate what it is were trying to do with a lot of poems, you need to have watched the video first. It’s kind of a necessary qualifier. It’s about an hour long, and is done by Greg Koukl, one of my mentors. I suggest you find an hour when no-one will bother you, put the kettle on and watch/listen carefully.

Just as an opening illustration, a couple of years back  I asked a well known poet (who I won’t name) the question, “Is it wrong to torture babies for fun?”,  for clarity I added “I want to know whether the act itself is wrong, objectively so; whether at any time, anywhere, under any circumstances it could  possibly be morally acceptable to torture babies for the pleasure it brings you?” and the poet responded with a chilling, “it depends”. I am not kidding you, this actually happened, it was a question borrowed from Greg who will explain in the video why the poet gave this disturbing response.

When you’ve watched, please come back and leave your comments and thoughts here - all viewpoints welcome:)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9219638402717265149&q=greg+koukl&hl=en

March 8, 2008 | Filed Under announcement

 

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