It’s so obvious how many people have made politics their worldview since they’re lacking a biblical one
They interpret EVERYTHING through their political worldview. Humanity, history, art, everything. And they don’t realize how little they understand.
I remember in Ken Burns Country Music documentary, Roseanne Cash made a comment about her father that he would believe two opposite things at once. She used the example that “he was against the war in vietnam, but he would go and sing for the soldiers in vietnam”
The only way you could possibly believe such an absurd statement is if you view everything through a Political Left and Political Right worldview and derive your entire moral set from your chosen party.
Johnny Cash didn’t believe two opposite things. He simply believed human life mattered, so he didn’t want to support what he believed was a needless war. And because human life mattered, he went and tried to offer comfort to those who were affected by the war. This isn’t hard to understand.
A lot of people will point at a lot of things Johnny Cash did over his career to try to paint him as left wing or right wing, depending on who’s talking and which side is trying to “claim” him. The truth about Johnny Cash is that he viewed himself as apolitical. Because the bold actions he took weren’t motivated by politics, they were based on firmly held principles he had from his Christian upbringing. He didn’t take a hard stance against racism because he was “leftwing” or “rightwing,” he took a hard stance because he believed all humans had value. He didn’t play for prisoners because he was trying to virtue signal politics around the prison system, he did so because he believed all humans mattered and deserved a voice. If you cannot understand this about Johnny Cash, you will never EVER understand any of the choices he made throughout his career.
But you cannot understand it because your worldview doesn’t align with Truth so you will never have an understanding of history or humanity or art or science that is actually true.
(yes, yes, very on brand for me to use a country music history example, I know)
after a few moments of thinking, how badly Rosanne Cash understood her father becomes so painfully obvious, because all it takes to understand Johnny Cash's perspective is to reverse the order of things.
That Johnny Cash valued the lives of soldiers, their happiness and well-being, is WHY he was opposed to the war.
It's 'understandable' why she would miss that, of course. So many anti-war activists blame not the generals or politicians who lead us into conflicts, but rather the soldiers who are sent to fight and die. Like all their stances, they blame the finger, rather than look at what it points at. 'If there were no more soldiers, there would be no more war!' is the kind of position that can only come from someone who refuses to consider why the war begins.
