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Saturday, September 15, 2007

The Theological Implications of Doris Day QUESTION


My racquetball buddies and I were in the locker room, and someone said, innocently, "Que sera, sera." Somehow, this led to some great theological/philosophical debate. One person suggested that the line of "whatever will be, will be" was a position of those Christians who believe that "everything is fixed, and you can't change it", while another opined that it was antithetical to the Christian tradition, because God is an active God. The fatalism of Nietzsche was invoked in the conversation, as were the impersonal gods of the ancient Greeks.

So, a simple question, and a more complex one. Please respond to either, or both:

1. What other purely popular songs suggest theological or philosophical meanings to you, and in what way?
Example: "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin may evoke the "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin" of Matthew 6:28.
Example: "The Word" by the Beatles. John 1:1, "the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Lennon/McCartney, "Now I've got it, the word is good." The song also notes "That the word is just the way"; John 14:6, Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life." Note also, John 1:1 and the first verse in the song start, "in the beginning."

2. To what theology/philosophy do you think Que Sera, Sera belong? Does it belong to yours?
***
Anyone else, when they hear his name, sing "Dave Petraeus, Dave Petraus" to the tune of "Doctor Zaius" from the Simpsons? I thought not.
"The general came to shed some light
On why we needed to keep the fight."
Of course, you can color the couplet to your personal political preferences.

ROG

3 comments:

Uthaclena said...

Que Sera, Sera is eminently Taoist, evoking 'wu wei,' the 'Watercourse Way.' Living in the moment, going with the natural flow, "Don't push the river, it moves by itself."

Unknown said...

I don't know the Doctor Zaius song, but now you've got me going:

Dave Petraeus - Dave Petraeus
Dave Petraeus.
Dave Petraeus - Dave Petraeus
Dave Petraeus.
Dave Petraeus - Dave Petraeus
Rock Me Dave Petraeus.
(Come on and rock me Dave Petraeus)

-- Phil at the Archer Pelican (via TheCroneReport)

Greg said...

Doctor Zaius, of course, is a parody of "Rock Me, Amadeus," by the late, great Falco. The Daily Show did a nice job with it this past week, with "Iraq Me, Dave Petraeus."