they’ll buy up all your rights and all your wrongs

Looking for the words to one of my all-time favorite songs, I am amused to find most of it at the bottom of this page: “The Discipleship of Marriage, Part 3 – ChristianSinglesDating.com Article”. The opening/closing stanza is omitted, presumably because it frames the song as a letter to the lover being dumped (“when you waken I’ll be gone”). But much of what remains can be read as an attack on organized religion:

. . . They’ll try to stop you singing in the middle of your song
for they do not want you free, and they will not make you strong . . . .
[They’ll] tell you that the darkness is a blessing in disguise,
for you never have to notice if you’re sighted or you’re blind;
and they’ll do their best to keep you from the light.

Well okay, I suppose Jack Chick feels the same way about evilutionists.

(The song: “From me to you” was sung by Janis Ian:, but is out of place in a woman’s mouth, Woman was not designed to lead; 1Pet.3:1-7)

Where did she say anything about leading?

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