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Systematic Platypus

"I can't stand those sort of hymns. They're too lilting and seem like they're always folding back on themselves. I like the ones that have more force to them: da,da,da,da,dum!' You know, something by Wesley." The Integrated Evangelical

Post-Something Platypus

A SONG The world's all for burning while The movie's two-hour play, Squelches some half-earnest yearning 'bout a million miles away. We rage against the machine with Three-minute anthems in the street, Until a Starbucks Latte Makes us rest our unused feet. "Our God is very great!" calls the voice from out the wilderness. "Our God is very great!" cries the voice from out the storm. Is there no balm in Gilead, We ask with eyes wide closed. And beat our raw backs bloody, before the mirror: primp and pose; Knowing in some vague tomorrow, There's a place were it seems, Ten Million Aborted fetuses Keep all our "might-have-been's." "Our God is very great!" calls the voice from out the wilderness. "Our God is very great!" cries the voice from out the storm. Excuse me, because my mind Is too broken to make reply, It doesn't really matter since I'm never gonna die. Death's just a dumb commercial, When you've go

Strange Platypus(es) Part VIII

And I saw in my dream that I now stood in a great and open space surrounded by pinnacles of crumbling stone. As my eyes became accustomed to the twilight, I saw the pinnacles were great ruins of masonry, five of them, and in between were strewn the colossal wreck that had once made them a united whole. I asked the one who stood with me, who was at once very near and very far, and whose height one minute soared to the heavens, and the next minute was a few scant inches above my own what it meant, and who had broken down this once mighty building. And he answered with a voice like a storm in the wasteland: "It was once a mighty church, but four men came and broke it down with hammers, each intending to rebuild it, greater and truer than before, but a fifth came in with many followers and stole the fallen stones and scattered others so that no one was able to rebuild it. And the names of the four men are these: Ignatius, Martin, Desiderius, and John. The fifth man who came wit