every ghost im looking through

Theres a place I know down by the ol’ interstate

Lost in fiction, you’ll find harmony
Switching diction, so no-one can say

Whilst it is possible to derive one’s code of living entirely from the Bible, one should refrain from desiring to do so. Whilst morality must be based upon a framework, this must be subject to experience and context. If we are to use specific rules from the Bible, then we must recognise its experience and context as archaic and antiquated in many respects. It is a morality grounded largely in the past, and must be made relative to the present. By using its rules in their specificity, this cannot occur. If we are to take the Bible as a whole, as a code of ethics, then what are we, for example, to make of its advocated prejudice against women and homosexuals? To utilise its’ commands in contemporary moral life without the intervention of one’s reason: to make it the only source of ethical judgement, is to discard one’s own moral responsibility. What is right and wrong, is ultimately left to the conscience of a text.

Businessmen drink my blood
Like the kids in art school said they would
And I guess I’ll just begin again