Thanks to politics, social media, and a son in Christian school, I now officially know how the world works. The purpose of life—or at least American life—is to choose a favorite Bible verse, ignore context, and call everyone who doesn’t agree stupid.
It’s my turn, b*itches.
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Ecclesiastes 1:2 (NIV)
“Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.”
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My favorite Bible verse is true for several reasons, above and beyond the fact that God inspired it. Here’s proof.
“In the End” by Linkin Park
In this song, lead singer Chester Bennington—who tragically took his own life—states:
I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn’t even matter
“Paranoid Android” by Radiohead
In this classic, frontman Thom Yorke provides a pleasant reminder:
With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
“Todo Inventamos” by Julieta Venegas
Confirming that the verse of interest crosses linguistic barriers, Venegas says:
Dicen que de nada servimos (They say we are useless)
Y que todo es lo mismo (And that everything is the same)
Pronto polvo seremos (Soon we will be dust)
El resto lo inventamos (We invented the rest)
“Dust in the Wind” by Kansas
Kansas, based on simple geography, knew about wind, showing here what they learned:
Same old song
Just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do
Crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
“Hurt” by Johnny Cash
In covering a Nine Inch Nails tune, Cash shares some hard-earned wisdom:
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
“Fourth of July” by Sufjan Stevens
Finally, there’s Stevens, who eschews the subtle and leaves little doubt about the facts:
We’re all gonna die
We’re all gonna die
We’re all gonna die
We’re all gonna die
We’re all gonna die
We’re all gonna die
We’re all gonna die
Note:
Given its obvious truth, this verse shall henceforth be used for the purposes of early-childhood education, discrimination, and legislation.
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