"I'm with you. I'm with you. Don't all good things come from God? If my music makes people happy, doesn't that prove that I'm on God's side? I'm not replacing God in people's hearts. I'm complementing his place there by expressing my happiness and joy of living by making music."
"But your music praises temporal pleasures over eternal ones."
"'Temporal,' I assume you mean, uh, physical pleasures, Mr. Peter, sir. You see, physical, earthly love is just a metaphor for God's eternal love, sir. Real love has nothing to do with lust. Real love is a meeting of the souls and God dwells in that intersection. 1+1 really does make 1, sir. God gave us these bodies and they are his temples. Aren't we to enjoy what he has given us in his image? Wouldn't it be sinful, sir, to not appreciate fully these bodies that God gave us?"
"The body is a vessel for the soul, Mr. Holly. You young men have a capacity for twisting God's dictates toward your own ends. A body is not a license hedonism. You used condoms, Mr. Holly."
Buddy reddens and fights back an embarrassed grin. He adjusts his broken glasses for the 50th time.
"You may take your glasses off now, Mr. Holly. All vision is 20/20 up here."
"Oh, thanks, Mr. Peter. I know I wasn't perfect, sir. Lust is a terrible thing, sir. Why must we have these awful longings, sir? Why did God give us this temptation and make it so pleasant to succumb to it, sir?"
"God doesn't give you temptation. God allows you free will. He Who Dwells Below creates the temptation. Sin feels good, son. If it didn't, there wouldn't be any temptation. This is the essence of free will. The wrong choice must appear pleasant or there wouldn't be any choice, would there? That is why your music is so dangerous."
"I never thought of it that way, sir. I didn't realize that life is that dangerous. It's really all about decisions, isn't it? I still think that my music is an expression of God in Man. I can't believe that this need, this overwhelming need within my entire being to make music can have come from the Devil. It had to have come from God. Listen to one of my songs, please sir."
Article comments
1 - Jim Carruthers
C'mon, couldn't Buddy at least pull out the Little Richard card. He's an ordained crazy son of Jebus, and in his book "Quasar of Rock" said Buddy was blessed with bounty from the lord.
2 - Eric Olsen
hey, it was a dream, I'm just the stenographer