A Christian Liberal is NOT an oxymoron.

Posted by XT on June 24th, 2008 in US News

I’m a day or two late on this, but I couldn’t figure out what I should say. I should have known that the Maestro would have already said it:

There was an illustration on the panel that showed a triptych. On the left panel, there were these names of artistic pursuits. There were poets, painter, composer. And one of them was jester. I was only interested in the jester. What he said about each of these, he said these individuals on the left hand side can transcend the panels of the triptych by creative growth.

The jester makes jokes, he’s funny, he makes fun, he ridicules. But if his ridicules are based on sound ideas and thinking, then he can proceed to the second panel, which is the thinker—he called it the philosopher. The jester becomes the philosopher, and if he does these things with dazzling language that we marvel at, then he becomes a poet too. Then the jester can be a thinking jester who thinks poetically.

Some people make us smirk. Some make us laugh. Some, and the list is very, very short, alter our outlook because they change who we are. George Carlin was such a poet, philosopher, and jester.

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