Through rain and snow she’ll be there
\nShe doesn’t mind humiliation
\nThe more she has to go through
\nThe greater her claim
\nTo martyrdom
\nPassers-by taunting her brimstone oration
\nSaint Sarah
\nStands
\nAlone
\nWith a book in her hand
\nAnd a voice in her head
\nShe knows she must warn the people
\nOf the fate
\nThat awaits them
\nAfter they’re dead<\/p>\n
Not through sympathy
\nNot through empathy
\nNot through sisterly concern
\nDoes she spend her days
\nShouting at people to change their ways
\nShe’s righteous<\/p>\n
Every religion begins with persecution
\nDeep down she longs for the ridicule
\nThat helps stake her claim
\nTo holiness
\nShe’s not a cult, she’s a messenger
\nSaint Sarah
\nStands
\nAlone
\nWith a book in her hand
\nAnd a voice in her head
\nShe keeps herself going smiling over
\nThe fate
\nThat awaits them
\nAfter
\nThey’re
\nDead.<\/p>\n
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Inspired by a street preacher who used to ply her trade in the centre of Leeds – watching her as she bellowed at the passing crowds who would heckle and laugh at her, I began to suspect that enduring abuse from the heathen masses was actually closer to the point of the exercise than convincing people to convert to her religion or helping them in any way.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n From my\u00a0 own spiritual journey, I’ve noticed approaches to religion (and secular philosophy for that matter) tend be about either opening yourself up to the enormity of creation or closing down the universe to something that better fits your own ideas.\u00a0 I’m also uncomfortably aware that Saint Sarah’s self righteous wannabe martyrdom is something we’re all guilty of sometimes.\u00a0 I’m probably guilty of it right now.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [soundcloud url=”https:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/60111631″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” \/] Through rain and snow she’ll be there She doesn’t mind humiliation The more she has to go through The greater her claim To martyrdom Passers-by taunting her brimstone oration Saint Sarah Stands Alone With a book in her hand And a voice in her head She knows she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics","category-the-holodeck-will-be-societys-last-invention-2005"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}