Rich Mullins - Intro To Higher Education And The Book Of Love lyrics

What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be human? I cannot

Help but suspect that at one time in the history of thinking that people

Believed that it meant that we were spiritual and that we could make

Choices and were capable of aspiring to higher ideals... like maybe

Loyalty or maybe faith... or maybe even love. But now we told by people

Who think they know, that we vary from amoeba only in the complexity of

Our makeup and not in what we essentially are. They would have us think

As Dysart said that we are forever bound up in certain genetic reigns -

That we are merely products of the way things are and not free - not

Free to be the people who make them that way. They would have us see

Ourselves as products so that we could believe that we were something to

Be made - something to be used and then something to be disposed of.

Used in their wars - used for their gains and then set aside when we get

In their way. Well, who are they? They are the few who sit at the top of

The heap - dung heap though it is - and who say it is better to reign in

Hell than to serve in Heaven. Well, I do not know that we can have a

Heaven here on earth, but I am sure we need not have a Hell either. What

Does it mean to be human? I cannot help but believe that it means we are

Spiritual - that we are responsible and that we are free - that we are

Responsible to be free.