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Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther

by Gary Heidt

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This is the first track in what I hope will be a series of songs located within David Gould's speculative alternative history of the Lutheran Diaspora. Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther commended himself to me as a subject for a song when I learned that my great-great grandmother was related to him. We have a hard time understanding why past peoples were so fervent about religious issues, but what we don't get is how these religious issues are an encoding of life's issues into an abstract empyrean where they can be worked out as pure theory. Everything is present in and proceeds from a person's theology-- now, under the spell of what Husserl calls naive positivism, we just exchanged the figure of Nature of the figure of God and struggle, self-thwarting, against Nature. Atheism is just extreme monotheism with a God who is unconscious. Is religion a technique of mind control? Most assuredly, but even mind control proceeds from the mind. In this song we consider Walther as he takes over the leadership of his flock from the fallen Bishop Stephen. Would he have doubted God in that moment? No. But he would surely have doubted himself, and in the end, that has the same consequence.

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released October 28, 2023

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Gary Heidt Greensboro, North Carolina

Gary Heidt is a founding member of the Perceiver of Sound League, Mammals of Zod and Fist of Kindness. Born in Texas, he lived in NYC for a little under 30 years and now lives in Greensboro. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Heidt

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