[Intro]
Karamazov, Karamazov
[Chorus]
Karamazov
If there’s no God
Does not exist
Everything permitted
Karamazov
[Spoken 1]
What if God exists? Why is it not also true that everything is permitted? Doesn’t freedom to choose get to very heart of who we are – divine, autonomous, part and parcels of God? Where would our divinity be if it were otherwise? If God were to demand only certain types of behaviour from us – surely that would render the divinity of the soul pretty meaningless.
[Chorus]
[Spoken 2]
What if God exists? And everything is god? Isn’t everyone permitted choice of fascination with whatever facet of God they are drawn to? Thus contributing uniquely always to an ever expanding completeness in God’s own experiential self-knowing. Even if sometimes via mind and senses flavoured with denial of God’s very existence. Regardless.
[Instrumental]
Karamazov, Karamazov
[Chorus]
[Spoken 3]
What if God exists? Isn’t our goal of life still up to us? Not at all prescribed? Does humanity need fear of a wrathful God in order to live a moral life? Do we not each and everyone possess an internal morality compass that doesn’t require threat of punishment in order to act divinely? OK, but what about the dark stuff?
[Outro]
Karamazov, Karamazov, Karamazov, Karamazov
“If there is no God, everything is permitted” is widely attributed to Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.
