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“We Didn't Start the Fire” Church Histoy Video


Pentecost, Palestine, barbarians, Paul gets a sign
Neglected widows, martyred Stephen, Gentile vs.
Jew

New Testament, getting tribal, Gnostic gospels,


Holy Bible
Jamnia, Revelation, word of God is true

CHORUS: We didn’t start the fire


It’s been always burning
Since the world’s been turning

Martyrs, Diocletian, Polycarp, Domitian


Church learns, Nero burns, Christians
underground

Chi-Rho, basilica, Vita Evangelica


Nicea, Who was Jesus, Christians start to
rebound

CHORUS: We didn’t start the fire


It’s been always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
Though we didn’t light it
And we cannot fight it

St. Patrick, Monastery, Visigoths are pretty scary


Pope Leo, St. Jerome, forgetting how to read

Mohammed writes the Koran, Convert or die to


Islam
Hard to cope, Where's the Pope, the Venerable
Bede

Dark ages, knights and pages, east and west will


split in stages
Monks’ skuills, cathedrals, Charlemagne starts to
reign,

Methodias, Constantinople, Peasants, clergy,


serfs and nobles
Augustine, Irene, everything goes Byzantine

CHORUS: We didn’t start the fire


It’s been always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
Though we didn’t light it
And we cannot fight it

Cluny, bubonic plague, Vikings, Saracens invade


William conquers, priests and monks, and
Jerusalem gets sacked

Flying buttress, St. Clare, celibacy, worship Mary


Knights Templar, stained glass, Sultan Saladin
gets whacked
Mendicants, Avignon, Albertus Magnus, Genghis
Khan
Aquinas, Maimonides, Gentle Francis of Assisi

Summa bono , Faith and reason, say God bless


you when you’re sneezin’
Just War, Crusades galore, but who are we
fighting for?

CHORUS: We didn’t start the fire


It’s been always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
Though we didn’t light it
And we cannot fight it

Competing popes, not much hope, Joan of Arc


makes her mark
John Wycliff, Thomas Kempis, Canterbury Tales

Michelangelo, Siena, Leonardo and Vienna


Reformation, printing press, Guttenberg prevails

John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingle, indulgences for the


kingly
Martin Luther pounds the door, Here I stand, I’ll do
no more

CHORUS: We didn’t start the fire


It’s been always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
Though we didn’t light it
And we cannot fight it

King James Bible, John Locke, Galileo, J.S. Bachj


Anabaptists, Guy Fawkes, Blaise Pascal, John
Knox

Puritans preach denial, Salem witches go on trial


Enlightenment or transcendance, we declare our
independence

Whitfield makes us all Awaken, Pentecostals get


us shakin’
Darwin teaches evolution, Marx preaches
revolution

Jesus freaks, immigration, nuclear annihilation


Overwhelmed by information, Who will save this
generation?

CHORUS: We didn’t start the fire


It’s been always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still go on and on and on and on and on and
on and on and on.....

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