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...Savior Complex...
...view the listener receives from Dr. John is full of contradictions... contradictions that underlie black and white magic, savior and sinner. On his first album he introduced himself as Dr. John the Night Tripper, "with medicine to cure all your ills," but in The Sun, Moon and Herbs he has moved toward the demonic, at one point carrying on a strange conversation in which he tells of punishing his enemies with snake eggs and burning candles. Dr. John is the high priest of magic, but is the magic black or white...
Either Christ was God and Savior and Lord or he wasn't; and if he were, then he had to have all my time, all my devotion, all my life...
...like him when you meet him. He's candid, concerned.... Oh, but of course you must have met him. There hasn't been a sherry party he's missed. He's Derek C. Bok, he's The Answer, The Savior, The Lucky Ticket, The Academy's Messiah. He's The New President-"and a better gentleman," they say in Harvard clubs around the country, "A nicer guy," they say in the Dillon Field locker rooms, "A cooler head," they say in the Adams House dining room, "a more well-considered selection," they say in the Faculty club, you just couldn...
...passing. "People know I'm old-fashioned enough to believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God, virgin-born and resurrected," he explains; he just prefers to stress "moral truths." Though he worries about such national problems as drugs and pornography, Humbard tries to preach positively. "Seek the Savior," he urges, in his usual simplification of the evangelical message, and all other moral problems will solve themselves...