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I was just flipping channels to see if they added any new ones to my package....happened upon this churchy one with 2 Church guys. They are freaking out because they passed a church and the BEATLES "Hey Jude" was wafting out. How dare they use worldly music in a church, says one. It is only to make you jump and jive and that is not the spirit of God. Then the other guy made sure to point out that said BEATLES once said they were more popular than GOD.
You guys, this is who we are dealing with...yikes...these fellows look to be about my age(66 or younger)...and full disclosure.. my Dad was a Catholic priest. Died this July. So I know my way around preachers.
I guess these are the Family Values nuts....it is hard to believe unless you see it with your own eyes. And I just did...
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)jodymarie aimee
(3,975 posts)WW2, married Mom, had 7 kids and in his mid 40s was ordained. Bishop opened it up to the layity, as no young one were joining the seminary. Thanks for your interest Dragon...
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)at one time in the old days they were allowed to marry
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)My stepmother is Catholic or I wouldn't have known either.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,860 posts)They just like to complain and pretend they are better than everyone else.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,380 posts)Even though he never said what people think he said.
Of course the biggest stink was made in the USA, as one might expect. The rest of the world kind of yawned. In this country however, it went much like Natalie Maines comment about Bush. Records were burned and steamrolled, radio stations wouldnt play their music, etc.
lpbk2713
(42,769 posts)It was a lamentable observation. But some people hear what
they want to hear and there is no changing their point of view.
unblock
(52,379 posts)just not the kind of boast people took offense to.
he was boasting about how widely known they were.
as he made clear in his apology, he wasn't boasting about being better or greater or anything, just more widely known.
it is interesting to have this reminder of an example of thin-skinned christian martyrdom from 50 years ago. i had forgotten about this and thought this was a more recent phenomenon.
MontanaMama
(23,351 posts)would be far less likely to molest children, in my lay opinion.
jodymarie aimee
(3,975 posts)the point of my OP is crazy preachers on TV with very narrow opinions..not my Dad !!
MontanaMama
(23,351 posts)for clergy to have that option. They would have much richer and fulfilling lives...like your dad!
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)My Dad .............. song by Paul Peterson
brewens
(13,629 posts)listen to regularly, can take me a minute to realize what I am hearing. Like going by the band room at a junior high not too long ago and hearing Wish You Were Here. The band was doing a pretty good job, but it was out of the usual context and a different enough sound to it that it took me a minute to identify it.
Sounds like one of them might be a huge Beatles fan.
logosoco
(3,208 posts)Catholic church was when they had the guitar players and they would play "Morning Has Broken".
(disclosure: at around the age of 5 I knew the religion thing was not my thing but was forced to go until I was a teenager and could finally get out of it! But the art, architecture and music are some of the things I do like about churches!)
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Like it is theirs and theirs alone to keep safe. Religion is a personal thing. Just like the lack of religion is a personal thing. That's what you call Freedom.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)2 Sam 6. David caught flak from some blue-nose busybody, too.
But if "Hey Jude" caused these two drama queens to have a case of the vapors, I wouldn't advise them to stop by my church. We're as likely to have show tunes belted out for the postlude as anything else, and my friend and I once did "Tangled Up In Blue" for the prelude.
Lighten up, boys.