RE: What xtian hymns sound like to an atheist
September 22, 2017 at 11:09 am
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2017 at 11:12 am by drfuzzy.)
(September 21, 2017 at 5:52 pm)Mathilda Wrote:(September 21, 2017 at 2:53 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: Some of you know that I'm a church organist - I don't make enough in my regular job, need a side hustle. For the most part, playing the music is easy and fun. But oh, I really try not to listen to the words of these songs!
Do you sometimes find yourself doing something similar to this?
Well, you know, I don't want to get fired. It has been terribly tempting to do something weird at times. A friend and I once spent a pleasant hour figuring out ways to hide bits of fun tunes in typical church hymns - for example, how can you combine "Popeye the Sailor Man" with "Be Not Afraid"? Combine a bit of that with some glasses of wine and you have two very silly church musicians.
(September 21, 2017 at 10:20 pm)Redbeard The Pink Wrote: The thing that really stuck out to me after coming out of it and then being exposed to it again was how many of the songs have lines about being washed in the blood of a human sacrifice. Yuck.
I'm washed in the blood of the Lamb!! Yep. And "showers of blessing" - - "mercy-drops round us are falling" -- what the hell is a mercy-drop and you don't EVEN want to know what the teenage boys did to that song . . .
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
