So, reading her bio, we find Annie Lennox is not a Christian, but does Christian-like good works with children--especially in Africa (how conveniently PC) and has put out this Christmas album with the hope of restoring "the hymnal heart and soulful sentiment" of the selected songs, hoping they will "appeal to people of all faiths creeds and cultures."
What sentimental deluded PC tripe. Those songs and sentiments only came into being because of, in the main, the Christian faith. Lennox seems to want the good that only Christianity has seemed to produce (hence her desire to "restore" the original "era of good feeling" that inspired the songs) without Christianity itself. And good luck with the Muslims, Annie. Lennox wants it both ways--to bathe in the light that only Christianity can produce while denying the need for its existence. Enjoy the fading light while you can Annie..
Some PC public school teacher removed the religious language in the song "Silent Night".
I'm really sick of this crap. Christmas is a Christian holiday. (holy day) Don't like Christianity? Please refrain form celebrating Christmas. Don't like traditional Christmas songs? Fine. Don't use them at all. Sing frosty the snowman and shut up.
Interesting. I really like this rather militant version of this song. The drumbeat gathering the people to march and spread the "tidings of comfort and joy" booom.....boooom.....booooom.
All they need now to really inspire a militant movement of Christian backlash (which I do believe we need) would be some skirling bagpipes.
Virgil, that's from her bio, you say. She's mad as a brush, but so. In an a radio interview she comes across quite well, I think. She talks about making her Christmas album and why, I got the impression these were songs that appealed to her growing up. That's all.
1. I like it better when singers of this song, carefully if a bit awkwardly pronounce the O in comfort, as opposed to the 'comfert' we hear here. Yuck.
2. I love the name Lennox and after my mother dies I intend to change my first name to Lennox. (Oddly enough my mother's name is Annie.) I might compromise slightly to my husband who thinks I'm nuts and rename myself Ruby Lennox {Lastname}, after the narrator in my favorite novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum.
3. That is a weird-ass video.
4. I appreciate it when secularists have enough respect for religious music to sing it as written with all the glorious Christian language.
Virgil ... I kind of like that video, reminds me of me in oh so many ways. Yes, secular idealists, which I was for 68 years, do seem to want only the best parts of things. And why not?
That doesn't mean we don't read and educate ourselves on other faiths & cultures besides the secular, itself a faith of sorts. Had I not done so I would not have become a Christian and first baptized at age 69. I'd estimate my "faith" would not satisfy very many people, but Annie might "get it."
When I live is frequently cited for the strife between world religions, except we don't experience much of that strife here...in fact, historically our little town has been a refuge for those seeking a better way of life, even the Muslims coming here over 100 Years ago.
A reaction of one of my neighbors, tearfully sobbing the words "we're so sorry, what we fled has followed us here." That was 9/11/2001...and they knew of my Army affiliation and Judi's Christian faith.
Yes, we have a few "noise-makers" but they are a distinct minority...and mostly of them don't even really live here.
As I said above, Annie Lennox's songs here appeals to me...and this is the only excuse I have.
Yes, her treatment of the song appeals to me also, and I have misplaced my pants, your statement about admiration for secularists having "enough respect for religious music to sing it as written with all the glorious Christian language" is true enough as far as it goes, and we should, as they say, "be thankful for small favors," but the savagely ironic bit about their admiration is that they don't seem to realize that if the world was ordered in the way they seem to want and actively espouse, those songs--and the religion that spawned them-- would have never been allowed to exist in the first place.
April Apple ...No, that is just another of John Lennon's navel gazing guru wannabe attempts to tell everyone else what's wrong with the world and linking it to Christmas.
I do apologize for sticking my nose in the conversation...knee jerk reaction, I despise that Brit ex-pat hypocrite.
Virgil ... I fully understand your point. My sense of it all is that sharing the concepts without trappings is a start. None of the people I've known who were intellectually honest, whether Buddhist, Hindu, Christian of sundry variations, Muslim, even Confucian and other ancient philosophies failed to credit the source of the whole of Christianity. The news media and sundry activists would have everyone think we're all hostile...which belies their ignorance or selfish interests or both. The fact is that most of the activists anti-this or that have never walked the road of which they speak.
So yes, I believe your take on this and admit it is why I finally joined the faithful. As referred to on another thread here, I had nothing else to lose.
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On a different note- this is what the internet mob does to people.
Another example of the thought crime/ mind crime /speech police.
So, reading her bio, we find Annie Lennox is not a Christian, but does Christian-like good works with children--especially in Africa (how conveniently PC) and has put out this Christmas album with the hope of restoring "the hymnal heart and soulful sentiment" of the selected songs, hoping they will "appeal to people of all faiths creeds and cultures."
What sentimental deluded PC tripe. Those songs and sentiments only came into being because of, in the main, the Christian faith. Lennox seems to want the good that only Christianity has seemed to produce (hence her desire to "restore" the original "era of good feeling" that inspired the songs) without Christianity itself. And good luck with the Muslims, Annie. Lennox wants it both ways--to bathe in the light that only Christianity can produce while denying the need for its existence. Enjoy the fading light while you can Annie..
Or as someone we all know might say:
"Enjoy the decline beaatch,..."
Excellent points, Virgil. I agree.
Some PC public school teacher removed the religious language in the song "Silent Night".
I'm really sick of this crap.
Christmas is a Christian holiday. (holy day)
Don't like Christianity? Please refrain form celebrating Christmas. Don't like traditional Christmas songs? Fine. Don't use them at all. Sing frosty the snowman and shut up.
The teacher was afraid of offending non-Christians.
At Christmas time, it's not the Christians who matter, it's the delicate and easily offended non-Christians.
Interesting. I really like this rather militant version of this song. The drumbeat gathering the people to march and spread the "tidings of comfort and joy" booom.....boooom.....booooom.
All they need now to really inspire a militant movement of Christian backlash (which I do believe we need) would be some skirling bagpipes.
Virgil, that's from her bio, you say. She's mad as a brush, but so. In an a radio interview she comes across quite well, I think. She talks about making her Christmas album and why, I got the impression these were songs that appealed to her growing up. That's all.
1. I like it better when singers of this song, carefully if a bit awkwardly pronounce the O in comfort, as opposed to the 'comfert' we hear here. Yuck.
2. I love the name Lennox and after my mother dies I intend to change my first name to Lennox. (Oddly enough my mother's name is Annie.) I might compromise slightly to my husband who thinks I'm nuts and rename myself Ruby Lennox {Lastname}, after the narrator in my favorite novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum.
3. That is a weird-ass video.
4. I appreciate it when secularists have enough respect for religious music to sing it as written with all the glorious Christian language.
Virgil ... I kind of like that video, reminds me of me in oh so many ways. Yes, secular idealists, which I was for 68 years, do seem to want only the best parts of things. And why not?
That doesn't mean we don't read and educate ourselves on other faiths & cultures besides the secular, itself a faith of sorts. Had I not done so I would not have become a Christian and first baptized at age 69. I'd estimate my "faith" would not satisfy very many people, but Annie might "get it."
When I live is frequently cited for the strife between world religions, except we don't experience much of that strife here...in fact, historically our little town has been a refuge for those seeking a better way of life, even the Muslims coming here over 100 Years ago.
A reaction of one of my neighbors, tearfully sobbing the words "we're so sorry, what we fled has followed us here." That was 9/11/2001...and they knew of my Army affiliation and Judi's Christian faith.
Yes, we have a few "noise-makers" but they are a distinct minority...and mostly of them don't even really live here.
As I said above, Annie Lennox's songs here appeals to me...and this is the only excuse I have.
@Aridog, Chip Ahoy/
Yes, her treatment of the song appeals to me also, and I have misplaced my pants, your statement about admiration for secularists having "enough respect for religious music to sing it as written with all the glorious Christian language" is true enough as far as it goes, and we should, as they say, "be thankful for small favors," but the savagely ironic bit about their admiration is that they don't seem to realize that if the world was ordered in the way they seem to want and actively espouse, those songs--and the religion that spawned them-- would have never been allowed to exist in the first place.
She has a lovely voice, but I like my carols more traditional (50s and 60s) or Jazzy, yeah, man.
I can tell you the worst Christmas song. Do you know what it is? I heard it again while shopping. It makes my ears bleed.
Santa Baby?
Happy Xmas (War is Over)?
Deborah ... that song of hypocrisy by the narcissistic pigs Lennon and Ono is a classic of smug disrespect.
Sorry ... I fell asleep.
"So this is Christmas" by John Lennon.
Is that the same song, Deborah?
April Apple ...No, that is just another of John Lennon's navel gazing guru wannabe attempts to tell everyone else what's wrong with the world and linking it to Christmas.
I do apologize for sticking my nose in the conversation...knee jerk reaction, I despise that Brit ex-pat hypocrite.
The version they play on the radio and over the sound systems is so annoying. The children singing whiney *nohny nohny* shreds the nerve endings.
Virgil ... I fully understand your point. My sense of it all is that sharing the concepts without trappings is a start. None of the people I've known who were intellectually honest, whether Buddhist, Hindu, Christian of sundry variations, Muslim, even Confucian and other ancient philosophies failed to credit the source of the whole of Christianity. The news media and sundry activists would have everyone think we're all hostile...which belies their ignorance or selfish interests or both. The fact is that most of the activists anti-this or that have never walked the road of which they speak.
So yes, I believe your take on this and admit it is why I finally joined the faithful. As referred to on another thread here, I had nothing else to lose.
Yes, same song April. I don't hate it, but I don't consider it to be in the Christmas carol canon.
that song is pure evil.
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