Comments on: Morning Has Broken

By: thethirdchimpanzee

thethirdchimpanzee — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:44:09 +0000

I was reading a thread recently on an atheist board I sometimes hang out on and it got me thinking that yes, there are some songs that have religious themes and that doesn’t stop me from enjoying them. And I don;t mean stuff that even atheists like such as Jesus Christ Superstar or Faure’s or Mozart’s Requiem or “Amazing Grace”…

But I like stuff like “Morning Has Broken” (love Cat Stevens…to bad he joined that stupid club!) and Lori McKenna’s “Paper Wings & Halo” and Bob Schneider’s “God is My Friend”.

I am sure I will think of other examples as soon as I post this…

But I avidly disliked forced religious BS like “Jesus Take the Wheel”…

By: Warren

Warren — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:42:00 +0000

I thought “fresh from the Word” too, for obvious reasons; it’s much more perfect poetically. Allegedly, though, the lyrics are “world” instead.

That’s not the version I prefer.

I think we’re agreed. It’s Word, not world. Revised, and damn the lyrics databases.

You know, it’s hard enough to look back on the 1970s and know a lot of that innocence is gone forever — and it’s harder still to look back on, say, 1996 and wish to hell Clinton was back in power again.

Remember how nice it was, just ten years ago?

Christ, I hate feeling so damned old. And so. Damned. Tired.

By: JoAnne

JoAnne — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:57:12 +0000

I thought it was “praise for them springing fresh from the Word,” as in, “in the beginning was the Word.”

I am: Atheist, too. Inspired by the song since a child, too. Sickened by violence, too.