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bluegreen17) wrote2003-02-01 10:16 pm
bluegreen17) wrote2003-02-01 10:16 pm
jesus,brigid,saint patrick,auroras,zephyrs,groundhogs,et al.
i have my issues with christianity,but not jesus.no problem with jesus.
but why did i get really annoyed with music that mentions jesus and 'lord' constantly? well,maybe because a lot of christian music isn't very good. i don't know. i also really don't like harp music,except for interludes in marx brothers movies by harpo. so i guess that's why the cd my sister and her family gave me for christmas is annoying the heck out of me. also,probably because i want to like it and i haven't written a thank you note about it,but i want to find something i like about it. it's a christian celtic cd,and it's the celtic part that made my sister think of me.i DO like celtic music...the really old traditional stuff,not so much the danny boy lounge stuff,if you know what i mean.
the current song i'm listening to has piano,and a bit of woodwind,but it's not the beautiful and emotionally evocative tin whistle that makes me melt into a puddle of goo.
jesus,i just checked out the liner notes and that song i was listening DID have irish whistle and uillean pipes,which i adore and which also turn me into a puddle of goo. geez,it must have been really really low in the mix,because i barely heard it.
oh,now it's the star of the county down...okay,a lovely fiddle solo.no,now two,very nice.feeling gooey.unfortunately,it's been turned into a song called 'i heard the voice of jesus say'. it's really not bad because it's a good tune,but...(boy,do i miss my atwater/donnelly tapes...wah...must find some someday again)
frankly,i think christianity has not been very good to ireland.and i totally don't agree with the liner notes which say:
"when saint patrick brought christianity to ireland he found men and women who eagerly embraced the gospel,with its emphasis on jesus, through whom god created all things.[huh? that makes no sense to me] for it was through creation,the stars,the trees,even the stones,that these people had sought,in vain,to find god."
that's funny,if i'm going to sense god in the world,it's through the trees,the stars,the wind,etc that i feel that presence most.but maybe that's just me. oh,and let's not talk about 'saint' brigid,who used to be a goddess...
by the way,happy saint brigid's day (imbolc...beginning of spring/groundhog day) tomorrow,anam caras.
but why did i get really annoyed with music that mentions jesus and 'lord' constantly? well,maybe because a lot of christian music isn't very good. i don't know. i also really don't like harp music,except for interludes in marx brothers movies by harpo. so i guess that's why the cd my sister and her family gave me for christmas is annoying the heck out of me. also,probably because i want to like it and i haven't written a thank you note about it,but i want to find something i like about it. it's a christian celtic cd,and it's the celtic part that made my sister think of me.i DO like celtic music...the really old traditional stuff,not so much the danny boy lounge stuff,if you know what i mean.
the current song i'm listening to has piano,and a bit of woodwind,but it's not the beautiful and emotionally evocative tin whistle that makes me melt into a puddle of goo.
jesus,i just checked out the liner notes and that song i was listening DID have irish whistle and uillean pipes,which i adore and which also turn me into a puddle of goo. geez,it must have been really really low in the mix,because i barely heard it.
oh,now it's the star of the county down...okay,a lovely fiddle solo.no,now two,very nice.feeling gooey.unfortunately,it's been turned into a song called 'i heard the voice of jesus say'. it's really not bad because it's a good tune,but...(boy,do i miss my atwater/donnelly tapes...wah...must find some someday again)
frankly,i think christianity has not been very good to ireland.and i totally don't agree with the liner notes which say:
"when saint patrick brought christianity to ireland he found men and women who eagerly embraced the gospel,with its emphasis on jesus, through whom god created all things.[huh? that makes no sense to me] for it was through creation,the stars,the trees,even the stones,that these people had sought,in vain,to find god."
that's funny,if i'm going to sense god in the world,it's through the trees,the stars,the wind,etc that i feel that presence most.but maybe that's just me. oh,and let's not talk about 'saint' brigid,who used to be a goddess...
by the way,happy saint brigid's day (imbolc...beginning of spring/groundhog day) tomorrow,anam caras.
brigid bless ;)
i mean, really. christianity wasn't all that good to *anyone* it inflicted itself upon, in that period of time.
but i mean. i don't know. i get weirded out when i hear religion being invoked in contexts i don't expect it to be - music, the news... i'm grossed out by the president of the us reading passages from the bible. but that's what i get for being a godless heathen i guess.
e, who was a pagan once, but then burned herself on some incense, and is now just a heathen
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anyway, i agree.
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