August 7, 2008
Dear Jesus
If I hear that commercial for “the greatest Christian power anthems of our time” again, I’m going to crucify my ears.
In loving testimony,
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If I hear that commercial for “the greatest Christian power anthems of our time” again, I’m going to crucify my ears.
In loving testimony,
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Amen, brother.
(I’m Anglican - Episcopalian for you American folks, and I can’t stand this kind of dreck music. But hey, they probably don’t get plainsong chant either.)
Heh. I’ve a bit of a past as a church musician. When this commercial comes on, I feel the infrared heat of my roommate’s incredulity from across the room. Without looking up, I do a roll call for him, confirming the worst: “Played that one…and that…yep, more Twila Paris…doing that next week…”
Take away the words, and a lot of them aren’t too different from Elton John. Well, at least when I get my way. Sacred or secular, it’s a rush to move the crowd.
The mere fact that there exists a “Christian power anthem” is hilarious. It sort of implies the existence of an inferiority complex vs. other belief systems. Do other religions require the use of power anthems? Is there a Jewish power anthem or a Muslim power anthem.
We Hindus don’t need no stinkin’ anthems.
Let’s just bring the real Jesus out, have him wave to the crowd and make some vaguely gang-signish gestures. Then somebody can show him how the mic works, and he’ll say a few things, and everybody will cheer for a few seconds–and then they’ll start hooting for him to get off the damn stage so the music can get going again.
For whatever reason, there is very definitely, as vin notes, a deep-seated inferiority complex apparent in much of American evangelical culture. I don’t get it: if one believes that God is the all-powerful, then how can one also behave like such a victim? And that juxtaposition–”Christian power”–implies something else again, which is what people like Pat Robertson actually dream of nightly.
Anglican is not Episcopalian. Doctrinal differences.
Pat Robertson can bench press 700 pounds!!
Perhaps someone who is skilled among us could pull together the highlights, and mix us up a 16-minute cocktail of a house-disco version of the greatest of the anthems for the dance-party at Clusterflockstock. Soultrain is the new Soultrain?
Amanda, I’m a member of the Anglican Church of Canada, which is in full communion with the Episcopalian Church in the States, and the Church of England, and a whole lot of other religious bodies that call themselves Anglican, or Episcopal (such as the Scottish Episcopal Church).
This may help explain it to you:
http://anglicansonline.org/communion/index.html
Kind regards,