Posted on 02/17/2009 8:54:58 PM PST by Steelfish
CHER RIPS NUNS IN NEW SONG, "SISTERS OF MERCY"
A week prior to the release of Cher’s new CD, "Not Commercial," she was blasted all over the country by the Catholic League for her anti-Catholic song, "Sisters of Mercy." The
Cher described the songs on her new CD, all of which she wrote, as "dark." Indeed, she authorized a warning label on the cover because of the subject matter and colorful language. The CD was released on November 8 and the league struck on November 1.
The song that caught the attention of the Catholic League was "Sisters of Mercy." Allegedly written on the basis of tales told to Cher by her mother (Cher spent a brief time in a Catholic orphanage as an infant), the song attacks the Catholic order of nuns from beginning to end. The Sisters are called "daughters of hell"; "master of pain"; "mothers of shame"; "twisters of truth"; and "daughters of war."
Other lines in the song that refer to the Sisters of Mercy are as follows: "They always weave their web of lies and wrap you in their wicked spell"; "They try to crucify your inner sense and do it in God’s name"; "They use God like he’s a weapon but only for a chosen few, then hide behind pious faces like the guilty always do"; "These chicks administer your penance while the devil guards their door," etc.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicleague.org ...
She should have Yoko sing backup for her “poems”.
[then we’d *really* “feel her pain”]
Now now, it’s more of a primordial belch, and I mean that in the nicest possible way. (Not A Racist, Bad Marxist Poets Come in All Colors!) Bob
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