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To: Albion Wilde
Your circular “reasoning” really is bigotry by stereotyping.

Example:
A. I had a teacher who always wore green.
B. I hated her because she was mean.
C. My sister likes to wear green.
D. Therefore I am justified in hating my sister, because all females who wear green are mean.”

I loathe the rap form. But I like this guy's use of it to reach people who might otherwise not hear this message. John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist church movement, did the same thing in the 1700s by resetting drinking songs with Christian lyrics and going into the taverns to reach people who were shut out by the snobbish Anglican church — and some of those songs are still sung 200+ years later.

Try not to be a hater in order to hate haters.
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The priest who wrote Silent Night was condemned by his bishop for performing a song in church that was in German not Latin, and accompanied by guitar not an organ.

Seems like the spirit of that bishops is alive and well.

63 posted on 02/17/2014 1:17:28 PM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: fungoking
performing a song in church that was in German not Latin, and accompanied by guitar not an organ.

Well, at least it was actually music, utilizing a musical instrument and a musician...instead of a drum machine and a guy spitting in the microphone.

74 posted on 02/17/2014 3:17:00 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: fungoking
The priest who wrote Silent Night was condemned by his bishop for performing a song in church that was in German not Latin, and accompanied by guitar not an organ. Seems like the spirit of that bishops is alive and well.

Amen to that on this thread!

75 posted on 02/17/2014 4:42:02 PM PST by Albion Wilde (The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
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