Posted on 11/19/2017 4:19:50 PM PST by ForYourChildren
Here's ..side of the musician you didn’t see in the film 'Walk the Line,' released 12 years ago this weekend.
Johnny Cash had two loves, and we all met one of them thanks to the biopic “Walk the Line,” which was released in 2005. Her name was June Carter.
But Cash had another love. A higher love. One never mentioned by name in the movie: Jesus Christ.
There are some hints about that other love in the film. In an early scene, a young Cash, played brilliantly by Joaquin Phoenix, is auditioning for the man he hopes might make him the next Elvis Presley: Sam Phillips, the Sun Records impresario. Cash walks into the small Memphis studio and begins playing a Gospel song.
Phillips isn’t moved and tells Cash he should play something more meaningful — more relevant. “No one listens to Gospel anymore,” Phillips said to the young Cash.
Cash plays a secular song, gets signed, and the rest was history — at least in the movie version. But it turns out that in real life, Cash never stopped playing Gospel music. Almost a quarter of the songs he wrote were in some way about his faith or the Bible. In addition, Cash recorded the entire King James version of the New Testament, performed at many Billy Graham revivals, and even made a movie about the life of Jesus. In his spare time, Cash studied the Bible more than most Ph.D.s in divinity. Somehow, none of that made it onto the screen during the 136-minute running time of "Walk the Line."
Stripping Jesus Christ out of Johnny Cash's life story is like leaving naked 19-year-old girls out of Hugh Hefner's — or telling the story of Jackie Robinson without mentioning his race or segregation. It's that serious an omission.
(Excerpt) Read more at lifezette.com ...
Who’s on First, Cash was lying, What’s on 2nd, and the helicopter was on the lawn?
Hmm.
You wouldn’t trust this dude to score you a nickel bag of pot or scalp tickets to a Grateful Dead Show, never mind lead you to eternity...
... JC is a no-show there–presumably a no-fault, no guilt act, much lower on the priority scale then [SIC] popping painkillers. Jesus, in this latest Hollywood incarnation, isn’t down with drugs, but he’s easy on euthanasiaThe Gospel Is Mush
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Johnny the Judas Goat evidently never had any problem scoring "nickel bags" (or guitar cases full) of whatever.
Maybe that's Mr. Hahbeeeb's definition of "Man of Great Faith" - and renders a hint about the gullible audience Habeeb and the predators in "Christian"/"Conservative" radio target their Goat-spewage at these days along with reverse mortgages and financial rehabilitation scams for the same pool of geniuses who thought refying the McMansion and buying his and hers Beemers before the Rapture/Harvest exemplified... Great Faith.
And, BTW - it's than, Habeeb fans.
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