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"Stories like this remind me of this old hymn..."Onward, Christian Soldiers."

One of the hymns that my denomination's powers-that-be took out of our hymnal, a few years ago when we got a new edition of the hymnal, right along with the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Numerous denominations have done this, and consequently, you rarely hear either son, nowadays (waaaaaay too warlike, doncha know). The left is very good at simply erasing what they do not approve of.

Onward Christian Soliders
Marching as to War
With the Cross of Jesus
Going on Before

The great, great hymn, I always associate it with the Salvation Army, who are GREAT. Pray, what unfortunate denomination do you belong to that stripped this fine song from your hymnals? At least this is one sin that Catholics are not guilty of, it was never in our (is it still our for me? don't know!) hymnals. We just screwed up "Amazing Grace"! Also not our song, but we screwed it up anyway ("such a one as me" instead of "such a wretch as me".) At least I heard THAT decried from the pulpit.

Did 9/11 change anything? Did it change everything? Did it change this nonsense?

Sometimes when I'm on this site all weekend, I feel like we all can change everything; other times, I'm not so sure. But I tell you, the BS quotient has to be improved quickly, otherwise it won't matter whether or not the terrorists win, freedom, liberty, and natural law will be defeated anyway.

One Sunday several years ago our congregation began singing the tune of "Onward, Christian Soldiers" but with a different title and different words. I don't recall what the new version was. An older woman next to me started heartily belting out the standard words without reading the hymnal's sanitized version. About halfway through the first verse, she realized her error. I was embarrassed more for the church than for her on hearing a fine old hymn perverted.