Poll: Which Hymn Do you Wish was Banned From Church?

The Holy Observer ^

[ensignsj]

Vote at the Holy Observer.

[ensignsj]

Look toward the middle of the page for the link to cast your vote.

[pillut48]

Anti-Christian website. Don’t bother.

[Tax-chick]

This is really funny:

[SolidWood]

Ditto that.

[Charles Henrickson]

TEST TUBES IN SPACE!
Tune: "Earth and All Stars" (LW 438, LSB 817)

Test tubes in space!
Loud clashing symbols!
Sing like we're stuck in the Sixties once more!
Turtle-necked profs!
Loud boiling classrooms!
Sing like we're stuck in the Sixties once more!
This is such mar-gi-nal stuff.
Why are we singing such an odd song?

[Pontiac]

All of the traditional hymns which have had their lyrics modified to be politically correct.

[Charles Henrickson]

AWFUL SONG
Tune: "Awesome God"

Our song is an awful song,
It's filled with empty fluff--
Of Christ, not near enough--
Our song is an awful song.

[Charles Henrickson]

SHAME, CHURCHES, SHAME
Tune: "Shine, Jesus, Shine"

Shame, churches, shame,
For this brand of "creative worship."
Lame, music, lame--
That's what you admire.
Spine, churches, spine--
Blending in isn't so "courageous."
Check out your roots,
Church, and sing some real hymns.

[Tax-chick]

LOL!

[JenB]

“Awesome God” is a great song if the verses are included. Without the verses, the chorus is weak. With the verses, the context of “awesome” is the old fashioned awe-some sense, not the surfer dude sense.

[Charles Henrickson]

“Awesome God” is a great song if the verses are included.

Actually, the verses make it WORSE! Terrible confusion of Law and Gospel.

[garyhope]

“The Macarena”, “I’m Too Sexy For My Shirt”?

[Gamecock]

Preach it brother!

I vote for the gnostic drivel “He Lives.”

[Charles Henrickson]

I vote for the gnostic drivel “He Lives.”

You can add the treacly "In the Garden" and "For Those Tears I Died."

[bcsco]

I won’t vote to ban any, but I’ll play Sinatra’s “Here’s To The Losers” in honor of those that qualify. I’d only have trouble with the final part where Sinatra sings “Bless ‘em all”.

BTW, the parody you provided here is great because it highlights one of my all-time least favorite hymns. It has to be an ELCA staple. Thank God I haven’t heard it yet at our LCMS church (yes, they do have contemporary services...do I go? Not very often).

[sauropod]

How about “Magesty” and

“Lord I lift Your name on high” is my #1 all time worst song.

Even worse than Barry Manilow’s “Mandy.”

[Gamecock]

If you would open your Book of Worship for United States Forces to Hymn 308, titled I Danced In The Morning....

I ask you, what kind of neo-paganism garbage is that!?!

[Huntress]

I’ve always cringed when I hear the “Lord’s Prayer” set to music. It’s a beautiful prayer to recite, but the tune it’s sung to is awful.

[Cheburashka]

Reverend, it appears you’ve spent a lot of time in agony during services trying not to yield to the temptation to bite your own ears off.

[heartwood]

They’re going to sing “Soon and very sooon, We’re going to see the king” as the closing hymn every week until Christmas, and I am leaving on the first “Soon” every week until Christmas.