2 TV Preachers freaking out because they passed a church and the BEATLES "Hey Jude" was wafting out

[jodymarie aimee]

I was just flipping channels to see if they added any new ones to my package....happened upon this churchy one with 2 Church guys. They are freaking out because they passed a church and the BEATLES "Hey Jude" was wafting out. How dare they use worldly music in a church, says one. It is only to make you jump and jive and that is not the spirit of God. Then the other guy made sure to point out that said BEATLES once said they were more popular than GOD.

You guys, this is who we are dealing with...yikes...these fellows look to be about my age(66 or younger)...and full disclosure.. my Dad was a Catholic priest. Died this July. So I know my way around preachers.

I guess these are the Family Values nuts....it is hard to believe unless you see it with your own eyes. And I just did...

[Angry Dragon]

1. not many catholic priests with children .............

[jodymarie aimee]

3. yup, our Dad was one of the first

WW2, married Mom, had 7 kids and in his mid 40s was ordained. Bishop opened it up to the layity, as no young one were joining the seminary. Thanks for your interest Dragon...

[Angry Dragon]

4. I think priests should be allowed to marry

at one time in the old days they were allowed to marry

[WePurrsevere]

5. This might help explain it a bit more...

http://www.newsweek.com/pope-francis-married-catholic-priests-571764

My stepmother is Catholic or I wouldn't have known either.

[Angry Dragon]

10. thank you

[Sanity Claws]

2. Some people take offense at everything.

They just like to complain and pretend they are better than everyone else.

[A HERETIC I AM]

6. John Lennon regretted that poor choice of words for the rest of his life

Even though he never said what people think he said.

Of course the biggest stink was made in the USA, as one might expect. The rest of the world kind of yawned. In this country however, it went much like Natalie Maines comment about Bush. Records were burned and steamrolled, radio stations wouldn’t play their music, etc.

[lpbk2713]

15. True. It never was intended as a boast.

It was a lamentable observation. But some people hear what
they want to hear and there is no changing their point of view.

[unblock]

18. well, it was a boast.

just not the kind of boast people took offense to.

he was boasting about how widely known they were.

as he made clear in his apology, he wasn't boasting about being better or greater or anything, just more widely known.


it is interesting to have this reminder of an example of thin-skinned christian martyrdom from 50 years ago. i had forgotten about this and thought this was a more recent phenomenon.

[MontanaMama]

7. Priests who are allowed to marry

would be far less likely to molest children, in my lay opinion.

[jodymarie aimee]

8. you guys are getting side tracked

the point of my OP is crazy preachers on TV with very narrow opinions..not my Dad !!

[MontanaMama]

9. Just saying it is a good thing

for clergy to have that option. They would have much richer and fulfilling lives...like your dad!

[Angry Dragon]

12. I am sure your dad was a fine father .......... perhaps a little pun there

My Dad .............. song by Paul Peterson

[brewens]

11. How exactly would they recognize the tune? Music like that in similar situations, even classics I

listen to regularly, can take me a minute to realize what I am hearing. Like going by the band room at a junior high not too long ago and hearing Wish You Were Here. The band was doing a pretty good job, but it was out of the usual context and a different enough sound to it that it took me a minute to identify it.

Sounds like one of them might be a huge Beatles fan.

[logosoco]

13. The ONLY thing that was somewhat bearable when I had to go to

Catholic church was when they had the guitar players and they would play "Morning Has Broken".



(disclosure: at around the age of 5 I knew the religion thing was not my thing but was forced to go until I was a teenager and could finally get out of it! But the art, architecture and music are some of the things I do like about churches!)

[Thomas Hurt]

14. They only listen to that worldly hippie music so that they can warn others (wink, wink)

[Lint Head]

16. I know I shouldn't hate but.... I hate Christians who think they own Christianity.

Like it is theirs and theirs alone to keep safe. Religion is a personal thing. Just like the lack of religion is a personal thing. That's what you call Freedom.

[gratuitous]

17. David jumped and jived

2 Sam 6. David caught flak from some blue-nose busybody, too.

But if "Hey Jude" caused these two drama queens to have a case of the vapors, I wouldn't advise them to stop by my church. We're as likely to have show tunes belted out for the postlude as anything else, and my friend and I once did "Tangled Up In Blue" for the prelude.

Lighten up, boys.