Celtic Women And Cheesy Songs

My daughter and son-in-law bought tickets for my wife and I to go to the Celtic Women concert performance that was in town tonight. It was excellent. It is amazing how powerful the arts are at reaching into the heart of the people and touching even the hardest of souls.

I would have only one small complaint. Too many "We Are the World" type songs. If I remember right there were about 3 of this sort. And that is not counting the "You Lift Me Up" song. (I happen to like that one.) Utopia is not a subject that I am very fond of. As PT Barnum said, " A sucker is born every minute."

But while I am on the subject, let me just comment that these "We Are the World" type songs often have pseudo-Christian lyrics. And they are often, quite off the mark.

Have you ever looked up the words to "We Are the World? Two lines stand out to me. One is sung by Willie Nelson and it says "As god has shown us, by turning stones into bread." Let me ask you, where in the bible did god ever do that? Didn't satan tempt Jesus and tell him to do that? And Jesus refused. He said, "Man does not live by bread alone. But by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." Another line in that song says, "There's a choice were making, were saving our own lives." I think Waylon Jennings walked out and refused to sing this. The original lyric of that was "there's a choice were making, were taking our own lives" And he wouldn't come back and sing it even after it was changed. Taking = suicide and saving = heresy.

I think there are many more lines of bad theology out there hidden in the middle of many popular songs. They sound like good words like "love each other" but they are full of deception. Maybe you could comment with some that you have found particularly distasteful ?