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Thread #150071   Message #3514015
Posted By: Steve Shaw
11-May-13 - 07:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: Militant atheism has become a religion
Subject: RE: BS: Militant atheism has become a religion
Very nice song (which I haven't heard sung, admittedly), but this line is a total copout:

Some say they're goin' to a place called Glory and I ain't saying it ain't a fact.

Why ain't she sayin' it? Well I'm sayin' it ain't a fact. I'm sayin' it's a bunch of unsupportable speculation. That's the whole trouble with these pop singers who turn "philosophical": they tend to be naive. They have lived in a bubble. "Imagine", that much-lauded Lennon effort, is about as naive as it gets. Which isn't to say it can't do some good. But do let's see these things for the shallow stuff that they really are.