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Thread #35699   Message #489066
Posted By: M.Ted
21-Jun-01 - 03:10 PM
Thread Name: Can a believer sing Atheist songs?
Subject: RE: BS - Can a believer sing Atheist songs?
"Stand-up for Judas" is a strange song--if you trim off the last verse (which is not about Jesus or Judas anyway) and soft sell the chorus, it can be read in two antithetical ways--if you are a spiritualist, Jesus seems right, if you are a materialist, Judas seems right--Too bad Leon ruined his own song by pasting on a verse that leads us toward what he thinks at the end, rather than leaving us to consider a rather important paradox--