Bill:

The original article to which you linked is prfoundly misguided, historically inaccurate, and metaphysically cross-eyed and lame. It is the sort of obsessive control talk which makes facists out of people looking for God -- a bizarre conversion, indeed!

Guest Billy: I think you are mistaken about hypocrisy, perhaps due to a semantic confusion about th emeaning of the word "believe". I have never believed that there would be a day when the Saints would come marching in. But, I gotta tell ya, I can sing it with intention and complete involvement. Of course it may be that singing with intent and involvement and genuine compassion for the viewpoint of the song is what you mean by belief. I do agree withyou that taking the music of passion and sweat and rough living and polishing it up the way PP&M did to a degree of nicety never conceived in the original is some kind of sin, perhaps minor but nevertheless annoying.

Haruo -- you one very smaht guy, man.!!

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