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Thread #35104   Message #477596
Posted By: mousethief
06-Jun-01 - 11:50 AM
Thread Name: Can you sing 'Gospel' without Belief?
Subject: RE: Can you sing 'Gospel' without Belief?
Matt, I'm with you. I used to (for satirical purposes) sing a thing that went,

It's so wonderful, wonderful, wonderful,
I'm so happy, happy, happy
Now-that-I've-let Jesus Jesus Jesus
Into my heart-heart-heart-heart-heart!

And that was when i was an evangelical!

Yeah, most of the people in my (Eastern Orthodox) church are converts from one stripe or another of protestantism, and we sometimes miss the old songs, and so at campfire sing-a-longs and such, we will trot them out and sing them in harmony and such. Then we'll laugh and say, "of course the theology is rotten..." and then sing more folk songs.

:)

Alex