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Started 3 years ago by phrankygee
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phrankygee
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The guy who wrote this song is the REAL reason that the airlines won't let you carry anything sharper than a spork on board a commercial flight.

http://www.swordofthespiritministries.us/media/David_Phelps_-_The_End_Of_The_Beginning.mp3

I heard this song on the radio last night and laughed my ass off at the idiocy and arrogance and cheesy horribleness of it all. If you can sit through the whole song silently, then you are made of far stronger stuff than I.

This song, for me, wraps up everything wrong with Christianity in a neat package, especially how the non-believing character in the story is dealt with.

Posted 3 years ago #
Jeremy
Member

Agh. I couldn't do it. I made it to 1:20.

Posted 3 years ago #
LRA
Member

so repeating the same bullsh*t back to me is "gonna change [my] life"? HAAAAAAHAHAHAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAHAAAHAHAAAAA!

*wipes tear*

That was a real knee slapper.

Posted 3 years ago #
phrankygee
Member

'Zactly, LRA. It doesn't say in the song that he repeated it LOU-DER AND SLOW-ER the second and third time, but I imagine he did.

Posted 3 years ago #
James G
Member

Sometimes I think that the only difference between believers and atheists is the latter's ability to reconise irony. I wonder if this is why the British have such a low rate of religiosity.

Posted 3 years ago #
Daniel Florien
Administrator

Oh man, I'm making this into a post. Hilarious.

Posted 3 years ago #
phrankygee
Member

There's a youtube video of it too, Daniel, hosted by user hoover4000.

Posted 3 years ago #
bondgrrl
Member

Why oh why is Xtian music so universally bloody awful!? Like you, phrankygee, I laughed the whole way through, even while fast-forwarding through the "life-changing" chorus.

Posted 3 years ago #
phrankygee
Member

The stupidest part of the song is that the victim of the song's evangelism is so micharacterized.

He clearly states that he's "heard it all before" and doesn't "need it anymore", which sounds a lot like what I would say to the douchebag on the plane trying to read the bible to me, but then he is surprised by the part where Jesus rises from the grave? seriously, who doesn't know that part of the story?

It's very clear this songwriter has spent about zero minutes in real life actually talking with non-Christians. He has no idea what a real atheist looks like.

Posted 3 years ago #
Elemenope
Moderator

Jars of Clay had a tune or two that were not execrable.

Posted 3 years ago #
phrankygee
Member

I've already mentioned to Dwade (back when he was dwade) several Christian artists that were/are good. U2 and Al Green and Johnny Cash could be classified as Christian recording artists, if you wanted to, and they are icons of their various musical genres. And, of course the great classical composers, too.

So, while not all Christian music is bad, it does seem that the more overtly Christian-y it is, the less tolerable it is as music, at least from my point of view.

Posted 3 years ago #
Ty
Moderator

"He has no idea what a real atheist looks like. "

You can usually tell by their expression of sorrow at being cut off from god, and by the baby blood spattered on their hemp clothing.

Posted 3 years ago #
DDM
Member

I laughed the whole way through, even while fast-forwarding through the "life-changing" chorus.

That's like, 3/4ths the song!

Posted 3 years ago #
bondgrrl
Member

"I laughed the whole way through, even while fast-forwarding through the "life-changing" chorus.

That's like, 3/4ths the song!"

Yeah! I just couldn't handle it again. It was like I was supposed to be the imaginary atheist on the plane who - after hearing it the FIFTH time - just might get it!

Posted 3 years ago #
phrankygee
Member

If only real evangelists came with a "fast-forward" button!

Posted 3 years ago #
DDM
Member

You guys notice they didn't say anything about the nonbeliever after browbeating him with the Bible? Guy probably requested another seat.

Posted 3 years ago #
phrankygee
Member

Or a parachute.

Posted 3 years ago #
bondgrrl
Member

Or one of those wing-monsters from The Twilight Zone. That'd be less horrifying.

Posted 3 years ago #
Ty
Moderator

Hahahahaha!

Maybe the wing monster was just an evangelical!

Posted 3 years ago #
Gringa
Member

It would be awesome if the guy saw Jesus on the wing, waving and smiling.

Posted 3 years ago #
bondgrrl
Member

Yeah! Yeah! And the guy reading the bible to him over and over was Still Doing It.

Posted 3 years ago #
puck
Member

My ears are violated.

Posted 3 years ago #
crossroad
Member

I don't think that one will make the CCM charts, good thing.

Posted 3 years ago #