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| Depeche Mode – Blasphemous Rumours Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Radical347: "Sorry, Depeche Mode has made some great music but they're so wrong here. Do you really think that just because you believe in God (or whatever other name you want to call your higher power), you'll automatically be safe from all harm?" Way to miss the point of the song. They are most definately NOT saying that because you believe in God you'll automatically be safe. They are pointing out the opposite and trying to understand why, seeing as the bible often speaks of God as 'protector' etc etc, do such awful things happenn to believers and non-believers a like. They're calling God out when actions don't match words. p.s. there are certainly a lot of morons who believe in God who go round messing up other people's lives. It's not an agnostic specific trait. |
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| Ben Folds – Adelaide Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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dear dumbblondechick: 1. I went to a private school and am anything but stuck up. Colour your hair and stop perpetuating stereotypes. 2. Snowtown happened and it's invariably linked with Adelaide. Get over it!! Did you hear the most recent piece of information about the murders? Turns out there was some cannibalism involved! To everyone else: 1. Have you not considered that Adelaide is a vastly different place, demographic and lifestyle wise to Ben Folds previous residence. Not as busy, a little more insular - as many Australian towns and cities are! Perhaps one of the reasons he wrote the song... 2. You should have worked out by now that many of Ben Fold's songs need to be taken with a grain of salt. This applies especially to those who are all butt hurt thinking that Fold's is dissing their hood. |
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| Depeche Mode – Blasphemous Rumours Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Dear Marcel Dwayne, It appears intellect is the one thing you sadly don't have. There are very few people who can rightly claim to be atheist. Those people are the ones who have read and understood Hawking's 'A Brief history of time.' Until then we'll file you under agnostic shall we? It appears that you didn't research Christianity very broadly at all. There are certainly some churches who prey off emotion but the many I've involved myself with over the years are all about logical realities and what not. Stop painting pictures of Christians as ignorant people who act soley on, and are slaves to, their emotions. I look at this song as a way of attempting to understand the age old question 'Why do bad things happen to good person.' [and reverse - why do good things happen to bad people.] The girl attempting suicide can be seen as 'bad' from the standpoint that she was bored with life, an entirely selfish reason to want to kill yourself. Yet somehow she's saved. Rock on to a few years later and she's turned her life around, accepted God and is viewed as a 'good' person, yet her life is cut short then. Why? There's no clear and easy answer for it and I think everyone has their ideas, the lyrics in this song being one of those. And Marcel Dwayne, you can no more prove God doesn't exist than I can prove he does. It's a catch-22 I'll admit but just because you don't believe in God doesn't mean others can't, and your opinion on this matter makes you no better or worse than anyone else. Whatever their opinion may be. |
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