“Jeremiah Blues,” in turn, lambasted the corruption and hypocrisy of the Catholic Church. The track included another Shakespearean reference in “something wicked this way comes,” for an elegantly dressed, violent, money-hungry world happily ticking down toward some form of apocalypse—a “midnight at noon.” (“And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day”—Amos 8:9.)
Ironically, just a year after the release of the song, Pope John Paul II finally publicly admitted that his Church had been wrong in their Inquisition’s persecution of Galileo for his contrary-to-the-Bible suggestion that the earth was not the center of the universe.
“A pope claimed that he’d been wrong in the past....”
[From Rock & Holy Rollers: The Spiritual Beliefs of Chart-Topping Rock Stars in Their Lives and Lyrics by Geoffrey D. Falk.]
“Jeremiah Blues,” in turn, lambasted the corruption and hypocrisy of the Catholic Church. The track included another Shakespearean reference in “something wicked this way comes,” for an elegantly dressed, violent, money-hungry world happily ticking down toward some form of apocalypse—a “midnight at noon.” (“And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day”—Amos 8:9.) Ironically, just a year after the release of the song, Pope John Paul II finally publicly admitted that his Church had been wrong in their Inquisition’s persecution of Galileo for his contrary-to-the-Bible suggestion that the earth was not the center of the universe. “A pope claimed that he’d been wrong in the past....”
[From Rock & Holy Rollers: The Spiritual Beliefs of Chart-Topping Rock Stars in Their Lives and Lyrics by Geoffrey D. Falk.]