It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
alot of you have heard me rail against this one, so I wont go into too much detail. Basically, the biggest problem I have with this song is the fact that it mentions so many nice, holiday things until BAM! Scary ghost stories comes out of nowhere! I dont know what crazy household the writer lived in, but Ive never heard of a Christmas tradition that begins with "caroling out in the snow" and ending with "scary ghost stories." Am I the only one who finds that strange?
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
the biggest problem I have with this one is the false caring involved. The song begins with happy feelings of giving, wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. However, little do you realize that their greedy lust for "figgy pudding" is right around the corner. Soon into the song, you realize that they never were wishing you a merry Christmas, they were just buttering you up so they can get their pudding. Why cant they just be greedy to begin with instead of pretending to be nice so they can get food? The little twerps.
Here Comes Santa Clause
This is another song I have had a problem with for many years. Mostly the lyric I have trouble with is "Lets give thanks to the Lord above cause Santa Clause is coming to town." Now lets really think about this hard. Belief in Santa most always entails belief in some form of magic, which is the reason he makes animals fly and gives 6 billion people presents in a mere 8 hour period. So, since this song is giving thanks to God, it would be assumed that they are talking about the Christian God of the Bible. Well, in the Bible, any "magic" other than a miracle by God would be black magic or demonic. So, if you couple both the beliefs of magic sleighs and God, like in the song, then you get Santa, the sorcerer of the North. Now why on earth would you thank God for Santa the sorcerer coming to your town? Wouldnt you instead be running away? If a fur clad magician with reindeer were coming to my town, I would be getting in the bomb shelter.
Away In a Manger
I dont exactly have as big a problem with this one, but there is still something small I cant exactly accept in this song. We we're singing it in church today, and I realized that one of the lyrics was the following:
The cattle are lowing
The poor Baby wakes
But little Lord Jesus
No crying He makes
Alright, anyone who has had or lived with a baby can see what is wrong with this stanza right here. One of the basic tenets of theology about Jesus was that he was fully God and fully man. In the same respect, he was fully God and fully baby. And this is the way God made babies: THEY CRY. ALOT. Especially when there born in a cold barn and then plopped down into some hay.Thats all.
~Jared
4 comments:
Best post ever.
Your analysis of We Wish You A Merry Christmas made me laugh out loud for real.
so, LOL!!!!!
hahahaha, agreeing with Bradley, i literally laughed out loud at the "we wish you a merry christmas" analysis.
brief story to explain my laughter:
a year or so ago, when we did a madrigal for our christmas play, one of the songs that we, as a chorus, had to sing was this song. When we got to the "bring us figgy pudding line" the sopranos had a ridiculously high and annoying line that only said "figgy pudding, figgy pudding, figgy pudding, right here."(getting progressively louder) and we would always crack up in the middle of singing. So we all brought in plastic forks and when we sang our line we made these really evil faces. Never got very far in practice, but it was funny. *end of story* ur entry brought that memory rushing back, thus i exploded with laughter upon the reading of it.
hey jared, this is elizabeth from firespark! '06... my littie brother and i thoroughly enjoyed this post. merry christmas!
The larger problem with baby Jesus not crying is that babys have to cry when they are born, to get all of the weird crud in their throats out. That's why doctors always spank babies after they are born. So if Jesus didn't cry, he would be dead.
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