I am running out of songs. I guess I don't like as many Christmas songs as I thought I did. But all the Christmas cds came out of storage this weekend, so I'm sure more will come up.
"I Saw Three Ships" seems like a kids' song to me, but maybe it's because there are usually children singing it.
There are a lot of versions of this song, including one by Sting and Jon Anderson (of Yes). And that brings up a question: a lot of singers who I wouldn't expect believe in Christianity sing Christian Christmas songs. (Now that is a weird sentence and makes me wonder how there can be a nonChristian Christmas song.) Now maybe they are Christians - don't go calling Pharisee on me for questioning peoples' faith and all that. Somewhere, somehow I "heard" that singers will just sing a good song; it doesn't matter if they believe the words or not. So a musician might want to play violin or sing in Handel's Messiah because it's great music and they don't care about the words. I don't know how that could be true, but I can't say it's not.
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Having never seen American Idol, I didn't know about that. Yes, I would have a problem with it. I don't get that. I don't know how a person can sing a song of worship from a religion they don't believe in. But I just answered my own question - they don't believe in it, so it's just words. But then it's at the very least disrespectful and mocking.
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