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Community => Religion and Philosophy => Topic started by: TheL on January 20, 2012, 09:51:09 pm
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Courtesy of StuffFundiesLike. (http://www.stufffundieslike.com/2012/01/sunday-school-catechism/)
You don't realize just how many annoying earworms you learned as a kid in Sunday School until you see a list like that. And now "Rise and Shine" is stuck in my heady, heady.
So. Use of catchy tunes to indoctrinate children. Discuss.
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I think the Angry Video Game Nerd reviewed a bunch of Bible games once. One had a "singalong" part to it, and one of the songs was called "Moses and Me." (The album art also featured the song title graffitied on a wall.)
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I must not have gotten to the "singalong" part of the review. All I remember is "You forgot Baby Moses!"
Also, I still know all the words to "Awesome God," including the hand movements.
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While it is indoctrination, I see it as no more harmful than the political kind. "Rise and Shine" doesn't strike me as any worse than "My Country Tis of Thee". And sometimes they teach friendly messages. "Jesus loves the little children" told us that Jesus loved everyone. "Red and yellow, black or white, they are precious in his sight." and could be used as a means to teach against racism if you were so inclined.
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Gah now Rise and Shine's back in my head damn you.
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Noooooo! Great, now Rise And Shine is going to be stuck in my head for who knows how long.
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Fun activity. When singing hymms, whenever you're supposed to sing the word "heart", replace it with "arse". I discovered that little trick back when I went to a catholic primary school. The results can be positively hysterical.
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Fun activity. When singing hymms, whenever you're supposed to sing the word "heart", replace it with "arse". I discovered that little trick back when I went to a catholic primary school. The results can be positively hysterical.
At my school it was dog and God.
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Jesus loves me this I know because the Bible tells me sooooo.
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Eurgh. My mom used to sing "Rise and Shine" as loudly as she could to annoy us out of bed in the morning.
Well, good news. "Mistletoe" is finally out of my head, now it's just replaced with that damn song.
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I actually do not remember a fucking thing about that song. The only one I really know is 'Jesus loves me'. As I told L in another thread I have forgotten a lot of things about my time, except for flashes of CCD classrooms and the Jesus song and my First Communion.
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I remember "Rise and Shine". Now I'm trying to think of some better songs from Sunday school.
Ah. Now I have "Mi Chamocha" stuck in my head. Much better.
Mi chamocha ba-elim Adonai!
Mi kamocha ne-edar ba-kodesh!
Norah tehilot oseh feleh
Norah tehilot oseh feleh...
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I actually do not remember a fucking thing about that song. The only one I really know is 'Jesus loves me'. As I told L in another thread I have forgotten a lot of things about my time, except for flashes of CCD classrooms and the Jesus song and my First Communion.
Good, then you've forgotten all about Father Abraham and his many sons. RIGHT ARM! LEFT ARM! RIGHT FOOT! LEFT FOOT! NOD YOUR HEAD!
...Sorry, conditioned response.
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...You put a totally different song in my head (and I don't know how) and now I'll have to
sex you uh kill you no... Make other people suffer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMTNT_BzkdA
Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
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I would love to know how "Father Abraham" turned into "Day-O" in your mind.
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I'd like to know what's wrong with a little Harry Belafonte.
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Fun activity. When singing hymms, whenever you're supposed to sing the word "heart", replace it with "arse". I discovered that little trick back when I went to a catholic primary school. The results can be positively hysterical.
...so I'm supposed to accept Jesus into my arse? I guess this is a different "personal relationship with Christ" than I thought I was getting.
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Fun activity. When singing hymms, whenever you're supposed to sing the word "heart", replace it with "arse". I discovered that little trick back when I went to a catholic primary school. The results can be positively hysterical.
...so I'm supposed to accept Jesus into my arse? I guess this is a different "personal relationship with Christ" than I thought I was getting.
Yes. Open your arse to God, so that he may fill it with love.
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I would love to know how "Father Abraham" turned into "Day-O" in your mind.
You have known me for three years and this is the one thing that surprises you in that time. I have arrived.
If it helps, it was the foot thing. :P
As for what's wrong with Belafonte. Nothing. Until you end up singing it before you fall asleep for a nap.
And now I have 'Jesus Loves Me' in my head. For no reason whatsoever because nothing triggered it. So. Y'know. I'm not normal.
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I'd like to know what's wrong with a little Harry Belafonte.
Nothing. I love that song more than anyone should. But I'm not sure how it relates to "Father Abraham."
ETA: Never, NEVER look up "Father Abraham" on YouTube. There are way too many videos for that song. It isn't even the best Sunday School song--all it says is "Father Abraham had a shitton of descendants, kids."
Or rather:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-TY8iISdn8
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I vaguely remember that song now. I don't think I want to.
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I vaguely remember that song now. I don't think I want to.
Here, I'll get it out of your head.
I am a C
I am a C-H...
The rain came down and the floods came up,
The rain came down and the floods came up...
So walk it, and talk it, and live it, and give it, and know it, and show it...
Zacchaeus was a wee little man, and a wee little man was he...
When I get to Heaven gonna put on my ro-obe,
Gonna shout all over God's Heaven, Heaven, Heaven...
Children of the Lo-ord. ;D
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Only "the rain came down" and "Children of the Lo-ord" ring any bells, but I can't remember any more to them.
You know the chant that goes "oh you'll never get to heaven, on a jumbo jet" (replace mode of transport to whatever random stuff people come up with).
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Only "the rain came down" and "Children of the Lo-ord" ring any bells, but I can't remember any more to them.
You know the chant that goes "oh you'll never get to heaven, on a jumbo jet" (replace mode of transport to whatever random stuff people come up with).
No, but I know that Jesus, then Others, then You is a wonderful way to spell "joy."
At least, for some of us.
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You are making my head ache with all these Sunday School songs.
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You are making my head ache with all these Sunday School songs.
Permission to drag her over to the re-conditioning box boo-box time out corner, Shane?
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Nah, it's alright. Let her get it out. It's therapeutic.
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I remember "Rise and Shine". Now I'm trying to think of some better songs from Sunday school.
Ah. Now I have "Mi Chamocha" stuck in my head. Much better.
Mi chamocha ba-elim Adonai!
Mi kamocha ne-edar ba-kodesh!
Norah tehilot oseh feleh
Norah tehilot oseh feleh...
Ah, now those seem like ancient memories to me...