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Holly Near wrote the song "We Are A Gentle Angry People", anthem of the GLBTQ movement, among many other significant songs from the 70's and 80's. Gentle Angry People was written for the candlelight vigil when Harvey Milk and George Moscone were assassinated in San Francisco.
@christallh24 I'm Jewish, and I think the song is great, as well. There is something good here for kind people of all religions as well as atheists or agnostics. Religion itself is neither good nor bad. It's what people do in the name of their religion. When religion inspires people to do good things, religion is good. When people use religion to justify doing terrible things, that's an abuse of religion. And, there are many good people, doing good things, without the need for religion.
@joshuagoboom You misread what I wrote. I said there are MORE female Jewish Conservative rabbis entering the rabbinate than there are men. The "laws" you stated simply reflect your misunderstanding of Jewish laws. I don't know much about Christian law. I don't pretend to. I know a little about Jewish law, but I don't pretend to be an expert.. However, what little I know is infinitely more than what you know. The more you try to speak to Jewish law, the more you show your lack of knowledge.
@paulbark 50 silver and he "must" be married. learn to realize that it doesn't state anything about what the woman wants. cause in your good holy book women are properties thus her opinion about doesnt matter. you're again interpreting your gods words. & it's you're not doing tht good at it either. how the hell can you possibly think that a rapist would "take care" of a woman he savagely raped? your morallity is amazing.
@joshuagoboom The point is to obligate the rapist to provide for her for rest of her life, if that's what either the victim or her father wants. Maybe it's a very poor family, and the rapist is a wealthy man. Since either the girl or her father can decide not to do that, what's the harm? Would would you do? Let the rapist go scott free? At least Jewish law makes the rapist pay a fine and possibly have to take care of the victim for the rest of her life.
@joshuagoboom Jewish law is designed to be interpreted. No Jewish scholars say to take the word of Torah literally. None. Do you even know what Talmud is? If you did, you would know what I mean. The more you post, the more your ignorance of Jewish law is made obvious. You can't conceive of a non-fundamentalist religion. You have a simple, childish understanding of religion. Thinking people, thinking rabbinical scholars have interpreted, and will continue to interpret scripture.
@joshuagoboom As I said, anyone can look at scripture and find justification for killing. That's true for every religion. I don't reject scripture. I reject those who interpret scripture as telling them to kill. Religion, in and of itself, is neither good nor bad. Judge people based on their behavior, not based on what religion they claim to be or claim to act in the name of. Someone who kills in the name of religion does a disservice to the religion, be it Jewish, Christian, Muslim, etc..
@noirkitten I don't know how self-riighteous being happy is, but hey, if that's how you see it, okay. I was actually FAR more self-righteous when I was a punk. All that antiestabilshment hoo-ha, don't ya know. Who's Rubin? I don't drink soft drinks except for a bit of Coke with my whiskey, so I am not familiar with all the pop culture refreshments. The money IS better, but I'm also an adult. Generally, adults make more money than teens.
@paulbark yes but that doesn't mean that god is real. and i never said talmud was something that was made recently. nor would it matter. because talmud will still be a symbol of how much of a failure your religion is. a so called omnipotent god who couldn't stop his slaves from misintepreting his cruel commands?
@noirkitten I don't see how gymnastics makes one clot better, but all righty then. I'll even let you take the first swing.....mind you, I'll probably dodge it, but years of gymnastics AND rodeo made me quick like that. Be warned, there is no such thing as a fair fight. No, it's not a standard definition. Just one my friends and I came up with. We have free time.
@joshuagoboom The Talmud is not something put in place by "Jews today." Reinterpretation of Jewish law is in the nature of Jewish law. Failure to do so would be a violation of Jewish law. By the way, it's not "my" God. There is but one God. All who believe in one God believe in the same God.
@joshuagoboom ...it tells us we should just ignore it because jews don't act on them". your holy book is very clear on it's commands and how life works and how it started. now, tell me mr. interpreter, please explain how you would interpret Deuteronomy 22:28-29??
Holly wrote this song in 2000, before 9/11. How appropriate today, with all the fearmongering about Muslims. Holly Near was before her time! Don't fear religion. Fear what people do in the name of religion. Great, great observation. And Roy....you do this great song honor. Thank you for posting.
@noirkitten You should smoke a joint. It's not that crucial. You seem really bitter and angry about hippies and it's sort of sad. They've not done anything to harm you. (Steve Jobs isn't a hippie....too corporate) Oh, and it's "hippie". "Hippy" refers to someone with wide hips.
@noirkitten Didn't work, did it? As a former punk and current hippie, I can only say that the peace and love was much more entertaining and enjoyable than all the anger and destruction.
@noirkitten Oh, so one must be emersed in the media to be a hippie? Who said you get to define it? I'm not a tofu hippie. I'm a natural living, grow you own hippie.
And all this whitout Studio and music "industry" .. more pls. I think best is failure and how it is been resolved so that singing continues and it has something new in it.
@tarni2222 yeah, whyyyyyyyy record deal with the wrong company? not self-publishing? it's so annoying having to tell the youtube servers that I'm from Trinidad ;)
@bestvalue "I ain't afraid of your Hitler," If only most historians wouldn't agree he was a Christian I wouldn't really mind you writing that all that much.
@noirkitten No, I'm the only one who fits that definition. The rest have their own little amalgamation. And we have free time because we don't watch TV.
Catchy, soulful, and meaningful-- I LOVE this song. Great job guys :D And if there's any chance you'd post chords/tab; it'd be greatly appreciated, because I know I for one would love to be able to play it
