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Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View PostI'm not sure it isn't just expressing racism, in the form of permanent Christian supremacy as a God-given destiny, in a higher form of language than GSTQ does.
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- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
Originally posted by diggedy derek View Post“That’s Entertainment” is a tremendous shout for a British national anthem. “Lights going out and a kick in the balls…”. Such a great song that took years to click with me.
After I got the shit kicked out of me in a vicious street attack, I discussed it with a friend and asked what the hell five blokes got out of kicking someone laying on the ground in the head.
The name of the song was his reply.
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There are interesting discussion of the "satanic mills = established church" hypothesis here
https://literature.stackexchange.com...e-church-of-en
and here (starting at answer 2)
https://literature.stackexchange.com...akes-jerusalem
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The most obvious suggestion for a replacement National Anthem is “Land Down Under” for Australia. Yes, some more stuck up folk might object to one line of the chorus, and yes, one verse has some issues about promoting a commercial brand. But those are not good enough reasons to dismiss it. Nowhere near good enough, in fact.
This all remains the case despite the current anthem being one of the least objectionable ones.
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Originally posted by Janik View PostThe most obvious suggestion for a replacement National Anthem is “Land Down Under” for Australia. Yes, some more stuck up folk might object to one line of the chorus, and yes, one verse has some issues about promoting a commercial brand. But those are not good enough reasons to dismiss it. Nowhere near good enough, in fact.
This all remains the case despite the current anthem being one of the least objectionable ones.
To illustrate your point, it was played immediately after literally every Australian gold medal ceremony in the Commonwealth Athletics during Glasgow 2014.
My children were very disappointed that tradition wasn't continued in Birmingham last week.
Returning to 'Jerusalem', the only evidence I saw of any English gold medalists knowing the words were the Womens Hockey team but they did give it a particularly lusty rendition.
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Originally posted by Lang Spoon View Post
Ah please, that's a wild take. if Blake was a Christian he was of the Swedenborg type.
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