[HANASHIR:14718] Re: secular music

[Ruth Levenstein <RuthEllen...>]

> As for "Imagine", I just don't get it.  I'm sorry.  I'm not being 
> stubborn.  I don't understand how, in a Jewish setting, we can express 
> our hope for "no religion".


As an aside.  When I was a teenager our youth group designed a musical 
service and one of the songs we included was 'imagine' with the verse 
about 'no religion' left out.  So as teenagers we felt that the song 
expressed deep spiritual truths appropriate for a religious service. 
When we were asked to perform our service at another congregation we got 
more gutsy and put the 'no religion' verse back in.

(BTW I was a Lutheran teenager, not a Jewish teenager.)



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