Lindsey Stirling Video - Hallelujah

This is lovely, Lindsey Stirling is one of my favourite artists. I actually emailed her publisher to invite her to Steemit back when we were inviting celebs. I offered them a crowdfunded billboard co-brand while billboards were still able to be funded on a single post, no reply back unfortunately.

I think however if we could onboard an entire church on Steemit to host their sermons live via an embedded streaming video and have their congregation powerup and vote on the post as fundraising for outreach projects that could be interesting. Even for Christian political parties to stage a campaign from. Targeting groups is more efficient than targeting individuals.

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angels (56) · 8 years ago

That sounds like an awesome idea, it's so easy to get discouraged here.

Thank you for your positive reply :-)

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liondani (69) · 8 years ago

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liondani (69) · 8 years ago

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angels (56) · 8 years ago

Thank you for sharing, this is another beautiful piece for sure..

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sneak (64) · 8 years ago (edited)

The man who wrote this song was a jew. This cannot accurately be described as as christian song.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen#Religious_beliefs_and_practices

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bible (53) · 8 years ago

It doesn't matter who that wrote but what he wrote

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angels (56) · 8 years ago

My dear frieend @sneak

I do not know if English is your first language, I had not described the song at all. Thanks for the information and I hope it has lifted your Spirits this morning.

Blessings.

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sneak (64) · 8 years ago (edited)

The first tag on this post is "christianity" and there's a big jesus/cross thing at the bottom.

I collect covers of this song (Rufus, John Cale, Jeff Buckley, et al) and I've seen it performed live twice by Mr. Cohen himself. It makes me a bit sad to see it co-opted to promote such a destructive religion, and especially one that it is not affiliated with.

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angels (56) · 8 years ago

This is a very disturbing comment.

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anotherjoe (66) · 8 years ago

Did you seriously say that? You seem to be swinging wide today, playing the role of tag police, religion police and spam police. Is this your new position in Steemit?

Christianity claims to be the logical culmination of Judaism. It offers peace and love in return for persecution and hate.

Cohen's song reveals massive confusion regarding David, Samson and the teaching of Moses. But there is a "realness" in his song that most of us can relate to. There is even a sense of confusion that it carries that resonates with us all, even while praising YHWH.

FWIW, the song has been "christianized" by artists as well, so presenting it as a Christian song is not disingenuous. Not affiliated with? The Torah is as much a part of Christianity as the New Covenant is. Do you know who the single greatest demographic of Israel supporters in the US is? Cohen himself commented on Jesus:

I’m very fond of Jesus Christ. He may be the most beautiful guy who walked the face of this earth. Any guy who says “Blessed are the poor. Blessed are the meek” has got to be a figure of unparallelled generosity and insight and madness…A man who declared himself to stand among the thieves, the prostitutes and the homeless. His position cannot be comprehended. It is an inhuman generosity. A generosity that would overthrow the world if it was embraced because nothing would weather that compassion. I’m not trying to alter the Jewish view of Jesus Christ. But to me, in spite of what I know about the history of legal Christianity, the figure of the man has touched me.

This little girl and her classmates are dangerous?

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liondani (69) · 8 years ago

to promote such a destructive religion

Really? Christianity a destructive religion(!)?
That statement is the definition for RUDE... Insulting Christian members like that was not expected. Hope you take that back.

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sneak (64) · 8 years ago (edited)

The destruction wrought upon the people of Earth by monotheism throughout the centuries is well-documented elsewhere and is objective fact, and if you re-read my comment you will note that it says nothing whatsoever about individual practitioners of any religion, so I hope that you will reconsider being insulted.

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liondani (69) · 8 years ago

Ok I reconsider, if you make me the favour to watch this video ...

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liondani (69) · 8 years ago

Are you Christian @sneak?

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sneak (64) · 8 years ago

That's a rude question.

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liondani (69) · 8 years ago (edited)

rude? Why is that?

edit I just saw your edited comment above, so that explains it all! (Wow!)

I could only see this part...

The first tag on this post is "christianity" and there's a big jesus/cross thing at the bottom.

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angels (56) · 8 years ago

Oh I see, my friends had ask me to post it here.

If it is a problem with Steemit,Inc then we certainly need to know that.

Thank you.

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liondani (69) · 8 years ago

I am sure @dan and @ned will not have a problem with your post. I assume it was just a bad moment from their employe and he will be thinking more clear and openminded in the future. Keep posting without fear!

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sneak (64) · 8 years ago (edited)

I don't have a problem with his post either, other than the fact that it is mistagged. This is a song written by a jew with lyrics involving David and the God of Abraham, tagged "christianity". If I'd have had a problem with it, I would have flagged it, and I didn't.

To be clear, I rather love the song and this is a lovely version of it; I am glad @angels posted it.