CRN.Info and Analysis

This past several months, as I’ve perused Slice/CR?N/AM, a song I first heard my senior year in high school keeps popping back into my head. Neil has even referenced it a few times. So, to get it out of the internal repetitive radio station, I’m going to post the lyrics… It is from Steve Taylor’s ‘Meltdown’ album…

Guilty By Association

So you need a new car? let your fingers take a walk
through the business guide for the “born again” flock
you’ll be keeping all your money in the kingdom now
and you’ll only drink milk from a Christian cow
don’t you go casting your bread to keep the heathen well-fed
line Christian pockets instead–avoid temptation

guilty by association

Turn the radio on to a down-home drawl
hear a brylcream prophet with a message for y’all
“I have found a new utensil in the devil’s toolbox
and the heads are gonna roll if Jesus rocks
it’s a worldly design! God’s music should be divine!
try buying records like mine–avoid temptation”

guilty by association

So you say it’s of the devil and we’ve got no choice
because you heard a revelation from the “still small voice?”
if the Bible doesn’t back it then it seems quite clear
perhaps it was the devil who whispered in your ear

It’s a Telethon Tuesday for “The Gospel Club”
“send your money in now or they’re gonna pull the plug!”
just remember this fact when they plead and beg
When The Chicken Squawks Loudest Gonna Lay A Big Egg
you could be smelling a crook
you should be checking The Book
but you’d rather listen thank look–the implication

guilty by association

Have a great weekend!

A few folks have noted that I’ve been largely absent from a number of conversations recently and that my writing on Fishing has slowed of late.  With the end of the school year concluding with my son Phoenix’s graduation, the Lyons household has become rather - busy - of late.  My lunchtimes (in which I catch up on reading/writing) have also been squeezed due to my work schedule (which is cyclicly high right now), as well.

I will be out of town from next Wednesday through the 24th, taking Phoenix on a father/son camping trip up the US west coast, but I believe that CRN.Info is in the most capable of hands with Nathan, Neil, Joe, JohnD and Matt - who all have the capability to moderate comments and defend Christian brothers and sisters from internal attacks in my absence.

With that said, I must have been asleep at the wheel last weekend to have missed an EXCELLENT article from our friends at VerumSerum on Ingrid’s radio station’s decision to dump Chuck Swindoll from their lineup.  Give A Prude By Any Other Name…Still Sounds Like a Pharisee! a read. 

Here’s a sample:

Back in November of 2000, Swindoll seems to have stepped into it by discussing “The Lion King.” Ingrid prefaces VCY American’s objection by saying:

Christian broadcasters all over the country were giving warnings regarding the homosexual promotion such as gay days, gay-friendly issues and other depraved issues being promoted by Disney. While this boycott was going on, Insight For Living took another position. The November 20, 2000 IFL program promoted “The Lion King” (produced by Disney) using it as an illustration. Chuck Swindoll stated on this broadcast.

On this day, Swindoll said:

“Now I could ruin the rest of the story for you, but rather than doing that, I’ll urge you to go down to your local video store and rent for yourself, ‘The Lion King’”.

Regarding this, Ingrid said: At that time VCY addressed concern to IFL pointing out that researchers who reviewed this movie stated that the one who anoints Simba as king, was Rafiki, who happens to be a witch doctor. Rafiki carries his magical pack on the top of his staff. Viewers are taught throughout the movie that you can align yourself with witchcraft to overcome evil. It is also pointed out that the movie promotes talking to the dead (necromancy).

(My thought-It’s a CHILDREN’S MOVIE!!! Ingrid must be LOADS of fun as a mom.)

My thoughts exactly!