PC Christmas at Church

[Ferrets]

When I was a kid I thought that Jesus died on the cross at Calgary (where I grewup) not Calvery.

I always mixed it up with Cavalry myself.

People need to get a hobby.  Sometime I think these things are changed by people who are afraid of offending anyone but forget to actaully find out if someone is really offended first.

POD.

[Calbrini]

While people are talking about getting words mixed up, I want to say that as a kid i sang the wrong words to Marys Boy child/oh my Lord by Boney M for years. I would sing "Oh my Lord, men playing cricket found him" instead of "then in the crib they found him". I had this weird image in my head of men playing cricket and then being told to go and see baby Jesus.

[Coruscation]

In college, the chaplain was big on changing all the Christmas carols to gendered neutral terms (he even made a speech about this during Lessons and Carols as explanation to everyone). People still sang the versions they knew while the choir and the chaplain sang loudly the new words (emphasizing the new gendered terms). He meant well, he really did.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions?

[ZipTheWonder]

When I was at baby massage we learned a rhyme similar to 'this little piggy went to market' to say tobaby when we were massaging their toes. The instructor told us they were not supposed to say the piggy song anymore!

Are the pigs taking offense at being compared to baby toes or are the toes taking offense at being compared to baby pigs?   

[MrsO]

Are the pigs taking offense at being compared to baby toes or are the toes taking offense at being compared to baby pigs?   

LOL!!! 

[Gyburc]

I can't remember where I read this or even if it is true, but it's funny nonetheless.

A church somewhere in the UK was said to have changed the first line of the hymn 'Dear Lord and Father of mankind' so that it now began:

'Dear Mother-Parent of person-kind'

Fortunately, they kept the second line intact:

'Forgive our foolish ways'.

 

[bms2000]

Its real, some schools in my hometown decided hot cross buns getting sold in the canteens at Easter may offend other religions too. A spokesman at the local Bangladeshi community association said it was silly and that he had never heard of anyone being offended by a hot cross bun.

Maybe the bun was hot and cross and said something he shouldn't have.

LOL. I suppose if I was sitting in a canteen right before lunch time... and I was on the menu...I would  be cross as well.

[Gambitgirl]

This kind of thing makes me want to cry.

new slogan : Political Correctness Make Jesus Cry! 

[Xallanthia]

I can't remember where I read this or even if it is true, but it's funny nonetheless.

A church somewhere in the UK was said to have changed the first line of the hymn 'Dear Lord and Father of mankind' so that it now began:

'Dear Mother-Parent of person-kind'

Fortunately, they kept the second line intact:

'Forgive our foolish ways'.

I don't care if it's true.  It's good I'd just put my tea down, or you would owe my job a new keyboard!

[Nannerdoman]

It's Christmas Carols night at Church tonight. And yet again they are going to sing all of the carols in a PC way.

So:
God Bless ye Merry Peoples All

Silent night, holy night,
All is calm, all is bright
Round Mary, Joseph and child. (can't say Virgin don't you know)


And in Hark the Herald Angels sing:
Offspring of the Blessed One (rather than Virgin's womb)
Pleased as man with us to dwell; (was "man to dwell")
Born that we no more may die, (rather than "man no more may die")

And this is just a small taste of it
Will I go to ehell if I just sing the normal versions?

The "new" Episcopal hymnal (1982) has this type of wording, although the Blessed Lady is still a virgin in our hymnal.  I always sing the "normal" versions (and I have a good, clear, carrying voice).  At 54, I can claim my age:  "That's how I learned it.  That's how I have it memorized."

[audhs]

When I was at baby massage we learned a rhyme similar to 'this little piggy went to market' to say tobaby when we were massaging their toes. The instructor told us they were not supposed to say the piggy song anymore!

Are the pigs taking offense at being compared to baby toes or are the toes taking offense at being compared to baby pigs?   

LOL. I read this post and was holding my 1 year old at the time with her beautiful bare toes and had to do the little piggy's after that.  Now she keeps coming to me and holding up her foot.    I hope I haven't doomed her to a life of unPCness. 

[Nannerdoman]

When I was at baby massage we learned a rhyme similar to 'this little piggy went to market' to say tobaby when we were massaging their toes. The instructor told us they were not supposed to say the piggy song anymore!

Are the pigs taking offense at being compared to baby toes or are the toes taking offense at being compared to baby pigs?   

LOL. I read this post and was holding my 1 year old at the time with her beautiful bare toes and had to do the little piggy's after that.  Now she keeps coming to me and holding up her foot.    I hope I haven't doomed her to a life of unPCness. 

Yeah, a little girl I've known since she was born kept going to my dad and demanding, "Do piggy!  Do piggy!"  They love that piggy thing . . .

[Brentwood]

It's Christmas Carols night at Church tonight. And yet again they are going to sing all of the carols in a PC way.

So:
God Bless ye Merry Peoples All

Silent night, holy night,
All is calm, all is bright
Round Mary, Joseph and child. (can't say Virgin don't you know)


And in Hark the Herald Angels sing:
Offspring of the Blessed One (rather than Virgin's womb)
Pleased as man with us to dwell; (was "man to dwell")
Born that we no more may die, (rather than "man no more may die")

And this is just a small taste of it
Will I go to ehell if I just sing the normal versions?

The "new" Episcopal hymnal (1982) has this type of wording, although the Blessed Lady is still a virgin in our hymnal.  I always sing the "normal" versions (and I have a good, clear, carrying voice).  At 54, I can claim my age:  "That's how I learned it.  That's how I have it memorized."

I do know that some versions of Hark! The Herald Angels Sing contain the line "Offspring of the favored one"; I've heard 50-year-old recordings using that version.