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Christians love the song Amazing Grace, but has anyone really listened to the demeaning words in it? In particular, the word that angers me the most is "wretch". How is this a loving song? I think it's humiliating! The whole idea is to keep people believing they're just worthless turds floating in a sea of shit.

DarwinistOne 7 Mar 27
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When we've been dead ten thousand years, bright shining as the sun.... ahahaha

Lauxa Level 5 Mar 28, 2018
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The writer of that song was a slave ship captain. He truly felt wretched about horible acts he commited in the course of his duties` That is the whole point of the song. Seems reasonable to me.

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You do know it is an autobiography?

No, I didn't! Care to elaborate?

@Claudia the author was a slaver. He captained a slave ship delivering slaves africa. He was also an alcoholic and frequented prostitutes. Then he got . If you know the words you can see that he is talking about himself and how he turned his life around. He uses words like wretch to describe how he sees his former self.

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It is Masochistic and entirely fitting for fear-based ideologies of any kind, not just theologies. It is inspiring to herds that view others as their leaders and betters in possession of superior knowledge and judgment. It is the consumate dependency song.

Funny, that label just reminded me of a dear friend, with the cutest sense of humor who called 'My Way' the 'Depends song'. I thought of it more as the Testosterone Song and have avoided performing it for that reason. The idea of wearing a large depends over my slacks and doing it with sight gags is reallly tempting though. 🙂

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Of course. Most abusive relationships are based on the individual with power demeaning the subservient partner. Religion is the same, but on a grander scale.

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