[ SECRET POST #2901 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2901 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Legally Blonde]


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03.
[Mikey Way, My Chemical Romance]


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05. [ SPOILERS for American Horror Story: Murder House (season 1) ]



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06. [ SPOILERS for Into the Woods ]



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07. [ WARNING for non-con/rape ]



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08. [ WARNING for non-con/rape ]



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09. [ WARNING for genocide, etc ]



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10. [ WARNING for incest ]



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11. [ WARNING for abuse ]

[Begin Again]


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12. [ WARNING for suicide ]

[Starsky and Hutch]












Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #414.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I can't speak for every Jewish singer, but I'm an atheist and not remotely sympathetic to Christianity. But I genuinely like Christmas music. Well, at least a lot of the traditional carols and stuff. They're beautiful. I don't have to believe a story is true or has moral significance to enjoy singing pretty songs about the nativity.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm similar. Most of my favorite Christmas songs are super religious ones like O Holy Night, even though I don't remotely believe their messages. They're beautiful and dramatic and I like that.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Same. O Holy Night, Silent Night, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen... such amazing songs. If I could sing, and if I were famous, I'd happily make a Christmas album with those and other traditional carols. Doesn't mean I believe it, or am resentful of the oppressive regime of Christians or something crazy like tha.

[(Anonymous)]

Me too, I'm Buddhist, but there is no way I'm not listening to Christmas carols at Christmastime. They're gorgeous.

[kallanda_lee]

Yeah, totally the same.

And a Christmas carol =/= a prayer. It's no more untrue to me than singing a love song when you're not in love.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for that comparison. Because to me, a lot of these carols ARE prayers, which is why I have such dissonance when I KNOW the person singing the lines don't feel the same way about them. Comparing it to love songs actually helps me line it up a little more.

And yes, all of these replies are things I know and I know I'm being a patronising asshole and I know not everyone feels the same way, and there was a line in the secret about anyone having the right to a slice of the commercialism pie (these songs pay the bills), and... I know I'm irrational. I know I'm an asshole. I know there are all kinds of issues coming out of this secret.

All of that is why this is a secret.

Re: OP

[kallanda_lee]

You're not an asshole - I was just trying to give another perspective. That not all these people are "selling out" or have equally strong feeling about it as you do.

Re: OP

[arcadiaego]

I'm not a Christian but I feel the same way. I don't think people should stop singing them, I just don't know how they don't feel weird. I like them and *I* feel weird. :D