"Well just belay that 'we,' [Gr]Ace."

[Laura]

It's a song about finding Jesus, which speaks nothing to me as an atheist Jew. And it's always performed in a drawn-out, sanctimonious solo that commands applause, no matter how poorly it's performed.

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"Krafft, John M." <krafftjm at miamioh.edu> wrote:

>Pardon me, but what drivel! "AG" doesn't speak to _this_ unbeliever:
>its groveling slave morality makes me angry.
>
>John
>
>On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Joseph Tracy  wrote:
>
>> ... A hymn like amazing grace transcends theology and speaks to inner liberation, mercy, and a happier future in such a way that it speaks  as powerfully to the unbeliever and those of non western faith as it does to the believer, so that we see it taken up and embraced beyond its Christian origins.
>...
>-
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