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lindysalsagal

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Mon Dec 20, 2021, 05:34 PM Dec 2021

In carol season: The lord's prayer is just begging for food and money. Analysis: [View all]

I'm hearing all the carols, and this one arrives as a epiphany:

Boiled down from the flowery king-jamesey ruffles, it's only 3 things:

1. The sucking-up: "our lord who art in heaven, hallowed blah blah blah....thy will, blah blah."
2. The begging: "daily bread, forgiveness of debts, and other people's debt to us.
3. sex, fear (the evil crap)
4. Final sucking-up.

But, of course, it's dressed up in silken finery, with ethereal strings and bliss-inducing harmonies, carried on world-class voices and instruments, making it out to be something totally profound. Instead, when you think about it: hunger, fear, horny.

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