Except in Canada, where singing is like praying 1.6 times.
What the hell is that sign supposed to mean?
"SUMMER & FALL. SIGN UP NOW!"
submitted AND reviewed by frequent contributor David Jacks, TX
I don't think I'm going to sign up for summer this year. It's just too hot.
Joel's Note: "Autumn changed into Winter ... Winter changed into Spring ... Spring changed back into Autumn and Autumn gave Winter and Spring a miss and went straight on into Summer ... Until one day ..."
"One destination, many paths."
I didn't realize we had changed our destination to "hell".
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Humor-blogs.com is like praying twice.
Keep 'em coming.
Actually, it's a bad paraphrase of a quote from Augustine: "He who sings well, prays twice." I'm not sure what that means either, but I think it has something to do with how the harmonies of music reflect the beauties of heaven. Or something. I know this because the quote was a favorite of my elementary school music teacher (that poor, tormented soul).
ReplyDeleteLoved the review, though. Hilarious.
Well, shucks. I like Augustine. Now I feel bad.
ReplyDeleteOh well.
Just popped in from Diesel's. Your blog makes me look at religion in a whole new way. You've got some great signs here.
ReplyDeleteOh God! Theresa! NOOO! He changed his destination to hell. It won't end well.
ReplyDeleteha ha!
Even Augustine would think that sign sucked.
They must mean that singing is like praying twice because of the refrains. I know if I were God (I am, however, not)that this is what I would think the sign meant.
ReplyDeleteAnd let this be a sign unto this generation.
If it makes you feel better, it turns out that Augustine didn't actually say that--just something much more abstruse to a similar effect (http://wdtprs.com/blog/2006/02/20/--Thanks, Google!).
ReplyDeleteSo in essence the sign is saying, "Get your praying done in half the time so you can move on to more important things!"
ReplyDeleteAutumn changed into winter, winter changed into spring, spring changed back into autumn and autumn gave winter and spring a miss and went straight on into summer, until one day...
ReplyDelete...God destroyed all these signs in a fiery blaze, and there was much rejoicing.
The first quote from St. Augustine is, as said, a bad translation. Here's some better info from a real theologian:
ReplyDeleteQui enim cantat laudem, non solum laudat, sed etiam hilariter laudat; qui cantat laudem, non solum cantat, sed et amat eum quem cantat. In laude confitentis est praedicatio, in cantico amantis affectio...For he who sings praise, does not only praise, but also praises joyfully; he who sings praise, not only sings, but also loves Him whom he is singing about/to/for. There is a praise-filled public proclamation (praedicatio) in the praise of someone who is confessing/acknowledging (God), in the song of the lover (there is) love.
This is a very interesting passage. Augustine is saying that when the praise is of God, then something happens to the song of the praiser/love that makes it more than just any kind of song. The object of the song/love in a way becomes the subject. Something happens so that the song itself becomes Love in its manifestation of love of the one who truly is Love itself.
However,... it does not say qui canit bis orat. There seems to have been some confusion of the verbs laudare and orare.
I can still say with the oft quoted citation: "He who sings well prays twice", so long as it is from love.
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2006/02/20/
I applaud the sentiment expressed even from the bad translation, though, because what it is indicating is firs, that the vocal praise of God is a gift from God Himself, and the secondary gift of music raised in praise to him is also a gift. Singing, then, well done, is praise twice offered in the same action, all for the glory of God and not for the glory of the singer, who is the very creation of the One whom is praised.
Hope that helps. We won't ever be able to quash the bad translation, but we sure can do a lot to live up to it!
I always heard "Singing is like praying double."
ReplyDeleteI like the last one best. Didn't they learn in Sunday School that there is only one path to heaven? Because I certainly heard that a lot. Well, that and the story about how my Sunday School teacher got trapped under a tractor, but God saved her. (I wish I were kidding.)