'Praise the Lord' - Hill$ong Celebrates the National Day of Secularism
National Day of Secularism May the 26th"Praise the Lord" - Hill$ong Parody - Brought to you by "The Chaser's War on Everything"
Introduction: - " Ladies and Gentlemen in the name of the father, the son and the holy spirit let me hear you say "A - men." Let me hear you say "Praise the lord." Let me hear you say "I will empty the contents of my wallet into that little collection plate when it comes around. And it's all Tax free! Hallelujah! "
Lyrics: -
"Praise the lord for all the cash I've got. Praise him for my Rolls Royce and my yacht.
Serving god ain't hard with a credit card. Jesus died so I could make a lot.
Praise the lord he's made us millionaires. Wave your donations in the air.
We've replaced our hymns with ATMS. And soon we'll charge a fee on every prayer.
Jesus Christ was a poor man don't you know. He should have used our accountants for his cash flow.
Stop the sermon on the mount he should have had a bank account.
Two thousand years with interest he'd be rolling in the dough.
Praise the lord this song's out on CD just $40.95 plus GST.
Hallelujah plenty of moolah. Solid gold baubles on my christmas tree.
I've got all of heaven's riches thanks to all you stupid b*tches.
Praise the lord for modern christianity. Whoever said religion should be free."
~*~
Hillsong Church (formerly Hills Christian Life Centre) is a Pentecostal Christian church. Its primary location is in Australia where it is headquartered at its "Hills" campus near Castle Hill, to the north-west of Sydney in Baulkham Hills' Norwest Business Park.
The Hillsong Church has attracted support from high profile politicians, especially from the conservative Liberal Party of Australia. The Prime Minister, John Howard, opened its Baulkham Hills campus and the Federal Treasurer, Peter Costello, spoke at its annual conferences in July 2004 and 2005. Mark Latham, the former Leader of the Opposition, declined Hillsong's invitation to the 2004 conference, although Bob Carr, the then Premier of New South Wales, (from the Australian Labor Party), did attend the 2005 conference. The former New South Wales Liberal Party state director, Scott Morrison (to November 2004), is a prominent member of Hillsong Church.
The Anglican Bishop of Western Sydney, Ivan Lee, has expressed concern that the extreme emotion of Hillsong services could be manipulative and said that "... their worship is in danger of being experience-centred rather than Bible teaching-centred".
Of course it is manipulative. It wants people to have an emotional experience, which will encourage them to part with their cash.
In the Australian Constitution - Section 116 - (Commonwealth not to legislate in respect of religion), it states that: - "The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust under the Commonwealth."
Unfortunately, the constitution doesn't say - "And no politician will kiss the arse of corporate religion in order to gain a few more votes."
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posted by beepbeepitsme | 11:23 pm
13 Comments:
Drive capitalism from the Earth, and God from the sky.
You should give credit to The Chaser's War on Everything team.
renegade
I wouldn't go that far. ;) But I do find the idea of religion as a saleable product to be trashy. If religionists want to treat religion as a product to be sold to the community at a price, then they need to be treated like any other product and be subject to marketting and advertising laws.
lexcen
Yeah, I forgot to do that. I will add a link now.
Nice one Beep. Those guys are brilliant...:)
It's a shame that our constitution only stops the commonwealth from meddling in religious affairs and not the other way around.
plonka
Good point. Religious organizations seem to think it is ok for them to meddle in government AND they demand that government fund their religious corporations as well.
AND they demand that government fund their religious corporations as well
And let's not forget that they also demand to be able to do it all tax free.
It's a shame that our constitution only stops the commonwealth from meddling in religious affairs and not the other way around.
Too few of us realise this.
arthur
Good point. I hadn't read that before. That is truly scary. It is an open door to rampant religious fundamentalism.
I could never get sick of seeing the Chaser boys doing that one.
Of course, If I got myself some broadband, I wouldn't have to spend all day waiting to see it.
dikki
Yeah. Youtube isn't very enjoyable without broadband.
So your Liberal Party is conservative? Obviously, "liberal" means something different there. Here in the USA, liberal and conservative have opposite meanings.
Maybe I should get back on the Jesus bandwagon. I really need money, and cars, and... stuff (plenty of moolah)
blueberry
Yes, the name of the conservative party is The Liberal Party. This is one reason why we don't hear the conservative propaganda of how the "liberals" are all terrible people who take drugs and watch porn. (Or whatever stupid stuff conservatives say about liberals.)
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