Snarky Sermon on the Blog: God's In The Hizzle!

Remember when the holier-than-thou condemned Rock & Roll as Satanic? When they claimed that long hair and electric guitars were tickets to Hell... and then started pouring billions & billions into the Christian Rock Music Industry?

Well...

Hip-Hop Worshippers Hope to Spread the Rap

By Belinda Goldsmith
Reuters

NEW YORK - First came the hip-hop Mass, then a hip-hop prayer book, and now a group of hip-hop Christians are hoping to spread the word across the United States with a new CD that puts their service to music.

New York Episcopal priest the Rev. Timothy Holder, who goes by the rap name "Poppa T," created the HipHopEMass two years ago after an armed hostage situation at his South Bronx church made him focus on the neighborhood's younger generations.

Wait! There's More!

"I used to think hip-hop was hateful," he said. "But hip-hip really is a culture. It is about social change and justice. We're here to promote the love and strength you find in hip-hip, not the hate, misogyny and crime."

The success of his HipHopEMass services prompted him to pull together "The Hip Hop Prayer Book," with morning and evening prayers, psalms, Bible stories -- in hip-hop language.

For example instead of the 23rd Psalm "The Lord is my shepherd," his flock says: "The Lord is all that, I need for nothing, he allows me to chill."

Thus Endeth Today's Sermon.

Go forth today, knowing that the times, they are a-changin'... Again. Still.

I mean it, damn it!

Best bar bet in the world: Delilah didn't do it.
Judges 16:19-- And she made him (Samson) sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head.