In a message dated 6/28/01 10:59:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< further to the discussion about who Joni meant when she sang: with
heaven full of astronauts and the Lord on Death row' which some people
took to be a reference to Manson. I was listening to C&S in the car on a
beautiful trip to a house in the deep country. Anyway, the next line
says'while millions of His lost and lonely ones call and clamor to be
found'.(or something very similar. this confirms for me that my always
believing she meant God is accurate. Unless Manson has millions of
follers I haven't heard about.
>>
Colin,
I think you're looking at it too literally, or too narrowly.
Weren't Manson's followers "lost and lonely ones"?
In her reference, they represent in a sense the millions of others who were
lost and lonely, though certainly not all the lost and lonely ones were
Manson followers, but many of the lost and lonely ones turned to one cult or
another during that period, possibly because of dissatisfaction with
established religion and the feeling that God had abandoned them.
Paul I
