RE: christian student objects

[Robert Herdegen]

At 10:31 AM 12/5/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>Michael Sylvester originally wrote:
>
>>>I have got that Jesus freak student in my class who objected to my
>>>asking the class to observe one minute of silence in memory
>>>of George Harrison. She said that she did not like the Beatles
>>>because they once proclaimed that they were more popular than Jesus.
>
>
>To which Paul Brandon opined:
>
>> I suspect that what really bothered her is that they were right.
>
>
>And to which Rod Hetzel now humorously comments:
>
>That might be true, Paul, but let's wait another 2,000 years to see if
>there are as many people then who know the name George Harrison as there
>are people today who know the name Jesus.
>
>Personally, I was more upset upon hearing the news that Frank Sinatra
>died than upon hearing about George Harrison. The Beatles were
>certainly great, but not as great as the Chairman of the Board.
>
>Rod

The irony of this, of course, is that Sinatra is reported to have said that Something, the Beatles song that Harrison penned, was the best love song written in the last 50 years. ('Course, I don't know exactly when he said it...) And exactly how many songs did the Chairman write?

And because all this was started by the reference to a "Jesus freak" by M. Sylvester (and I'm staying away from the question he posed so I don't inadvertently reinforce the behavior), it should be pointed out that it isn't necessarily a derogatory term. Originally the term referred to people embracing counter-culture values in the late '60s and early '70s, who wore long hair and beads and tie-dye shirts and talked about peace and love--commonly (and proudly) referred to by themselves and others as "freaks"--and who openly embraced and enthusiastically promoted Christianity; hence, Jesus freaks. But you know, the way it was used, in this case, certainly was derogatory.

Oops. I've gone ahead and reinforced the behavior just the same.

And now, since I have a hard time seeing just what the relevance to teaching this has (and I've been killing a little time that I shouldn't have been killing) I'm going to withdraw.

Cheers--

Bob


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Robert T. Herdegen III
Elliott Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943
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