Mormon adjustment

Thursday  in the late afternoon  Mystie

I was just looking on iTunes for a version of “Holy, Holy, Holy” to help keep me in tune while singing with the boys. I began listening to the samples:

* Steven Curtis Chapman - I like his voice, I like the guitar, it doesn’t seem too altered to make it hip.

* Amy Grant - I like her voice, too, but the version is so slow that it seems more like she’s crooning.

* Mormon Tabernacle Choir - As I click on it I think, “hang on, they don’t even believe in the Trinity! Why are they singing this hymn?!” Then that part came and they sang: “God (perhaps I should adjust it to god?) in his glory, blessed be his name” — and in that syllable-protracting, vibrato, “majestic” choir sound that I couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

One vociferation follows:

  1. 2 days, 15 hours after the fact, Pat responded:

    It totally cracks me up how mormons will sing hymns that are specifically written about the doctrine of the Trinity. As long as it’s old, they don’t seem to really care if the lyrics totally contradict their own doctrines. In fact, I once tried to convince a mormon friend of mine to believe in the doctrine of the Trinity by going through his hymnal and pointing out where it defined God as one being in three persons. It didn’t seem to work though. (It’s so hard to convince mormons that their church could be wrong!)

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