http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2008/08/13/hello-dolly/ Deirdré Straughan on Italy, India, the Internet, and the world Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2008/08/13/hello-dolly/comment-page-1/#comment-157661 vangie Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:30:01 +0000 http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/?p=163#comment-157661 RE: Dolly's lead balloon, I wouldn't say it has to do with atheism. More like, many people (myself included) don't care for the "Jesus people" to throw his name in our faces like they're throwing us a bone and act like they're having an 0rg@sm doing it. It's irritating, insulting, and unnecessary, regardless of one's belief system. I had a similar experience at a Shake Russell concert (country-folk crossover artist from the 70s). It was clear from the applause levels that the audience suffered through the religion-tinged numbers. We were not expecting them and had not come to hear that genre. RE: Dolly’s lead balloon, I wouldn’t say it has to do with atheism. More like, many people (myself included) don’t care for the “Jesus people” to throw his name in our faces like they’re throwing us a bone and act like they’re having an 0rg@sm doing it. It’s irritating, insulting, and unnecessary, regardless of one’s belief system. I had a similar experience at a Shake Russell concert (country-folk crossover artist from the 70s). It was clear from the applause levels that the audience suffered through the religion-tinged numbers. We were not expecting them and had not come to hear that genre.

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