{"id":3589,"date":"2011-12-16T17:12:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T00:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3589"},"modified":"2011-12-16T17:15:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T00:15:15","slug":"should-paganized-yule-carols-be-encouraged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3589","title":{"rendered":"Should Paganized Yule Carols Be Encouraged?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evangelical Christians are always swiping slogans and memes from media or popular culture and Christ-fying them. On the Baptist Church signboard that I pass on the way into Pueblo, I have seen “Got Jesus?”\u2014an obvious steal from the dairy industry’s “Got milk?” campaign.<\/p>\n

Here are more examples of “Christ-ification.”<\/a> (“Got Jesus?” is there too.)<\/p>\n

So what happens when Pagans do it?<\/p>\n

I am fully aware of the filk tradition<\/a>, and Polyhymnia<\/a> knows that people have been putting new words to old tunes since forever.<\/p>\n

So when you put new words to traditional Christmas carols<\/a>, everyone knows the tunes, at least.<\/p>\n

Since “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” is a commercial song<\/a> and not religious, why not (aside from copyright issues) turn it into the catchy “Faunus the Roman Goat God<\/a>“? And the production values are pretty good.<\/p>\n

But I keep going back to “Got Jesus?” on the Baptist church sign.<\/p>\n

Are we not creative enough to come up with our own songs? Isn’t there something intrinsically second-rate about taking a song from the dominant culture and turning it into “We Three Witches<\/a>,” even when the adaption is well-done?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Evangelical Christians are always swiping slogans and memes from media or popular culture and Christ-fying them. On the Baptist Church signboard that I pass on the way into Pueblo, I have seen “Got Jesus?”\u2014an obvious steal from the dairy industry’s “Got milk?” campaign. Here are more examples of “Christ-ification.” (“Got Jesus?” is there too.) 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