Joni Mitchell Lashes Out At Catholic Church On New CD

Joni Mitchell is back after nine years, and she's on the attack. In the title track to her new album, "Shine," Mitchell takes a nice swipe at the Catholic Church by name.

"Shine on the Catholic Church/And the prisons that it owns," she sings. "Shine on all the Churches/that love less and less."

Mitchell was never one to mince words, but in her triumphant return on Starbucks' Hear Records, she doesn't give an inch. In "Shine," she continues: "Shine on lousy leadership/Licensed to kill/Shine on dying soldiers/In patriotic pain/Shine on mass destruction/In some God's name!"

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[larry278]

The many comments on this blog have created an endless circular argment. This shows what sophists can do if left to their own devices.

[Izadora]

To 0yvei - Thanks for the quotes. Appreciate
it.

"THE ONLY GOOD IS KNOWLEDGE AND
THE ONLY EVIL IS IGNORANCE."

"DEEDS, NOT WORDS SHALL SPEAK ME!"

"EVOLUTION OR CREATION ARE THEORY, NOT
FACT."

"WHAT IT IS FAITH? IT IS BELIEVE
WITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE!"

"IF THERE WERE PROOF OF THE EXISTENCE
OF GOD, WOULDN'T FATE BE IRRELEVANT?"

"IN THE RIGHT LIGHT, AT THE RIGHT TIME,
EVERYTHING IS EXTRAORDINARY!"

"GOD LOVED THE BIRDS AND INVENTED TREES
MAN LOVED THE BIRDS AND INVENTED CAGES."
(Maya Angelou)

Love to all bloggers.

GOD=LOVE=COMPASSION=GRATITUDE.

[meandmagoo]

This has way too many comments.

Hell,I'll bet half of you either didn't know who Joni Mitchell is or didn't know she was still alive.

[kalapa]

PS. I do admire the work of some grass roots Catholic organizations, like the Catholic Workers Movement.

[kalapa]

WOW! 415 comments, and the article's not even a day old.

Won't clog up this blog, just a few points:

1)Catholic Church is major rotten structurally, not just a "few bad apples".

2) Latest crap - trying to pressure Amnesty Interational to drop its pro-abortion position for rape victims in war zones.

3) Its patently absurd for a cabal of men who have zero experience of everyday domestic, family life to pontificate on how said life should be led eg. contraceptive, divorce.

Have always loved Joni's critical take on issues of the day. Thank God she's back! I'll be getting her CD, even though it's via Starbucks...sigh

[freespeach]

OyVei

What does a dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac do???

He lies awake at night wondering...if there really is a DOG.

[Podewumun]

10,000 out of work comedians...

[OyVei]

The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?
John Adams

[OyVei]

Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce

[OyVei]

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
John Buchan

[Podewumun]

DING! DING! DING! DING! Nnnnnnnnnnn We HAVE A WINNER FOR BEST QUOTE OF THE DAY!!!!

I would hve guess Twain and lost. Golly good!!!

[OyVei]

Believing in gods always causes confusion.
Pearl S. Buck

[OyVei]

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George Carlin

[average joe]

Old hippie sings songs from a wheelchair. A new hot c d for somebody maybe shit who cares.

[Podewumun]

(below) averagejoe, you're back!

Was it Miller time for the supervisory pube?

Then you must be middle management. Poor dear.

[OyVei]

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history my be the hijacking of morality by religion. However valuable - even necessary - that may have been in enforcing good behavior on primitive peoples, their association is now counterproductive. Yet at the very moment when they should be decoupled, sanctimonious nitwits are calling for a return to morals based on superstition.
Arthur C. Clarke

[OyVei]

For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs -- as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices, practices infanticide without remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions.
Charles Darwin

[OyVei]

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass,
escaped slave