This is what it sounds like when pundits cry: Prince on the recession & other "social issues"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/17/prince-talks-religious-co_n_144338.html



Recently, Prince hosted an executive who works for Philip Anschutz, the Christian businessman whose company owns the Staples Center. "We started talking red and blue," Prince said. "People with money--money like that--are not affected by the stock market, and they're not freaking out over anything. They're just watching. So here's how it is: you've got the Republicans, and basically they want to live according to this." He pointed to a Bible. "But there's the problem of interpretation, and you've got some churches, some people, basically doing things and saying it comes from here, but it doesn't. And then on the opposite end of the spectrum you've got blue, you've got the Democrats, and they're, like, 'You can do whatever you want.' Gay marriage, whatever. But neither of them is right."

When asked about his perspective on social issues--gay marriage, abortion--Prince tapped his Bible and said, "God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out. He was, like, 'Enough.' "

[NashVegas]

1. Isn't He a Brilliant *Musician*?

:rofl:

[Turbineguy]

4. And now

a Philosopher as well.:woohoo:

[msongs]

2. thus speaketh the man who lives high on $$ made selling sex thru music - if he REALLY

believed his bible stuff he would give all his money to the poor. yeah, that's gonna happen.

hypocrite thy name is....so what name is he using these days?

Msongs

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. Songs about porking his SISTER. Point to the Bible and tell me where THAT one comes from.

I was only 16 but I guess that's no excuse
My sister was 32, lovely and loose
She don't wear no underwear
She said it only gets in her hair
And it's got a funny way of stoppin' the juice

My sister never made love 2 anyone else but me
She's the reason 4 my, uh, sexuality
She showed me where it's supposed 2 go
A blowjob doesn't mean blow
Incest is everything it's said 2 be

Oh sister - don't put me on the street again
Oh sister - I just wanna be your friend

I was only 16 and only half a man
My sister didn't give a goddamn
She only wanted 2 turn me out
She'd take a whip 2 me until I shout
Oh motherfucker, she's a motherfucker, can't U understand?

Oh sister - don't put me on the street again
Oh sister - I just wanna be your friend

I know what U want me 2 do
Put me on the street and make me blue

Oh sister!
Oh sister!

[laconicsax]

13. Genesis 19:30-38

Oh, wait. That one's about how Lot's two daughters got him drunk and took turns with him for the express purpose of getting pregnant.

The brother-sister hook up was technically in Genesis chapter 12, when Abram married his half-sister, Sarai.

The proof is in Genesis 20:12, where Abraham says of Sarah:

And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

[NightHawk63]

3. Oh no...say it ain't so!!!

I LOVED Prince!! But I never got how someone that could write "Head" and "Erotic City" could claim to be so "religious".

:crazy:

[Caliman73]

7. Which is why I Never go to celebrities for political, religious, moral, or ethical guidance

Prince is a very talented musician, but he is just as messed up and uniformed as anyone else out there. Talent in music does not translate to anything by talent in music.

Tom Cruise!!...now there is a religious guru!!:sarcasm:

[Mojambo]

5. What a bizarre little man. n/t

[monmouth]

6. Tacky taste in clothes too....n/t

[Taverner]

9. He went Jehova's Witnesses a few years back

Now he wont do any songs about sex in concert anymore

We lost another one...

[hvn_nbr_2]

12. No songs about sex in concert but...

Will he sing to you about sex when he comes to your door on Saturday morning to convert you?

[Taverner]

15. Good question

And can you wear a seatless purple jumpsuit when going door-to-door?

[TexasObserver]

10. This is what it sounds like ... when dorks talk.

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Yeah, whatever, symbol-man.

Pfffffft. :eyes:

[Berry Cool]

14. Just remember, Little Richard got religion for a while too.

Guys like him and Prince have always enjoyed dancing on the knife-edge between the sacred and the profane. Life is more exciting to them that way, and besides, it's made them rich.