Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Hey... sick of being cooped up this winter? Miss "The Hill" in Central Park? Miss the music and the cool hang?
I'M PLAYING AT MAKOR CAFE on West 67th Street TOMORROW NIGHT!!!
This concert is ONLY $12. If you live in or around New York, don't miss it, okay? (A little more about that further down the page.)
Got a "Weekly Wake-Up Call" on today's episode of "I Love the Company". It's all about one of the subjects that I've been told you're not supposed to bring up at parties... religion.
But this is the place we can and will kick stuff like this around a little. So, listen to the show and then pick up the phone and let me know how you feel about things.
Anywhere in North America:
646-224-8162
Over in Europe:
+44 845 280 6622
Here, click on this logo to listen to the show. It's episode #210.
Special musical guest on today's show: Bright Eyes. (Click on his photo to visit his website, find out more about his, where he's playing, and how to get his music.)
Before I get into the meat of today's show and update, I just wanna let you guys know 2 things.
Yes... tomorrow night at Makor. We're gonna have a blast. You can get tickets online right now by clicking on this logo...
...or by calling the box office directly. (212-601-1000)
Dodger Bartlett is gonna sit in with me.
The other thing is that the Central Park Permit Fund for '07 is continuing. (Could really use everybody's help with that effort. The PayPal button is over there on the right, under The Weather.)
Okay... on today's show I promised that I would post a few quotes by one of this nation's founders. These few quotes among many by John Adams, the second president of the United States and member of the Declaration committee, made about his feelings toward religion, the separation of church and state, and the dangers of religion infiltrating government.
(Another segment of the show today addresses the hysterical level hypocrisy of George W. Bush and many, many of the people who support him and his policies.
Have fun.... then call the show to be heard. (And, if you voted for Bush or this show pisses you off for some reason, I'd especially like to hear from you.)
John Adams: on religion
"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?"
"The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or in America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses."
"Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretense of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind."
"As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation. But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?"
"I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself."
"Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?"
-- John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, May 19, 1821
"I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved -- the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!"
"God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world."
Okay... those are just a few, but you get the idea.
I know there are people reading this all over the country and in different parts of the world. But if you are anywhere near New York City on Thursday night, I hope I get to hang out with you for a few hours.
Thanks again.
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Wouldn't Want It Any Other Way (CD)
I Love The Company (CD)
Common Ground
The People on the Hill
Crazy On The Same Day
It's Just Us (Live)
Talk Louder (single)
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