The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser

Series: Songs of Sacrilege

  • Songs of Sacrilege: Did Jesus Have a Baby Sister? by Dory Previn

    Today, I am starting a new series, Songs of Sacrilege. This is a series that I would like readers to help me with. If you know of a song that is irreverent towards religion, makes fun of religion, pokes fun at sincerely held religious beliefs, or challenges the firmly held religious beliefs of others, please leave the name the song in the comment section or send me an email.

    Dory Previn was an Americans 20th century  song writer and poet. Previn’s fifth album, released in 1974 on the Warner Brothers label, featured a song titled, Did Jesus Have a Baby Sister?

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    Did jesus have a baby sister?
    Was she bitter?
    Was she sweet?
    Did she wind up in a convent?
    Did she end up on the street?
    On the run?
    On the stage?
    Did she dance?
    Did he have a sister?
    A little baby sister?
    Did jesus have a sister?
    Did they give her a chance?

    Did he have a baby sister?
    Could she speak out
    By and large?
    Or was she told by mother mary
    Ask your brother he’s in charge
    He’s the chief
    He’s the whipped cream
    On the cake
    Did he have a sister?
    A little baby sister?
    Did jesus have a sister?
    Did they give her a break?

    Her brother’s
    Birth announcement
    Was pretty big
    Pretty big
    I guess
    While she got precious
    Little notice
    In the local press
    Her mother was the virgin
    When she carried him
    Carried him
    Therein
    If the little girl came later
    Then
    Was she conceived in sin?
    And in sorrow?
    And in suffering?
    And in shame?
    Did jesus have a sister?
    What was her name?

    Did she long to be the saviour
    Saving everyone
    She me?
    And in private to her mirror
    Did she whisper
    Saviourette?
    Saviourwoman?
    Saviourperson?
    Save your breath!
    Did he have a sister?
    A little baby sister?
    Did jesus have a sister?
    Was she there at his death?

    And did she cry for mary’s comfort
    As she watched him
    On the cross?
    And was mary too despairing
    Ask your brother
    He’s the boss
    He’s the chief
    He’s the man
    He’s the show
    Did he have a sister?
    A little baby sister?
    Did jesus have a sister?
    Doesn’t anyone know?

  • Songs of Sacrilege: Hand of the Almighty (God will F**k You Up) by John Butler

    This is the second installment in the Songs of Sacrilege series. This is a series that I would like readers to help me with. If you know of a song that is irreverent towards religion, makes fun of religion, pokes fun at sincerely held religious beliefs, or challenges the firmly held religious beliefs of others, please leave the name the song in the comment section or send me an email.

    Today’s Song of Sacrilege is Hand of the Almighty (God Will Fuck You Up) by Australian John Butler. Warning! This song contains numerous swear words.


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    Oh, sinner, do not stray From the straight and narrow way For the Lord is surely watching what you do If you approach the Devils den Turn round dont enter in Lest the hand of the almighty fall on you.

    Hell fuck you up (hell fuck you up) Yes, God will fuck you up If you dare to disobey his stern command. Hell fuck you up (hell fuck you up) Dont you know hell fuck you up So you better do some prayin while you can.

    Long ago a man named Lot Had a wife he thought was hot But she could not stop her black and sinful ways. You know it was her own damn fault When God turned that bitch to salt. Thats the way he used to work back in those days:

    He fucked em up (he fucked em up) He really fucked em up When the people went and turned their backs on him He can fuck you up (hell fuck you up) No shit hell fuck you up Just like he fucked the people up back then.

    I used to have a friend named Ray Who walked that evil way He cursed and drank and broke his neighbors fence You know Ray was full aware That some sheep were over there And he knew them in the Biblical sense.

    God fucked him up (he fucked him up) He went and fucked Ray up Went and paid him back for all his wicked sins. He fucked him up (he fucked him up) Fucked that boy completely up Now hes married to a Presbyterian.

    HT: Susan, for sending me this song on Facebook.

  • Songs of Sacrilege: Jesus Loves Me (But He Can’t Stand You) by Austin Lounge Lizards

    This is the third installment in the Songs of Sacrilege series. This is a series that I would like readers to help me with. If you know of a song that is irreverent towards religion, makes fun of religion, pokes fun at sincerely held religious beliefs, or challenges the firmly held religious beliefs of others, please leave the name the song in the comment section or send me an email.

    Today’s Song of Sacrilege is Jesus Loves Me (But He Can’t Stand You) by The Austin Lounge Lizards from Austin, Texas. (HT: Camels with Hammers)

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    I know you smoke, I know you drink that brew
    I just can’t abide a sinner like you
    You know, God can’t either, that’s why I know it to be true
    That Jesus loves me, but he can’t stand you

    I’m goin’ straight to heaven, boys, when I die
    ‘Cause I’ve crossed every T and I’ve dotted every I
    Why, my preacher tells me that I’m God’s kind of guy
    That’s why Jesus loves me…..but you’re gonna fry

    God loves all His children, by gum
    That don’t mean He won’t incinerate some
    Can’t you feel those hot flames lickin’ you?
    Woo-ooo-ooo-oo

    I’m raisin’ my kids in a righteous way
    So don’t you be bringin’ your kids over to my house to play
    Why, yours will grow up stoned, left-leaning, and gay
    I know – Jesus told me on the phone today

    Jesus loves me, this I know
    And he told me where you’re gonna go
    There’s lots of room for your kind – down below
    Wo-wo-wo-o

    Jesus loves me, he loves me real good
    I know he does because he called me up on the phone today and told me how much he loves me
    He said, “Son, I loooooove you”
    He speaks English pretty well, considering it’s a second language for him
    You can talk to him too, you know, I’ve got a 900-number in Tulsa that you can call him at – I do it all the time
    He’ll be glad to hear from you, I talk to him every day

    Jesus loves me, but he can’t stand you!

  • Songs of Sacrilege: God Shuffled His Feet by Crash Test Dummies

    This is the fourth installment in the Songs of Sacrilege series. This is a series that I would like readers to help me with. If you know of a song that is irreverent towards religion, makes fun of religion, pokes fun at sincerely held religious beliefs, or challenges the firmly held religious beliefs of others, please leave the name the song in the comment section or send me an email.

    Today’s Song of Sacrilege is God Shuffled His Feet  by Crash Test Dummies, folk rock/alternative rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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    After seven days
    He was quite tired so God said:
    “Let there be a day
    Just for picnics, with wine and bread”
    He gathered up some people he had made
    Created blankets and laid back in the shade

    The people sipped their wine
    And what with God there, they asked him questions
    Like: do you have to eat
    Or get your hair cut in heaven?
    And if your eye got poked out in this life
    Would it be waiting up in heaven with your wife?

    God shuffled his feet and glanced around at them;
    The people cleared their throats and stared right back at him

    So he said:”Once there was a boy
    Who woke up with blue hair
    To him it was a joy
    Until he ran out into the warm air
    He thought of how his friends would come to see;
    And would they laugh, or had he got some strange disease?

    God shuffled his feet and glanced around at them;
    The people cleared their throats and stared right back at him

    The people sat waiting
    Out on their blankets in the garden
    But God said nothing
    So someone asked him: “I beg your pardon:
    I’m not quite clear about what you just spoke
    Was that a parable, or a very subtle joke?”

    God shuffled his feet and glanced around at them;
    The people cleared their throats and stared right back at him

  • Songs of Sacrilege: Progressive Christmas Carols by Jon Cozart

    This is the fifth installment in the Songs of Sacrilege series. This is a series that I would like readers to help me with. If you know of a song that is irreverent towards religion, makes fun of religion, pokes fun at sincerely held religious beliefs, or challenges the firmly held religious beliefs of others, please leave the name the song in the comment section or send me an email.

    Today’s Song of Sacrilege is Progressive Christmas Carols by Jon Cozart. You can follow Jon, AKA Paint, on Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.

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  • Songs of Sacrilege: Dear God by XTC

    This is the latest installment in the Songs of Sacrilege series. This is a series that I would like readers to help me with. If you know of a song that is irreverent towards religion, makes fun of religion, pokes fun at sincerely held religious beliefs, or challenges the firmly held religious beliefs of others, please leave the name the song in the comment section or send me an email.

    Today’s Song of Sacrilege is Dear God by XTC, as new wave band from Swindon, England, 1979-2006

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    Dear God, hope you get the letter and
    I pray you can make it better down here
    I don’t mean a big reduction in the price of beer
    But all the people that you made in your image
    See them starving on their feet
    ‘Cause they don’t get enough to eat from God
    I can’t believe in you

    Dear God, sorry to disturb you but
    I feel that I should be heard loud and clear
    We all need a big reduction in amount of tears
    And all the people that you made in your image
    See them fighting in the street
    ‘Cause they can’t make opinions meet about God
    I can’t believe in you

    Did you make disease and the diamond blue?
    Did you make mankind after we made you?
    And the Devil too!

    Dear God don’t know if you noticed but
    Your name is on a lot of quotes in this book
    And us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look
    And all the people that you made in your image
    Still believing that junk is true
    Well I know it ain’t, and so do you
    Dear God
    I can’t believe in
    I don’t believe

    I won’t believe in heaven or hell
    No saints, no sinners, no devil as well
    No pearly gates, no thorny crown
    You’re always letting us humans down
    The wars you bring, the babes you drown
    Those lost at sea and never found
    And it’s the same the whole world ’round
    The hurt I see helps to compound
    The Father, Son and Holy Ghost
    Is just somebody’s unholy hoax
    And if you’re up there you’ll perceive
    That my heart’s here upon my sleeve
    If there’s one thing I don’t believe in

    It’s you
    Dear God

    Bruce Gerencser, 69, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 48 years. He and his wife have six grown children and thirteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.

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  • Songs of Sacrilege: The Vatican Rag by Tom Lehrer

    This is the seventh installment in the Songs of Sacrilege series. This is a series that I would like readers to help me with. If you know of a song that is irreverent towards religion, makes fun of religion, pokes fun at sincerely held religious beliefs, or challenges the firmly held religious beliefs of others, please leave the name the song in the comment section or send me an email.

    Today’s Song of Sacrilege is The Vatican Rag by Tom Lehrer.

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    First you get down on your knees,
    Fiddle with your rosaries,
    Bow your head with great respect,
    And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!

    Do whatever steps you want, if
    You have cleared them with the pontiff.
    Everybody say his own
    Kyrie eleison,
    Doin’ the vatican rag.

    Get in line in that processional,
    Step into that small confessional,
    There, the guy who’s got religion’ll
    Tell you if your sin’s original.
    If it is, try playin’ it safer,
    Drink the wine and chew the wafer,
    Two, four, six, eight,
    Time to transubstantiate!

    So get down upon your knees,
    Fiddle with your rosaries,
    Bow your head with great respect,
    And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!

    Make a cross on your abdomen,
    When in rome do like a roman,
    Ave maria,
    Gee it’s good to see ya,
    Gettin’ ecstatic an’
    Sorta dramatic an’
    Doin’ the vatican rag!

    Bruce Gerencser, 69, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 48 years. He and his wife have six grown children and thirteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.

    Your comments are welcome and appreciated. All first-time comments are moderated. Please read the commenting rules before commenting.

    You can email Bruce via the Contact Form.

  • Songs of Sacrilege: Merry Go ‘Round by Kacey Musgraves

    This is the eighth installment in the Songs of Sacrilege series. This is a series that I would like readers to help me with. If you know of a song that is irreverent towards religion, makes fun of religion, pokes fun at sincerely held religious beliefs, or challenges the firmly held religious beliefs of others, please leave the name the song in the comment section or send me an email.

    Today’s Song of Sacrilege is Merry Go ‘Round by Kacey Musgraves.  This is not an overtly sacrilegious song,but it does point out the disconnect between church and real life. I am a big Kacy Musgraves fan.

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    If you ain’t got two kids by 21, you’re probably gonna die alone.
    At least that’s what tradition told you.
    And it don’t matter if you don’t believe, come Sunday morning
    You best be there in the front row like you’re supposed to.

    Same hurt in every heart.
    Same trailer, different park.

    Mama’s hooked on Mary Kay.
    Brother’s hooked on Mary Jane
    Daddy’s hooked on Mary two doors down.
    Mary, Mary quite contrary.
    We get bored, so, we get married
    Just like dust, we settle in this town.
    On this broken merry go ’round and ’round and ’round we go
    Where it stops nobody knows
    And it ain’t slowin’ down
    This merry go ’round.

    We think the first time’s good enough.
    So, we hold on to high school love.
    Sayin’ we won’t end up like our parents.
    Tiny little boxes in a row, ain’t whatcha want, it’s whatcha know.
    Just happy in the shoes you’re wearin’.
    Same checks we’re always cashin’
    To buy a little more distraction.

    ‘Cause mama’s hooked on Mary Kay.
    Brother’s hooked on Mary Jane
    Daddy’s hooked on Mary two doors down.
    Mary, Mary, quite contrary.
    We get bored, so, we get married.
    Just like dust, we settle in this town.
    On this broken merry go ’round and ’round and ’round we go
    Where it stops nobody knows,
    And it ain’t slowin’ down.
    This merry go ’round.

    Mary, Mary, quite contrary.
    We’re so bored until we’re buried.
    Just like dust, we settle in this town.
    On this broken merry go ’round.
    Merry go ’round.

    Jack and Jill went up the hill.
    Jack burned out on booze and pills.
    And Mary had a little lamb.
    Mary just don’t give a damn no more.

  • Songs of Sacrilege: Parasite God by Mortiis

    This is the ninth installment in the Songs of Sacrilege series. This is a series that I would like readers to help me with. If you know of a song that is irreverent towards religion, makes fun of religion, pokes fun at sincerely held religious beliefs, or challenges the firmly held religious beliefs of others, please leave the name the song in the comment section or send me an email.

    Today’s Song of Sacrilege is Parasite God by Mortiis.

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    We are floating – Above the mountains.
    Watching all the tiny people.
    How they waste themselves away.
    Obey themselves away.

    How willingly – They lay their love.
    How willingly – They sacrifice themselves,
    To the Locust Master – to the one that drowned the world.

    They love their Parasite God – Yet they crucify me.

    How willingly – They lay their love.
    How willingly – They sacrifice themselves,
    to the bringer of hunger – to the one that drowned the world.

    They love their Parasite God – Yet they crucify me.

    I want to be your Parasite God.
    So i can show you what you really are.
    I want to be your Parasite God.
    So i can show you what you really are.

    They love their Parasite God – Yet they crucify me.

    Bruce Gerencser, 69, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 48 years. He and his wife have six grown children and thirteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.

    Your comments are welcome and appreciated. All first-time comments are moderated. Please read the commenting rules before commenting.

    You can email Bruce via the Contact Form.

  • Songs of Sacrilege: Christian Woman by Type O Negative

    This is the tenth installment in the Songs of Sacrilege series. This is a series that I would like readers to help me with. If you know of a song that is irreverent towards religion, makes fun of religion, pokes fun at sincerely held religious beliefs, or challenges the firmly held religious beliefs of others, please leave the name the song in the comment section or send me an email.

    Today’s Song of Sacrilege is Christian Woman by Type O Negative.

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    a) Body Of Christ (Corpus Christi)
    b) To Love God
    c) Jesus Christ Looks Like Me

    A cross upon her bedroom wall
    From grace she will fall
    An image burning in her mind
    And between her thighs

    A dying God-man full of pain
    When will you cum again ?

    Before him beg to serve or please
    On your back or knees
    There’s no forgiveness for her sins
    Prefers punishment ?
    Would you suffer eternally
    Or internally ?

    For her lust
    She’ll burn in hell
    Her soul done medium well
    All through mass manual stimulation
    Salvation

    Body of Christ
    She needs
    The body of Christ

    She’d like to know God
    Ooh love God
    Feel her God
    Inside of here – deep inside of her

    Jesus Christ looks like me