Turn, Turn, Turn.....

"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven."-Ecclesiastes 3:1

There was a time I thought this was written by the Mammas and the Pappas, but these powerful words and the whole song was taken straight from the Bible. What's more ironic is I was enrolled in a parochial school when the song was popular, but nary a word was muttered about it's origin.

You can't help but wonder why? Would it have ruined the hippy, flower power, free love movement street cred? Their whole gig was being anti-everything yet here they are quoting a Bible verse. A basis of a moral foundation that was totally opposite of what they were trying to sell. Defying moral codes of conduct with the mantra of sex, drugs, rock and roll, end the war, and down with the man rebellion defined the 60's. Yet one of the most popular folk songs of the era was basically a Bible verse set to music.

I can't help but wonder if the radicals feel like they've been had? Especially since their days are now filled preaching separation of church and state.........

God Bless!
Capt. Bill