[TheCrusader]

"Guitars do go back a ways in the Catholic Church. "Stille Nacht" - "Silent Night" was first sung in a Catholic Church in Austria to the strumming of a guitar. Of course, it wasn't part of Mass, it was before it."

The difference between crooning the tranquilizing melody of the Nativity with background accompaniment of classical guitar, and strumming the more ostentatious folk guitar strings in the manner of Peter, Paul and Mary while banging the drums on the altar is noteworthy here.

The angelic song 'Silent Night', a soft carol composed by the priest JOSEPH MOHR to immortalize the Nativity, is lullaby-soft, reverently smooth, and soothingly slow. Crooning this Christian lullaby with classical guitar accompaniment, (an instrument rivaling the harp in the hands of a master), is not the same as the ostentatious folk rock balads with banging drums. Not even close enough to deserve honest comparison. Even a shephard named Hermann can understand the difference between the heavenly 'Silent Night' and the Balad of Bennie Hinn.

COME ON, LET ME HEAR YOU LIBERALS, SOMEBODY SAY AMEN

[Hermann the Cherusker]

However, lovely as the song was, and despite it beign done out of Mass, it is still part of the heritage of Josephinism, which included deformations of the Liturgy.