When Bon Jovi Started Praising God On Stage, I Didn’t Expect The Audience To React Like This!

http://qpolitical.com ^ | November 5, 2015:

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We know the famous rocker from his mega hit “Livin’ On A Prayer”, but there’s more to Jon Bon Jovi than meets the eye.

When asked if he still ascribes to the Catholic faith that he was raised in, the singer responded, “I think I find more strength in faith than I do in organized religion. ‘Living on a Prayer’ is most certainly nondenominational.”

But moving away from organized Catholicism hasn’t kept Bon Jovi from singing the highest praises: ‘Hallelujah’. He walked up to the mic to sing Leonard Cohen’s beautiful song “Hallelujah” and by the time he was finished I couldn’t contain myself. This is so beautiful!

“Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting: “Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns.”” -Revelation 19:6

[BlueLancer]

The song “Hallelujah” is from the movie “Shrek”, the first movie in the series. It is playing in the background when the movies shows scenes alternating between Shrek and Fiona, when Fiona is in the castle preparing the be married ...

[sportutegrl]

Thanks for the clean up

[Jack Hydrazine]

But the song dates back to 1984 when it was originally released.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah_(Leonard_Cohen_song)

[BlueLancer]

Thanks ... I didn’t know that ...

[DainBramage]

It’s always about sex.

[SC_Pete]

You are correct.
Here are some plausible interpretations:

https://www.lyricinterpretations.com/leonard-cohen/hallelujah

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

You are right about that....most songs are about sex, I guess. I actually love the tune of this song, bought the score, and play it on my dulcimer. It just sort of rubbed me wrong when the article wanted people to believe that Bon Jovi was “Praising God On Stage” with this song because he wasn’t.

[DainBramage]

Not even a little, he was singing hallelujah about boinking an chick.

[MosesKnows]

Does anyone actually believe those lyrics are praising the Lord?

Would not that be strictly up to the person singing the lyrics?

[stockpirate]

You cannot be a Democrat and a Christian, it’s an oxymoron.

[SaraJohnson]

How beautiful and up-lifting. Thanks. God bless you.

[The_Reader_David]

It’s a song about David and Bathsheba, more or less, with a little muddled imagery from the story of Samson and Delilah tossed in.

If you read the “broken Hallelujah” as part of David’s famous repentance (see the 50th Psalm — you westerners who use the Masoretic numbering will find it at 51st — and the account in 2nd Samuel), then it’s a religious song. If you read it as being David still mired in sin “having joined murder to adultery” as Orthodox hymnography puts it, then it’s irreligious.