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scaffer
According to at least one web site that claims to be authoritative re celebrities' religions (I forget the URL), Charlie is Jewish.
Granted, it doesn't matter of course - but perhaps the fact that me own grandpa is Jewish made me a little curious when I read this about Charlie.
The fact that we virtually never hear anything about this topic suggests that Charlie may feel it's his own business and no one else's, which I definitely respect.
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Munichhilton
Songs such as these give me hope that I will still hear The Stones music when I cross the river into the promised land....(if I make it)
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StonesBlake
Charlie is Jewish, so I don't see Easter being all that big for him.
First time I hear that Charlie is jewish ;Is it written in a book or somewhere ?
So he can do Pessah .
.High Times: Are you Catholic?
Jagger: No. We’re very staunchly anti-Catholic. We’re very much so. But I couldn’t believe -- I used to go into people’s houses in South America and Brazil, they’d have these statues of this wooden saint. They collect them, you know. The women particularly. And a whole table. You go into a room dominated by this huge table with big -- they’re quite big, a foot tall -- and they name them and tell about them. It’s absolute bullshit, I mean, all these saints. It is. Everyone knows it
High Times: I think so too.
Jagger: Most of these saints -- that particular religion turns me right off.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Your old time religion is just superstition" <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< wasn't this line about Bianca who if I've got it right is a staunch Catholic.....and I thought Keith was into Voodoo - which although it has had a bad rap is a religion - what with all that bone waving before going on stage at the 2006 Rio show...................Quote
teleblaster
"Your old time religion is just superstition"
A happy Easter weekend to one and all, whatever your beliefs.
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Rip This
...."Just want To see His Face"....could just as well be about wanting/needing to see a drug dealer...."
Except that that line is proceeded by "don't wanna talk about Jesus". Not a common name for drug dealers. I have read at least one interview with Mick where he stated his belief in God, but said he had no specific religious associations. Keith has spoken in great detail about his spiritual beliefs, in "Life" and elsewhere. Charlie and Ronnie, I don't know. I remember hearing somewhere, I think on the Sticky Fingers Journal (remember that one?) that the four remaining Stones always sing some old gospel hymn together at every band related funeral. But Charlie says he doesn't sing.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>> but Satanism or Wicca or voodoo that sometimes has blended in with Catholicism in certain regions <<<<<<<<<<<<<..I did read once that there is also lot of cross wiring between Catholicism and the old Aztec and Inca religion/cultures in South America (Not disregarding the ones you mentioned) where of course Bianca does come from. Apparently the vatican is proactive in trying to keep the various factions apart because the Inca/Aztec aspects are rooted in blood sacrifice. The article also pointed out that there was an irony in that though because at the root of the christian faith is their own God performing a blood sacrifice...ie..(He) sacrificed his own son to a bloody death.(Sic).....You may be right about Anita though, I don't know enough about her to comment...........Equally though, the high prices/sacrifices thing may just about seeing that her religion demanded a lot and by his reckoning was not likely to 'pay out' in the end. The high price being an ultimate disappointment after a lifetime of self denial and sacrifice......as I say though it's only an interpretation and of course you may be the one that's rightQuote
Rocky Dijon
Mick made his statements to HIGH TIMES when he was with Jerry and going through divorce proceedings with Bianca. The public slam against Catholicism was a reflection of that situation the same as the opening lines of "Send It To Me."
Like his own father, Mick has tried various beliefs (and non-belief in Mick's case) at different times in his life. For the past decade or so he has been practicing Buddhism with much encouragement from Jade and his brother.
"The old time religion" is not a reference to Catholicism, but Satanism or Wicca or voodoo that sometimes has blended in with Catholicism in certain regions. That is why the next line in "Crazy Mama" is "You're going to pay high prices for your sacrifices." If the song has a particular target it was more like Anita than Bianca.
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Hairball
In the beginning, there was The Beatles.
And in the end, there is the Rolling Stones.
Amen.
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Hairball
In the beginning, there was The Beatles.
And in the end, there is the Rolling Stones.
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Rocky Dijon
Not trying to turn into a Bianca apologist, but I think any conviction that she was devout in her faith isn't wholly accurate.
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Rocky Dijon
I never expressed my own views on Catholicism or Christianity because they are irrelevant to the discussion.
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skl127
Mick is on record as saying that he didn't believe in God, or any one spiritual being, very disappointing really . . . don't get me wrong, I love the Stones, but I would have thought a man with Mick's intelligence wouldn't dismiss God so flippantly.
What's wrong in believing in God, you will never see a sad Christian.
Cheers
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paulywaul
The appear to be sensible individuals, so with luck one might assume they're not religious in the slightest.
Some smartas* always has to post some negative comment about religion on these boards. Why don't you learn to be "sensible" yourself and withhold your religious views like a good boy.
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skipstone
What's so "sensible" about posting about religion to begin with?