Father Barron on Bob Dylan

Another part of a video series from Wordonfire.org. Father Barron will be commenting on subjects from modern day culture.

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• dylan
• jesus
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[Abr022575]

I thought he was a Jew

[wordonfirevideo]

@Abr022575 So were Jesus, Peter, and Paul!

[kwixotic]

@wordonfirevideo....How do you deduce what you just wrote based on my comment? Of course you're free to "speculate" all you want in an effort to "derive" whatever meaning it is you're looking for in any artist's creations. But I wouldn't take what you or anyone say all that seriously simply because it comes from your mind, itself an illusory creation.

[wordonfirevideo]

@kwixotic Hey man, no one is forcing you to! If you don't like my reading, move on. But you can't tell me that I don't have the right to offer my point of view or that my interpretation is "nonsense" simply because Bob Dylan hasn't told us what his songs mean.

[wordonfirevideo]

@benabaxter Oh I disagree! I'm with Rolling Stone Magazine, which named Bob Dylan as one of the top five vocalists of the rock era.

[itslifeisall]

@wordonfirevideo “Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else. Songs like “Let Me Rest on a Peaceful Mountain” or “I Saw the Light”—that’s my religion. I don’t adhere to rabbis, preachers, evangelists, all of that. I’ve learned more from the songs than I’ve learned from any of this kind of entity. The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.”

Bob Dylan – Newsweek Oct. 6, 1997

[manwithouthat44]

what a massive misinterpretation about like a rolling stone

[GoodyBob]

@wordonfirevideo Good points Fr.!. Dylan also got material from Woody Guthrie, of course. See youtube Woody Guthrie: Voice of the Common Man see the 2 forgotten stanzas at about 7 minutes into it...they are still so true & I think Jesus would agree with the lyrics. Thanks.

[csalmeron68]

Does anyone know the name of the wong in minute 2:57? Thanks!

[cosmicallyderived]

Thanks for sharing!



[DakotaY24]

@Abr022575: He is, but he's also been into christianity. Dylan is very "spiritual."

[rcarabelas]

@fireman8900 I think if you listen again to Bob Dylan's interview on 60 mins. he nevers says he sold his soul to the devil....rather, from my point of view, he made a deal with God.