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I need a misogynistic hymn please

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LoopyLoopsOlympicHoops · 04/11/2012 04:37

(debated putting this in religion and spirituality...)

I'm doing NaNoWriMo and writing a feminist dystopian novel. I need a hymn that has dark misogynistic lyrics, can anyone think of one?

Thanks :)

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weegiemum · 04/11/2012 06:36

Yes please! I'll be your ongoing critic

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LoopyLoopsOlympicHoops · 04/11/2012 06:31

Whence shall my tears begin?
What first-fruits shall I bear
Of earnest sorrow for my sin?
Or how my woes declare?
O Thou! the Merciful and Gracious One
Forgive the foul transgressions I have done.

With Adam I have vied,
Yea, passed him, in my fall;
And I am naked now, by pride
And lust made bare of all;
Of Thee, O GOD, and that Celestial Band,
And all the glory of the Promised Land.

No earthly Eve beguiled
My body into sin:
A spiritual temptress smiled,
Concupiscence within:
Unbridled Passion grasped the unhallowed sweet:
Most bitter?ever bitter?was the meat.

If Adam?s righteous doom,
Because he dared transgress
Thy one decree, lost Eden?s bloom
And Eden?s loveliness:
What recompence, O LORD, must I expect,
Who all my life Thy quickening laws neglect?

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LoopyLoopsOlympicHoops · 04/11/2012 06:31

Thank you all so much :)

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LoopyLoopsOlympicHoops · 04/11/2012 06:27

You certainly can weegie. You don't fancy a quick read of what I have so far do you?

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SoggyMoggy · 04/11/2012 06:07

I have a silly number of hymnals, given my lack of churchiness. Any excuse to skim them is a good one. So far no joy, but I'll keep looking.

weegiemum · 04/11/2012 06:06

I'm struggling to think of one that's openly misogynistic, best incan suggest is you try to find an old (50s or before) hymn book?
And I lurve dystopias! Can I read it, when it's done?

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LoopyLoopsOlympicHoops · 04/11/2012 05:44

Christian, but any type. Thanks :)

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SoggyMoggy · 04/11/2012 05:43

Does it need to be a hymn for a specific denomination?

Homebird8 · 04/11/2012 05:38

There's lots about obeying but not just for women. E.g. "Trust and obey, for there's no other way, to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey!"

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LoopyLoopsOlympicHoops · 04/11/2012 05:03

Submission and obeyance perhaps?

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Homebird8 · 04/11/2012 04:59

Loads of hymns using male rather than female language but nothing I can think of as being misogynistic. Jesus wasn't you see!

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