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Politics : Should God be replaced?

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To: average joe who wrote (17493)	5/18/2004 12:13:40 AM
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"The Waltz" ...a ballroom dance in 3/4 time born in the suburbs of Vienna and in the alpine region of Austria. As early as the seventeenth century....Do you think Jesus would have danced the waltz too , if he had known of it ? centralhome.com The waltz was also criticized on moral grounds by those opposed to its closer hold and rapid turning movements. Religious leaders almost unanimously regarded it as vulgar and sinful. Continental court circles held out obstinately against the waltz. In England, (a land of strict morals), the waltz was accepted even more slowly. In July of 1816, the waltz was included in a ball given in London by the Prince Regent. A blistering editorial in The Times a few days later stated: "We remarked with pain that the indecent foreign dance called the Waltz was introduced (we believe for the first time) at the English court on Friday last ... it is quite sufficient to cast one's eyes on the voluptuous intertwining of the limbs and close compressure on the bodies in their dance, to see that it is indeed far removed from the modest reserve which has hitherto been considered distinctive of English females. So long as this obscene display was confined to prostitutes and adulteresses, we did not think it deserving of notice; but now that it is attempted to be forced on the respectable classes of society by the civil examples of their superiors, we feel it a duty to warn every parent against exposing his daughter to so fatal a contagion." Those stuffy English...to imagine comdemning the Waltz as sinful and immoral. One could imagine that it might be probable that they were just covering up for the fact they had not the slightest rythym ? One man's vulgarity , was another's grace...thank heaven for a little dancing together once in a while .<g> (They always were such rigid hell bent classist prudes...all the way back to caesar, hehe)

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