Halleluja!

A friend (Bob) suggests the following as blog material:

(Actually, this is a somewhat longer version of the video Bob suggested.)

The music is wonderful, of course. Thank you, Mr. Handel! And the performance is wonderfully imaginative and funny. But still . . .

. . . isn't it a little . . .

. . . um, . . . er . . . irreverent?

Bob is way more orthodox than I am, but even so, I find it a little -- just a little -- offensive (let's not say blasphemous) that a celebration of our Savior's resurrection is used as an occasion for some guys to flip cards so that people in the audience will laugh.

It just doesn't feel right, somehow. If I had to pick a popular Youtube version of the Halleluja chorus, I think I'd pick this one, which has been sent to me by two different people in recent days: