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I've been listening to/reading from Leonard Cohen's work for the past 40 years and I am mystified that every world religion has not acknowledged his contributions as being utterly prophetic (not necessarily saintly). Whether "Anthem", "If it be your Will", "The Guests" or, most recently, "Show me the place" - is there not truth, beauty and passion in each phrase?
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LeonjlFox asks:
>How is this man not honoured as a prophet by every religion?


this is absurd. no way is leonard cohen prophet material. messiah, maybe - but not a mere prophet.

You'd be hard pressed to find a religious Jew who would like him, they are just way too against most secular Jews. Or Jews that do things like curse OH MY GOD COVER MY EARS!

pipskicks wrote:You'd be hard pressed to find a religious Jew who would like him, they are just way too against most secular Jews. Or Jews that do things like curse OH MY GOD COVER MY EARS!

You mean many of his fellow countrymen don't like him? Perhaps Jesus was right then when in Matthew 13:57 he said: "No man is a prophet in his own hometown!"

Geoffrey wrote:
this is absurd. no way is leonard cohen prophet material. messiah, maybe - but not a mere prophet.

He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy..........

(Thanks go to Monty Python)

Geoffrey wrote:

pipskicks wrote:You'd be hard pressed to find a religious Jew who would like him, they are just way too against most secular Jews. Or Jews that do things like curse OH MY GOD COVER MY EARS!

You mean many of his fellow countrymen don't like him? Perhaps Jesus was right then when in Matthew 13:57 he said: "No man is a prophet in his own hometown!"

Eh he's supposedly my G-Ma's cousin, and my parents don't want anything to do with him or me, so yeah, the non-religious Jews I'm sure love him like they love all the other non-religious Jews, but anyone who leaves the religion....they're definitely far from prophets! They would probably dissuade other Jews from listening to him it's that bad. Oh well, you're probably right about not being a prophet in your hometown, religion is a business, no prophet wants to lose his congregation (or more his congegation's money)

pipskicks wrote:he's supposedly my G-Ma's cousin, and my parents don't want anything to do with him or me

supposedly? unless i am mistaken, your great grandparents must have had at least two children; one being your grandmother, the other either leonard's mother or father - as that would make he and your grandmother first cousins. to verify this you need only to conduct a standard document search.

Geoffrey wrote:

pipskicks wrote:he's supposedly my G-Ma's cousin, and my parents don't want anything to do with him or me

supposedly? unless i am mistaken, your great grandparents must have had at least two children; one being your grandmother, the other either leonard's mother or father - as that would make he and your grandmother first cousins. to verify this you need only to conduct a standard document search.

Yeah my memory isn't great, my grandma passed away many years ago and I don't think anyone else knew the lineage, so I can't remember exactly how she was related to him, but I believe it was cousins, I just am not 100% sure. She mentioned it to me only once, and being a young kid, not knowing who he was (no YouTube at that time!) I sort of just forgot about it....


I'm not proud of that, but that's life.

He's not the Messiah.

I am.

IMHO - I think Leonard Cohen, himself, would be the first to tell you that he's not a prophet, nor the Messiah!
That being said, I do believe his God-given talent with words is unparalleled. (Dylan is close---but I bet he'd argue with me on that ) I still think Cohen is a "secular psalmist", for lack of a better phrase. (I'm sure he could come up with a better one)

Most Jewish people, that I've talked to, really like him....and some of them are very traditional...do the Ultra-Orthodox not like him?

--Rain