RE: Religious people - Which music is pure?
June 22, 2015 at 6:35 pm
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2015 at 6:40 pm by Metis.)
My boyfreind is a former Catholic, and the general prescription they're apparently given is that they can listen to anything provided it doesn't contain...
A) Heresy: So any songs saying Mary got some action are out. There's a bit of a blurred line here and it isn't always followed, since in English speaking countries many of the hymns they use were actually devised by Anglicans and Methodists so not all the words are peachy. In French/Italian speaking countries they follow it a bit closer.
I believe I've seen "Let it Go" from Frozen and "Imagine" from Lennon both condemned as heretical by the Catholic Herald although thats nothing special, the Evanglical Charisma news and several Baptist papers did it too. Think the Herald whined about Let it go being "an anti-Catholic homosexualist anthem" and Imagine for being plain old blasphemy
Matter of personal opinion really.
B) Hymns to false Gods: So no dancing with the Hare Krishnas
C) Immorality: Anything that contains references to sex, so pretty much 90% of the current chart list is out.
D) Any songs banned by name: Madonna's Like a Prayer comes to mind.
That said most of them don't actually adhere to it, I've heard Katy Perry's "Dark Horse" with Juicy J going on about Katy's bedroom being like a fairground coming from the cars of his supposedly devout relatives.
A) Heresy: So any songs saying Mary got some action are out. There's a bit of a blurred line here and it isn't always followed, since in English speaking countries many of the hymns they use were actually devised by Anglicans and Methodists so not all the words are peachy. In French/Italian speaking countries they follow it a bit closer.
I believe I've seen "Let it Go" from Frozen and "Imagine" from Lennon both condemned as heretical by the Catholic Herald although thats nothing special, the Evanglical Charisma news and several Baptist papers did it too. Think the Herald whined about Let it go being "an anti-Catholic homosexualist anthem" and Imagine for being plain old blasphemy
Matter of personal opinion really.B) Hymns to false Gods: So no dancing with the Hare Krishnas
C) Immorality: Anything that contains references to sex, so pretty much 90% of the current chart list is out.
D) Any songs banned by name: Madonna's Like a Prayer comes to mind.
That said most of them don't actually adhere to it, I've heard Katy Perry's "Dark Horse" with Juicy J going on about Katy's bedroom being like a fairground coming from the cars of his supposedly devout relatives.
