(April 18, 2019 at 11:48 pm)Rahn127 Wrote: There is a YouTuber that does reaction videos to music he's never heard. The songs he listens to are classics, famous and popular in their time.
I love his reactions because you get to see someone hearing a fantastic piece of music for the first time as an adult. And this person is a musician who appreciates fine music.
What makes the entire scenario sad is that he was raised in a very religious household that shunned secular music, secular movies, secular tv shows, etc.
Only gospel music was allowed.
This is someone who grew up in the United States and had no idea who Johnny Cash was.
He had never heard the Righteous Brothers, Phil Collins, Pink Floyd, Diana Ross, Johnny Cash, the list goes on.
To see his face light up as these songs play is like watching someone who has been blind their whole life, see for the first time.
There are many beautiful and wonderful gospel songs and I say this as an atheist, but to deny someone music because it's not gospel almost seems criminal to me.
I'm glad he's now an adult living on his own and can decide for himself what music he wants to listen to.
It's one more reason why religion poisons everything it touches.
One of the grandest things about art (music, painting, sculpture, whatever) is the ability it has to transcend religious boundaries. Not only is it sad how often religion restricts access to great art, I find it deplorable that so many atheists don't give religious art a chance.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
