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Vatican paper names its top ten pop albums
Topic Started: Feb 26 2010, 07:55 PM (481 Views)
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Last year the Vatican advised the faithful which films to watch, finding merit even in Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. This year, because Europe faced a season of mediocre songs at music festivals, the newspaper explained, it was time to recommend an antidote in the form of classic pop milestones.

The Holy See’s top ten includes the 1982 album Thriller by Jackson, the video for which shows the late singer as a zombie dancing with other ghouls in a graveyard, and Pink Floyd’s meditation on time, death, mental illness and consumer greed, The Dark Side of the Moon.

The Beatles also make the list with Revolver, perhaps their most drugs-influenced, psychedelic album from 1966. In the song Eleanor Rigby Father McKenzie writes “the words of a sermon that no one will hear”. (snip)

The newspaper said that it had not included Bob Dylan — who sang for Pope John Paul II in 1997 at the World Eucharistic Festival in Bologna — partly because his “visionary poetry” had turned “Messianic” after his conversion to Christianity, but also because he inflicted on the world “three-note songs” that “tried the ears and patience of listeners”


Heh, who said the Church doesn't have a sense of humor?
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Haha I'd read about this. xD
"Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution." -G. K. Chesterton
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It sure makes for a nice change for all the Christian zealots who label Harry Potter as "Satan worship for kids."
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I never understood that anyhow.
Perhaps you'd know why, cow?
"There are strange things done in the midnight sun,
by the men who moil for gold; the arctic trails have their secret tales that'd make your blood run cold...
the Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see...
was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge, that I cremated Sam McGee."

- Robert W. Service
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The Catholic Church is a lot nicer than its protestant counterparts nowadays. You only see the Christian zealots coming from protestant churches now.
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*cough*IRA*/cough*
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@WW2, it's often as simple as fundfamentalist protestants taking old testament biblical passages denouncing witchcraft way too far. The other most prelevent places where the sentiment exist are in some Latin American countries where witchcraft is still heavily practiced and the issue is taken more seriously.
"Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution." -G. K. Chesterton
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@ Laz, it should be noted that one the IRA was denounced by the Catholic Church, but secondly, the IRA is fighting against centuries of cruelty by the British crown and parliment, and I can't help feel myself sympathetic.
"Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution." -G. K. Chesterton
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I would be able to empathise with the IRA and their cause, but targeting police stations and blowing up civilians is absolutely NOT the best way to get people to agree with your cause.
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Seems to work with you when Islamic terrorists do it.
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Lazurath
Feb 27 2010, 01:57 PM
*cough*IRA*/cough*
The IRA has calmed down too.
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Feb 28 2010, 02:05 AM
Lazurath
Feb 27 2010, 01:57 PM
*cough*IRA*/cough*
The IRA has calmed down too.
The IRA has..... PIRA hasn't. Or at least, they haven't renounced violence and still represent a constant threat.

(technically the IRA is at peace with the British Government, and is pursuing democratic methods. The PIRA is their violent offshoot)
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It seems to work with you when the Islamists do it.


Legend, will you stop with that already? :blah:


@Cow: Thanks, as usual, you have some good information on the topic :D
"There are strange things done in the midnight sun,
by the men who moil for gold; the arctic trails have their secret tales that'd make your blood run cold...
the Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see...
was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge, that I cremated Sam McGee."

- Robert W. Service
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Feb 28 2010, 01:01 AM
Seems to work with you when Islamic terrorists do it.
You got me. I support 9/11 and the Taliban.
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Omg and you are probably a commie too!
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It's a Conspuracy!














(I misspelled that intentionally, by the way)
"There are strange things done in the midnight sun,
by the men who moil for gold; the arctic trails have their secret tales that'd make your blood run cold...
the Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see...
was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge, that I cremated Sam McGee."

- Robert W. Service
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