Pope Benedict a.k.a. Ratzinger is at it again. Ratzinger who two years ago condemned Harry potter as "corrupt (a sentiment shared by Becky Fischer)," and who in his infinite wisdom cried that the Internet is bad, has confessed in his new book John Paul II, My Beloved Predecessor that he failed to stop Bob Dylan from playing for the late Pope. Wise that he is, Ratzinger believe without proof that Bob Dylan was a "prophet." A prophet who according to Ratzinger should not be allowed to appear in public stages. Ratzinger, who was just a Cardinal then, was forced to endure a set by Dylan.
This is not the first time Ratzinger superior musical taste snubbed modern music. Last year he altogether abolished the pop concert at Vatican, putting a stop to the annual Christmas fund raising musical event. He thereafter banned guitars from ever playing in a Church.
Ratzinger, a former member of the Nazi youth group, in The Spirit of the Liturgy of 2000, labeled rock festivals as a "cultic character, a form of worship," and declared rock and pop music as "anti-Christian." Ratzinger afterwards, in the epoch of his musical enlightenment, stated that rock is the work of Satan.
Medieval Music ala Ratzinger
Hear ye! Hear ye! I present to you the recipe for achieving Ratzinger's "Holy Music."
On Lucifer listening to Rock and Roll
You must not allow your children to listen to recordings known as rock and roll. They have been specifically created by Lucifer and his agents.
On Diabolical Dancing
Women must adorn themselves in modesty. Pagan practices of diabolical music is not condoned by the Eternal Father, nor shall We condone dancing and all manner of worldly entrance within the holy houses of God.
On Children listening to the Devil's Music
Because you are not accepting the graces given to you from Heaven, parents, you are not aware that your children are being brainwashed by Lucifer. He sends into your homes music. You accept these to make your children happy, but there is a power called witchcraft. Do not laugh as I tell you this.
On Rock 'n Roll Witches
Your children are bringing demons into your homes because, at the time that these records were produced, called 'rock, hard rock'—they were produced in the temple of Satan, consecrated to Satan. You do not understand, My children, but many of your companies, your record companies, are under the control of Wicca, the international organization of witches and warlocks. Do not laugh! It is true!
On Satan's Strings
The cavorting and the banjos and the guitars and the musical interludes and the dancing are all created by Satan. So you can understand that Satan has entered now with his armies in full regalia, appearing as humans. However, they are demons in disguise... We hear plucking away at the dervishly, and devilry, of what is called the musical Mass, strung by guitars, and other creations of Satan.
Bob Dylan is the Devil himself
Highway 61 Revisited (3 mins.):
Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"
Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"
God say, "No." Abe say, "What?"
God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but
The next time you see me comin' you better run"
Well Abe says, "Where do you want this killin' done?"
God says, "Out on Highway 61."
From Bob Dylan's Foot of Pride:
Well they'll choose a man for you to meet tonight
You'll play the fool and learn how to walk through doors
How to enter into the gates of paradise
No, how to carry a burden too heavy to be yours
Yeah, from the stage they'll be tryin' to get water outta rocks
A whore will pass the hat, collect a hundred grand and say thanks
They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in
Sing "Amazing Grace" all the way to the Swiss banks
See Also:
- Atheist Music Videos from Youtube
- Hitler: The Man who used Evangelical Christians to Massacre Atheists
- The Scariest Movie of the Year: Catholic Priest Raping Children
Haha. I'm trying to imagine how this makes Mike Turner feel. hehe
The middle ages called. They want their pope back.
God this makes me ashamed to be a Catholic right now.
You are reading too much into the various uninformed commentaries on this candid comment of Benedict XVI regarding the appearance of Bob Dylan in a youth event sponsored by the Catholic Church during which Pope John Paul II was also present. Definitely Cardinal Ratzinger then would have a reason for concern - Bob Dylan is not the sort of "prophet" the young would need in our times. Ganito yon - kung sa family reunion nyo may isang imbitadong sabihin nalang nating "strongly anti-family" natural para sa ibang members of the family ninyo this will be a cause for concern. Does this make you ashamed? Your ignorance of the real issue and story should make you very much ashamed.
Benj,
Mike turner will probably out-rock the Church. ;)
Ade,
The previous Pope is so much better than this one.
Anonymous,
Hmmm... so that's it! Thanks to you, now I know that Bob Dylan is not only a prophet but THE anti-family!
It's so clear now - The Catholic Church is the Mafia Family! Of course, it's so clear now, how did I miss the connection (ehem) the Godfather Part 3?
Ay naku hindi ka pala nakaintindi itong ibang "anonymous." The reference to the family in the previous comment was only analogical. Sana maintindihan naman nya kung anong ibig sabihin nyan. Yan ang problema sa maraming bagay dito sa mundo - lahat gusto magbigay ng comentaryo na hindi naman nila alam ang puno't dulo sa mga pangayayari.
Anonymous,
Could you be more obvious?
Can you cite the sources for this entry? Thanks.
Hi Traveller,
Thanks for visiting my blog. You can follow the links for the sources. If you want to delve deeper into the topic I suggest using search tools such as google, google news, technorati, etc.
Thanks again for visiting. =)
Isn't Mike Turner a baptist? I guess he doesn't believe in the pope's authority anyway. He visited my blog once to pimp his solo project. hehe
hhhmmm... maybe he's a friend of tipper gore...
IMHO, he's as tightass...
...he should meet dee snider! heheheh...
the truth is.....
this is another victor for rock 'n roll! ;)
Ratzinger is deluded. He's an improvement from his senile predecessor.
cheers!
Tony
hahaha...
1. Whenever I read your entries, I feel somehow ashamed of my blog...that it doesn't have the same balance of entertainment and substance as yours=P
2. Ratzinger looks like Gollum from LOTR...or something else devillish.
3. Is religious irreverence going to be your blog's niche now?=P
4. Ang panget naman ng pic ko sa blog mo!=P
Hi Sorsi,
Hahaha, akala ko ako lang nakapansin sa Gollum connection.
I am planning on breaking up my blog, too many topics nah. Love topic will probably stay here.
All your pics are (ehem) *insert good adjective here* You can send me the link to your preffered pic though.
Well. Ano kaya ang masasabi ni Pope Rocksinger about sa pagbabawal ng simbahang katoliko sa mga pari sa pag-aasawa, at sa mga meyembro nito sa pagkain ng lamang kati sa panahon ng mahal na araw? Hindi bat ang mga yan ay aral ng demonyo ayon sa I Tim 4:6? E, mga sinaunang papa ang nagturo ng mga aral na ito... ibig bang sabihin mga demonyo ang mga papang iyon?
Anyway, hindi po sa naninira... ito'y para kikilos mga isip ng may Basang Panaginip!
Yours,
SELaplana
Pope John Paul II could've lived a little longer.
@Ade
You can be an agnostic for a while. haha
i hope his comments on rock and other stuff will be out in the mainstream media here in the philippines, same with the mother theresa bullshit so more people can think for themselves.
sorsi said..
2. Ratzinger looks like Gollum from LOTR...or something else devillish.
something devillish? try this http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd153/laughlose/religion/54563229443a9db507513b.gif
I COMMAND YOU IN THE NAME OF LUCIFER!! SPREAD THE BLOOD OF THE INNOCENT!! MUWAHAHAHAHAH!!!
CHICAGO KICKS ASS!!
WHY NOT JUDGE FOR YOURSELF WHAT IS SATANIC MUSIC AND WHAT IS NOT
WHY DOES THE POPE HATE SO MANY THINGS? EVEN ROCK 'N ROLL?
Just to get it clear this time, for Der Papst has many hatreds to tell us about. They stretch over so many centuries that we -- the faithful followers -- cannot keep track of them, even with the aid of armies of priests, nuns, bishops, Opus Dei and the like -- not to mention the billions and billions of taxpayers' monies in every country.
The neurotic legions of the Pope's liege lackies -- the hidden thousands of Opus Dei warriors, spread out in every Civil Service, Police Force, Parliament, Law Library and Judges' Bench in the Western world -- were out in force telling us that John Paul 11 was a rock star, he even played the guitar and told them in Austria (believe it or not) to make babies. What do Catholic schools need most? Catholic Austrian babies! (As it happens, the black non-catholic babies in Ireland can't even get into a school -- the church owns them all, while the 'Republic' looks on. ! And the Roma are not Catholic enough to stay in Catholic Ireland either!)
Now, a few years later, we get another Pope, but I don't think the message is really different. It's just that the liege lackies are given web-sites all over the world, so that they can blog themselves to a drug-like sleep every year without a hint of what they said they year before. Some say the Vatican is buying into Google to save the souls of bloggers. The idea of history and integrity (secular integrity,that is) are unheard of in the religious bubble.
But judge for yourself, what the Pope is up to. What exactly is the Pope saying about Rock?
The Vatican, apparently, is concerned that young people are being exposed to Satanism through the media, of rock music and the Internet.
Under medieval Canon Law (1172) all priests -- the ones with the holy fingers -- can perform exorcisms. But in reality only a select few are ever called on to do so.
Personally, I attribute all this nonsense to the denial of woman -- and all these pedophelia cases are a reflection on the proprietorial notions of what must be a perverted church.
Without going into the history of either music or the Vatican's peculiar notions of music , let us put the argument in a simple context. Needless to say the infinitely lugubrious tones of Gregorian Chant, the Vatican finds OK. Even Mozart is OK, because Benedict XV1 dabbles on the old harpsichord. But when poor Mozart was alive,he could not get away from Bishops, especially Bishop Colarado, his master.
In more modern time, of course, when you wanted a Pope with a little pluck to ban music, you could not find one. For example, the Papacy never condemned this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhS4px-xuqU#5IAG_j6JXes
or this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxL0w90dZdI&feature=related
The present Pope remembers both of these above tunes, because he served the Wehrmacht as a Hitlerjugend with these very dulcet tones in his own ears. Now, he has decided to condemn rock, as in Rock 'n Roll. He has no wife and he has no children, that is, no one in the Vatican whose lives, customs and habits he could refer to over the last sixty years.
And one should not forget that Dvorak's waternymph is a pagan also. Mind you, if the censorious Vatican also banishes this, It is time to nuke it. But it should be born in mind that the Christian has cut out all pagan knowledge from the known world, the most horrific example of that, of course, is Ireland, where the people don't even remember the initial Christian treachery or , or , for that matter, the sound of their own native language.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdFBA2r-FiE
Notwithstanding the Papacy's history of savage ignorance and brutality and repression, Benedict XVI feels he can take it upon himslef to condemns rockers. People , therefore, like Tina Turner ,for example, a fine unrepentent chanting Buddhist, is expected to go the way of Paul Robeson and a new-age McCarthyism. This is what the Pope wants to ban:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwsGanJ-oUQ&feature=related
One must wonder if the Infallible One is badly advised, or has that old celibate grind caught up with him at last, or is it just his conversation with Habermas .
As a war baby and not far from the Pope's age, I can say ,thankfully, that without the need for drugs, religious or chemical, I am personally quite happy if the Pope could be prevented from stirring up or preaching any more crusades in Europe or elsewhere, and that includes preaching agasint youth or trying to divide and destroy them in order to bring them under his will.
At least then , even if one enters the mad-cap company of FitzGeraldo, one can go back to sleep on YouTube by listening to ordinary things like these two old warblers and 'gamle flibbers' :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O85Kxovra_Q&feature=related
So, if you have listened to the above music, what do you think? Now that the Pope has told you what he thinks about music, maybe you should tell him what your think about his choices!
Seamus Breathnach
www.irish-criminology.com
I love rock music, right, and just because you disagree with what the Pope has does not really mean you need to ridicule his position.
I am a Catholic, I like rock. Be respectful to a good man.
btw, reference to his time in the Hitler youth is very shallow and unfair. Come on.
Eoghan