If you like Rock’N’Roll, your going to...

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   ...burn in Hell!!! According to the new Pope

A while back someone posted listened to Christian rock groups and I heard rumours that Ratzinger is a declared enemy of rock music, and denounced many of the most important musicians as satanic or whatever in a mass in 1996, so I googled for that and found the following news item:

  wrote:

Rock 'n roll contains "subliminal" evil influences and is repleat with "diabolical and satanic messages" according to a leading official of the Roman Catholic Church. Cardinal [now pope] Joseph Ratzinger made the remarks at a mass in Rome commemorating the feast of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music. Ratzinger is Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the modern-day version of the Office of the Holy Inquisition; the London Times describes the Cardinal as "the highest moral authority in the Vatican after the Pope. His stern admonishment and even excommunication of dissident theologians has earned him a fearsome reputation." ... Cardinal Ratzinger's pronouncement on the evils of contemporary pop music underscore the reactionary, even frightening stand the church maintains on other issues including the role of women, **edited** rights, abortion and censorship. The Cardinal warned that heavy metal music was particularly offensive, and branded rock n' roll an "instrument of the Devil" which young people should avoid listening to "for fear of endangering their souls (London Times)." He singled out musical groups, including Pink Floyd, Queen, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, the Eagles and, of course, the Rolling Stones. He also called on members of heavy metal bands to "purify themselves."

Although Ratzinger evinced a surprising repertoire of music, The Times notes that Vatican officials have listed as "worst offenders" Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, and the group AC/DC. The Times noted that church leaders claim that the latter initials "referred not to alternating current or even bisexuality, but to the satanic phrase "Antichrist, Death to Christ."

Hadn't heard that one before...they're sure getting more creative these days...haha. Reminds one of the Simpsons episode where Bart is informed of a Christian rock concert, and he huffs, “Everybody knows that all the best bands are affiliated with Satan.”

 www.christianitytoday.com: wrote:

In an essay on liturgy, Roman Catholic Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, our new pope (sic), called rock music "an expression of base passions which, in large musical gatherings, assumes cult characteristics or even becomes a counter-cult opposed to Christianity." Such music, he says, seeks to falsely "liberate man through a phenomenon of mass, underpinned by rhythm, noise and lighting effects." Pop music, meanwhile, creates "an industrially-produced … cult of banality." And even opera has "eaten away at the sacred" in the last century.

 random source wrote:

Ratzinger wrote that rock “has become the decisive vehicle of a counter-religion. ... Rock music is completely antithetical to the Christian concept of redemption and freedom, indeed its exact opposite.”

There is going to be one hell of a party in Hell, hope to see you there.