Musica

Music, a wonderful gift from God and a talent for many, can definitely be enjoyable, beneficial, and relaxing or it can be a tool of the devil to drag souls from true enjoyment and innocent relaxation. They say music is the language of the soul. Knowing this the devil distorts music so as to divert from truly beautiful music like gorgeous Gregorian chant, militant band music, and so on.
Music like Rock’n’roll, rap, modern country and the like are full of cynical notes, and immoral themes. Rock’n’roll gets its foundation from Satanism. In the beginning of the 60’s rock’n’roll was purely Satanic with lyrics like, “I’m on the highway to Hell” or “my lord Satan.” The authors and singers of these songs are, this is public knowledge, drug addicts, immoral and disgusting, and their other acts are too awful for discussion. Many committed suicide in an attempt to escape the depression of their acts. We pray that they repented, before committing this crime against God. Rock’n’roll singers have actually admitted that they were not the authors of some of their songs. One author said he just got up to the mike and without thinking screamed whatever words came to his mind. At concerts people scream and throw themselves around to the point of exhaustion. You call this good music? Rock’n’roll itself admits its evil powes. In the Fifth studio recording by the American rock and roll band, The Supersuckers there is a song called “The Evil Powers of Rock 'n' Roll" and they also have song that admits the attempted submission of the soul by music “I Can't Hold Myself In Line." Ok, then the reader declares, “Why worry about Rock’n’roll anyways. It is practically dead.” Ok, but its aspects and rules apply to several styles today.
As for Rap, can that even be considered music? Let us look at the definition of music. Music is an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color. In Rap a man or group of men just talk with music in the background. Music? A deformation of it most likely. I could go through several more genres of music and show my problems with them, but that would take a book. One point in music that is generally helpful in discerning problem music is that it calls to your "base" nature. By that I mean music whose tone or beat makes you want to either go with the beat or flow with the tone. Beat is very interesting. There are two different types of beat. The beat that keeps time, like in military bands or in Irish or Folk bands, are good, for they are keeping the other instruments in time. They also add to the music, but do not call to your "base" nature. The other beat is the beat that makes you involved in the music. It rocks your soul and makes you to just want to let go of yourself and submit yourself to the music. This is, of course, bad because God created man as head of creation with an intelligence and therefore he should always be in control of himself and not act according to his instinct, which wants him to let go of himself and submit himself to the music. Why do people abandon beautiful music nowadays? While rock' n 'roll and rap cds get more popular less and less you see liturgical hymns or harmless folk music. Evil is taking over. You take me for a pessimist? Look at the cd stores. You have seen the music section in your local Barnes and Noble and and Borders stores. All you have to do is look at the cover to see the foul impurity or evil tones that the cd contains. The stores are overflowing with this junk.
God help us. Pray to end this persecution of good. Our Lady, defender of the pure, guide and protect us! - J. Thomas Schutzman