Guest Post by Antonius Aquinas
Has Got to GO!
Those who believe that the Western world can solely be turned around by the enactment of sound economic policies are sadly mistaken. Until the Left is not only defeated, but annihilate in the culture war, the decline of the West both economically and socially will continue as recently witnessed by the “controversy” over the use of public bathrooms by perverts.
To accomplish such a necessary task, those on the Right must identify the means and mechanism by which liberalism has so adroitly used to accomplish the cultural transformation.
No finer example of the Left’s use of a medium for its depraved ends can be seen in that of rock “music.” It is safe to say that rock ‘n’ roll has done more to undermine public morality than all of the judicial activism and welfare legislation enacted throughout the past half century or so. And, without a conducive social atmosphere created by such music, it is doubtful that the sexual revolution and its perverse byproducts such as militant homosexuality and feminism would have ever flourished.
While initially rock was relatively innocuous, it, nevertheless, was subversive to traditional morality. Most rock songs are couched in cleverly worded lyrics which promote promiscuity, vices such as drug use, and frequently mocks Christianity, all of which has led to the corruption and eventual ruination of countless lives.
Yet, despite these well established sociological “facts” of rock ‘n’ roll’s corrupting influence, those among the Right have long ago accepted this insidious form of music. In fact, many actually promote it. Rock is used as lead-in and background music to conservative television and radio programs while publications carry reviews of rock albums and concerts with writers often boasting about attending such events with their wives and children in tow.
After the recent passing of the degenerate and truly odd character who went by the name of “Prince,” a number of conservative outlets praised his “music” while one popular radio and television personality attempted to make the case that Prince was an opponent of the New World Order!
At one time, the culture war was an integral part of the political discourse, however, the debate over the issues of that war have been abandoned. The acceptance of rock music by the Right is another demonstration of how it has succumbed to nearly all of liberalism’s premises.
The Left has understood (and still does) that through mediums such as television, motion pictures, and music, they could accomplish their agenda despite setbacks in the political arena. While unsuccessful for a time in politics, they were, nevertheless, winning the important cultural battles and it was through rock music that society was gradually transformed.
There is, thus, no need for those who seek a return to traditional society to celebrate and embrace rock music, instead it should be treated with scorn. But, it must first be recognized for the evil that it is.
While rock music must be understood for what it represents and debunked for its part in the triumph of the counterculture, an alternative should also be offered. Happily, one can be readily found in the sublime and societal enhancing music of such masters as Brahms, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart and Tchaikovsky.
Better still, St. Augustine reportedly remarked, “Qui cantat, bis orat” (“A person who sings prays twice”). When Western man’s Creator is once again prayed to through the music of such greats as Palestrina, Victoria, and Byrd throughout all the lands will the cultural war be won and society revitalized while rock music will be a distant and regrettable memory of a troubled time.
Prince was speaking about chemtrails.
This entire essay is idiotic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O1v_7T6p8U
I call bullshit. Well, maybe Rap would fit.
Admin ,El Coyote , you guys got that. No more Damn devil worshipping rock.music videos.Go on YouTube and watch… they gave their souls for rock and roll ..about Pink Floyd and the rest of these degenerate reprobates .You’ll never veiw rock and rock as innocent music ever again.This includes Elvis Presley ,the Beatles , Rolling stones . Earlier Black music is even worse.
What a maroon.
What do you people not understand about not glorifying devil music. You do know the devil was the first Rock musician.Who says so ….God .
The music, TV and movies of the 30s-80s or so was OK but the stuff for the last 30 years or so is NWO Demonic crap; Country Music went to Hell and I stopped listening to the radio 15 years ago and TV 5 years ago. Now my computer shuts down and “updates” all kinds of crap so frequently I am about to abandon this government spy box. Like the Russians and their political slave-nations about 1990, America needs a “Common Core” Reset Revival of Conservative Constitutional government and Christianity and the Leftist Oligarch Detritus convert or perish; the FEMA Death Camps TPTB constructed for US would work nicely on them too. Vote anti-NWO Trump and pray for God’s will to be done in America and if enough people ask (ref 2Chron7:14), TPTB will be dealt with like Jezebel and Sodom were.
i doubt that even 20% of this country will ever awake when their judgement is clouded like this.
rock and roll as the great evil? what a joke
Ok last time ,Ezekiel 28 12-19 …You were the seal of perfection. Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes was prepared for you on the day you were Created.
In other words Satan was the best God could Create . In wisdom , beauty and musical talent . Think about that.
As much as I enjoyed rock and roll and its variants, I believe the author is correct. The unfortunate thing is that I am unaware of a society that regardless of it’s wishes or intentions is truly willing to compare what is good, better and best, morally speaking with an absolute standard. The absolute standard must be God or minimally something existential or it is nothing more than opinion, even if it is popular. The other option, is for a society to collapse and something else to rise up in its place, for better or worse. This, history shows is a much more likely outcome.
It’s Elvis’ fault. 🙂
He’s joking…I think.
What bb was saying – although lacking in clarity somewhat – is to go onto YOUTUBE ..and query – THEY SOLD THEIR SOULS FOR ROCK AND ROLL. You should come up with a series of videos (its 7-9 hours in length total I believe) that chronicles the history and background of rock n roll and contemporary music for that matter. You should be shocked as to what musicians claim has been their inspiration and where their allegiance lies. I never realized how EVIL rock music truly is until I opened my mind and did some background research. Rather than some smarmy put-down … go on youtube and investigate this for yourself. Readers of TBP claim they are in possession of open minds and continually strive for the truth. So then prove it. Invest the time, pull back the veil and examine the extent to which satan influences our lives in order to seal our doom. Or not.
I’m kinda dumbfounded by this person’s logic. Is it intended as piece for “The Onion”? Is Antonius Aquinas really serious when he writes “Most rock songs are couched in cleverly worded lyrics which promote promiscuity, vices such as drug use, and frequently mocks Christianity, all of which has led to the corruption and eventual ruination of countless lives.”? Give me a break…
A quick look at today’s headlines [on Drudgereport.com] shows far more disturbing things happening than this ill-founded tirade about rock music:
Russia and Israeli Planes Near Dogfight…
‘Cannibal’ woman ‘tried to eat friend’s face’…
Scientists Create Embryos That Are Both ANIMAL And HUMAN…
Mob burns Venezuelan man alive over $5 as rule of law fails…
And then there’s this–FLAKKA drug making people act like demons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-N2LwJL75g
motley3….Satan only exists in the minds of those that allow fantasy; you do have a valid point on doing research before condemning this article (which is Bull-Shit).
@Rise Up … Yes, your examples are much worse than R&R itself, but I don’t believe that Aquinas is suggesting that R&R is the single cause of our problems. R&R has been used as a method of subversion of morality as have many other things. Something fairly unique about R&R is it’s almost universal appear and I suppose therefore it’s universal acceptance as a form of expression and entertainment that can’t be challenged as on average a negative influence on society. Maybe it is because it appeals to the youth in all of us. It has been a perfect example of the slippery slope, I am speaking about it on the average.
Free will and lack of judgement, so says the Good Book, time and time and time again.
Nope, keep believing that legislating others’ behavior and morality will magically bring upon the Utopia that the god-fearing have been promised for 2000 years.
It won’t
What would is love, acceptance and to stop worrying about the common man and his behavior until AFTER we rout the evil and their lackeys out of our corporations and governments.
Nah, let’s continue helping the elite keep us in chains, after all, they are chains that so many WANT.
If you are in the middle, just want to live and let live, there is no where left in the West for you. For me.
I don’t want to hate others, I don’t want to fear music, I don’t want everyone else to control me.
I feel so alone.
So many lies and myths, so little want to uncover them. Blinders, it’s what’s for dinner in the US.
@2compare, yes, maybe early rock music offended the most religious in society (re: Elvis Presley’s swinging hips), and there have been a smattering of Satanic references in rock music over the years, but I think lately the occasional Satanic influence (yes, Yoda, there IS a Satan) is more from those FEW song “artists”, mostly hip-hop, who allow that influence to rule their lives which spills over into their music.
I believe that overall rock&roll is benign.
Been listening to R&R for the last 2 hours. I feeeel so corrupted. I almost SAW Satan.
Fucking stupid.
Do you see the loss of morality; the Horror, the Horror………………..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiF-q2h7tSA
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A year after it ravaged South Florida, flakka — the synthetic street drug known for causing psychotic outbursts — is virtually gone. The deaths. The hallucinating users. The arrests. All of it.
Broward County became infamous as the epicenter for the amphetamine, making national headlines in April 2015 after slowly building on the scene for several months. Users tore off clothes as their body temperatures spiked to 105 degrees. Some hallucinated that they were gods or that they were being chased. One man impaled himself on a police department fence he tried to scale to escape his imaginary pursuers.
Over 16 months, 63 flakka users died in Fort Lauderdale and its suburbs — overdoses, accidents, suicides and homicides, according to law enforcement officials.
Then, about three months ago, it stopped.
“I have never seen a drug gain popularity so rapidly and be eliminated so quickly,” Broward Sheriff Scott Israel said.
rest of story here — http://www.cbsnews.com/news/after-ravaging-florida-street-drug-flakka-disappears/
[img]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BniO017oeTM[/img]
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“I have never seen a drug gain popularity so rapidly and be eliminated so quickly,” Broward Sheriff Scott Israel said.
@Stucky – Glad to read that it’s eliminated now!
Motley 3 ,bless you for the clarification.
Rise up ,scary but a good warning to all.This is another reason I carry a gun with me everywhere I go.Either on my person or in my private vehicles or commercial truck. Got pistols for each.
Brothers and Sisters of TBP,
Hearken unto me, for the Spirit of the Lord has come upon me, and Da Lawd spoke unto me that He wishes ye gird yourselves with the Sword of Truth, that ye listen and heed the words of his Prophet, Stucky (that would be me), and this is His message; ROCK’N’ROLL IS EEEEVIL AND YOU FUCKERS WHO LISTEN TO IT SHALL BURN IN HELLFIRE FOREVER!!!” .
This is especially true for Admin — aka, Admenstruater — who continuously poisons the minds of his readers with his evil bullshit “Who does it better” rock ‘n roll videos. JEEBUS does it better, Admin! You fucken reprobate sinner! You better change your ways before Da Lawd strikes you dead. Really.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9qvMBByt16w
Is this a real article? Is anyone actually this stupid (no offense to you in particular, bb)? Can anyone be so fucking retarded as to even imagine a government imposed ban on Rock ‘n Roll? Can the author have even the slightest scrap of credibility when he claims to want the Righteous Right to champion pissing all over the First Amendment? Again, how can anyone be this fucking stupid? Censorship always ends the same fucking way? Why the fuck is this even a thing?
Antonious is either out of touch with reality or a person who should be directing his brilliant trolling skills towards presidential candidates.
Rock &Roll, hip hop, blues are all singing about actual life. Not some vision of how they want to shape the world. Drugs are part of life. Sexual contact is part of life.
By the way, go watch Purple Rain. If nothing else Prince had enormous balls.
“Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. ”
———– 1 Peter 5:8
Perhaps the above verse is the reason many Christians are CONSTANTLY on the lookout for Satanic influences in culture? And, sure enough, once you actively look for something … you will surely find it. The devil is … everywhere!! Off the top of my head, some things in my lifetime that have been attributed to ol’ Nick;
— jazz ……. ““Jazz originally was the accompaniment of the voodoo dancer, stimulating the half-crazed barbarian to the vilest deeds. The weird chant, accompanied by the syncopated rhythm of the voodoo invokers, has also been employed by other barbaric people to stimulate brutality and sensuality. That it has a demoralizing effect upon the human brain has been demonstrated by many scientists.” (Womans Home Journal, 1921)
— long hair
— mini skirts
— women wearing pants
— drums
— Henry Kissinger
— movies
— video games
— yoga
— martial arts
— masturbation
The Bible is filled with verses about music, various musical instruments, singing, dancing, and all of Psalms is basically a song book.
However … and you can take this to the bank ….. there is not one single Scripture whereby the Bible actually speaks to musical STYLES. Not one. I have never found one verse that even remotely indicates that God gives a rat’s ass about how music dots are arranged on a piece of paper.
You know who does care? Deluded people who claim they speak for God. Liars who twist and rip scriptural verses out of context. Control freaks who claim to know better than you. In other words, people like the author of this horseshit article.
This is no time for smart ass remarks . This is serious. Stucky , I look forward to the next reunion .I’m going to.slap some sense into you big boy.One of us is getting stupider day by day .I don’t think it’s me.
Now I command you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to repent from your evil milky mouse ways.
Watch … THEY SOLD THEIR SOULS FOR ROCK AND ROLL.. Listen to these people in their own words.
FUCK YOU!
Pearl Jam with Neil Young- Rockin in the free world
If you think Rock is bad I’d hate to see your opinion of (c)rap music.
The article and most of the comments need a sarc tag
IGRO ,if you directed that fuck you towards my comments it only shows me how woefully stupid you are.It tells me exactly what you are without knowing anything about. Kinda like when people say they are liberals . All I need to know.
End of discussion.
bb says: Admin ,El Coyote , you guys got that.
El Coyoncito never commented. Do you read minds now?
yikes! who knew? Strong energy.
one thing for sure, I do not want to meet any flakka people.
Did this just fall through a time warp from 1959? Ever listened to Rap “Music” ? Rock and roll is so tame by comparison. Rap is just misogyny, hate, drugs and racism put to noise.