Well, yeah, not to mention all that awful "Christian Rock." (Reply #42)

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Sat May 19, 2018, 12:45 AM

42. Well, yeah, not to mention all that awful "Christian Rock."

Then again, there's all that amazing Gospel Music.

Like most everything, there's some good, lots of bad, some amazing (Mozart's Requiem, most everything by Bach) some hideously awful (Jesus Christ Superstar) and lots and lots of shit too dull even to be remembered.

Gluck's Orpheus is pretty amazing. The other day I saw Cocteau's "Orpheus" which used a lot of Gluck as sound track.

Wasn't Orpheus something like a god? Mythological anyway. And without the gods to mock, Aristophanes would have been right out of a job. But then again, we wouldn't have had all those cheesy Italian Hercules movies.

Just gotta take the bad with the good, I suppose.

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60 replies	Author	Time	Post
What if gods never existed? [View all]	Voltaire2	May 2018	OP
Maybe...	SoFlaDem	May 2018	#1
Why, then, do atheists not feel that way?	MineralMan	May 2018	#2
Plenty of theists believe atheists do feel that way	Mariana	May 2018	#9
I know. But we don't feel that way. We understand	MineralMan	May 2018	#10
I am not arguing for religion	SoFlaDem	May 2018	#14
I didn't ask about belief in gods.	Voltaire2	May 2018	#3
I'm sorry	SoFlaDem	May 2018	#15
The poster merely clarified the question for you	Mariana	May 2018	#17
I was just trying to make the question I asked clear.	Voltaire2	May 2018	#19
To quote Antonio Porchia	Snotcicles	May 2018	#52
Religions pit groups of people against	Duppers	May 2018	#13
like it is now..	LSFL	May 2018	#4
...	Voltaire2	May 2018	#7
I wouldn't have had to sit through...	Liberalhammer	May 2018	#5
Not necessarily.	Mariana	May 2018	#11
Coitus wouldn't wake up the neighbors	Major Nikon	May 2018	#6
Omfg.	Voltaire2	May 2018	#20
There are no gods.	BigmanPigman	May 2018	#8
I think the question is a good one just the way it is.	Mariana	May 2018	#12
for those who believe gods exist the	Voltaire2	May 2018	#21
Arn't gods just a construct of the human mind?	mitch96	May 2018	#16
Well I think they are, but other people think	Voltaire2	May 2018	#18
A world with out a god...hummm	mitch96	May 2018	#22
But I see no reason why religion wouldn't exist.	Voltaire2	May 2018	#23
You obviously liked my post.	guillaumeb	May 2018	#24
Your question implies that gods exist.	guillaumeb	May 2018	#25
Nope. Let me clarify.	Voltaire2	May 2018	#26
Understood.	guillaumeb	May 2018	#28
Well sure. I think it is vanishingly unlikely	Voltaire2	May 2018	#45
Voltaire disagreed. eom	guillaumeb	May 2018	#59
Well no. Again you seem to think the question	Voltaire2	May 2018	#60
In other words...	Major Nikon	May 2018	#58
Exactly as you are experiencing it now	RockRaven	May 2018	#27
Or...........	guillaumeb	May 2018	#29
it's all I have evidence for or reason to believe	RockRaven	May 2018	#33
I understand your position. eom	guillaumeb	May 2018	#34
Right	elleng	May 2018	#36
Depends what your definition of existed is.	Sneederbunk	May 2018	#30
Probably be a lot fewer wars nt	doc03	May 2018	#31
Fewer Charleton Heston movies.	progressoid	May 2018	#32
As it does.	elleng	May 2018	#35
We wouldn't have Bach's Mass in B Minor	thucythucy	May 2018	#37
But what about Wagner!!??	edhopper	May 2018	#40
Well, yeah, not to mention all that awful "Christian Rock."	thucythucy	May 2018	#42
And we couldn't collect these	edhopper	May 2018	#51
Yikes!	thucythucy	May 2018	#53
Those are creepy as hell. Just saying. nt.	Mariana	May 2018	#56
Why? Religion does not require that gods exist.	Voltaire2	May 2018	#43
Quite right.	thucythucy	May 2018	#49
I don't think you know how art works	Cartoonist	May 2018	#48
You mean what if men never invented gods.	gibraltar72	May 2018	#38
No. I mean if it is a fact about the world.	Voltaire2	May 2018	#46
It would look exactly the same	edhopper	May 2018	#39
I think it would be a vast void	thinkingagain	May 2018	#41
Again you are referring to belief in gods.	Voltaire2	May 2018	#44
Maybe you can tell us how you think it would be different	thinkingagain	May 2018	#47
I think this world is exactly that: a world	Voltaire2	May 2018	#50
Better.	Snackshack	May 2018	#54
Man would conger up a different loophole to escape responsibility for being inhumane. nt	Snotcicles	May 2018	#55
Exactly...	NeoGreen	May 2018	#57

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