What is a particular creative piece -- a work of art, a book, a movie, a song, a performance, anything -- that has a religious theme or overtones, and yet you can't help but like it or even love it?
I'm thinking of this because on Easter Sunday there will be a live broadcast of Jesus Christ Superstar with a pretty cool cast. Being raised Jewish and being an agnostic, one would think I'd get myself far away from this. But this show has one of Andrew Lloyd Webber's best scores and awesome songs, I've liked it for years, and I'm very much looking forward to the broadcast.
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Art for arts sake, it's origin doesn't change the art unlesss to deepen it. Hating art or liking it is still a reaction, which is what art is supposed to evoke...a response. Indifference is the real critique of art. Xstian architecture can be awesome...stained glass...awesome...sistine chapel, amazing...egyptian hieroglyphs, awe inspring....etc, etc, etc....
JohnnyThorazine
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Mar 18, 2018
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@Katastrophe1969 I always have to remember that this is only my opinion...the 'blah', which is so very apt...when I hear the beatles, I go 'blah'...and most people become aghast...haha...
Faust I love how far a person is willing to go, how much they'd sacrifice. Of course Dracula. I love Skillet even though they're a Christian band. Les miserables
LadyAlyxandrea
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Mar 18, 2018
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Les Miserables. Brilliant, but where's the religious connection?
@JoelLovell While Victor Hugo was not really an Xian, he might have been considered a Deist. Regardless, from a religious viewpoint, it definitely points to redemption, a key construct in religion, IMHO.
@JoelLovell basically the entire show? From Jean Valjean's meeting the priest and seeking redemption to Javert's conflicting of "oh god why is he a criminal, yet a good guy?"
@LadyAlyxandrea are we all talking about the musical with Hugh Jackman? Coz I am.
@JoelLovell The inability of a man who considered himself righteous to forgive.
@JoelLovell I am. Jean Valjean's motive was entirely religious
There are many things with religious notions that I enjoy being it music, films even some of my favorite comic books have some basis in religion
Rockandroll134
Level 6
Mar 18, 2018
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I still enjoy Madeleine L'Engle's books, and Christianity was important. Same with Shakespeare, not to mention CS Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia.
Music by the Cruxshadows, who regularly use religious references as a shortcut in their music. Old music written by Hildegard von Bingen in the Medieval era.
For that matter, the reboot of Battlestar Galactica had a lot of religion in it, especially the two season spinoff Caprica (which I don't like). Babylon 5 had a lot of religious references as well.
TaraMarshall
Level 7
Mar 18, 2018
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Gulliver's Travels. It only pretends to have religious overtones, but Jonathan Swift was actually writing brutal social satire.
birdingnut
Level 8
Mar 18, 2018
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"There, but for the grace of God, go I."
I interprete it as an affirmation that if it weren't because of a twist of blind luck, I could be the one suffering.
Reignmond
Level 7
Mar 18, 2018
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@atheist I get your point, but your version just doesn't have that ring, that zip, that zing that says 'I'm a mantra worth repeating.'
Amazing Grace on bagpipes. It should never be sung! Back home in Niagara Falls, there was a Canadien Scot who played in the Niagara Gorge. Miss it.
Reignmond
Level 7
Mar 18, 2018
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Always gets me...
This was my mom's favorite song. There were 8 of us kids and we'd sing it to her whenever she picked us up from the state home for visits.
I love churches and would love one as a house including the windows. I think of good and evil like in the tom and jerry cartoons ie they are within you and not outside forces controling you.
LeighShelton
Level 8
Mar 18, 2018
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Just brought "Alice's Restaurant" to mind. The song.
sorry, could you explain, please?
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