They Sold Their Souls For Rock N' Roll We
know what some of you are already thinking. 'Selling their souls? Come
ON now.' But this gripping documentary shows some of rock and
roll's most celebrated artists -
including Lennon, Morrison and Jagger - speaking about their ties to the
occult, IN THEIR OWN WORDS.
The content of this 4-hour series, chronicles the modern music
industry's ties to the occult over the past 75 years... Written in part
(and narrated) by pastor, researcher, and former hard rock musician Joe
Shimmel, it is an alarming spiritual awakening for ANYONE who wants to
know how violence, sexual immorality and blasphemy have been able to
completely infiltrate the powerful, billion-dollar music business... AND
the hearts and minds of those who listen to it!
Here is a
Bible study on Lucifer being a musical being, and when you combine this
with some of the lyrics and the message they send in much popular music
today, it's not difficult to see what is presented in this series of videos
as very valid and relevant to the spiritual condition of the world today.
China song-writers decry "unhealthy" pop tunes Reuters
(October 24, 2007) - A group of
conservative Chinese songwriters has denounced the emergence of
"vulgar" pop music on the Internet which they say is poisoning youth
with weird lyrics and lustful themes. The 40 composers, some of who
have written songs for Peng Liyuan, a famous singer married to
Shanghai Communist Party boss Xi Jinping, signed a petition calling
for a boycott of unhealthy online music and vowed to improve young
people's music appreciation through their own "outstanding" output.
"Music workers should firmly observe the socialist honors and
disgraces," a transcript of the petition carried by the official
People's Daily Web site (www.people.com.cn)
said, referring to a 2006 campaign launched by Communist Party chief
Hu Jintao to instill moral values in society. "(They should) resist
the incursion of unseemly content, abandon vulgarity ... and work
hard to compose outstanding online works that the people, and
especially the broader youth, love to hear." With state television
and radio broadcasts limited to bombastic patriotic blasts from the
past and benign pop, the popularity of online music has exploded in
China. China's censors have so far failed to control the Internet,
despite a massive surveillance machine and government campaigns to
stamp out "unhealthy content." The petition was signed at a seminar
held by the official Chinese Music Association last Friday during
the recently concluded Communist Party Congress, the newspaper said.
Delegates singled out online hits, including "Na Yi Ye" -- "That One
Night" -- by Xie Jun, a song about a couple who get drunk and spend
the night together. "That one night you didn't refuse me!/That one
night I hurt you/That one night you were all tears," are the raciest
lyrics. The attack on vulgar online music follows campaigns against
online pornography and bans on crass reality TV shows and "sexual
sounds" on the country's air-waves.
It seems that these
conservative Chinese recognize what the conservative Americans
spoke out against in the 60's. Only now the music industry is
far more blatant in their destruction of family and morals in
the world.
Here is an excerpt from the series above focused on Bono. I add this
because of his work with the UN
0:07:58
Can Bono Save The World?
Time Magazine
- In the past three years, in talking to politicians, aid workers, activists
and United Nations and development-bank officials, I have never heard a
single suggestion that the U2 singer was involved with the plight of the
world's poor for anything other than genuine concern. In part that's because
he has convinced the professionals that he does his homework. It's one thing
to hear celebrities talk about "doing something" for a cause. It's quite
another to hear a rock star give a lecture on "hipc conditionality," the
terms under which the most highly indebted countries of the world are
forgiven their loans. Bono also wins plaudits because he's not easily
typecast. Asking for more government funding for the developing world is a
quick way to get applause from liberal constituencies. But Bono stresses a
more subtle point, and one that often raises opposition on the political
left. For many nations, exporting agricultural commodities and cheap T
shirts is the best way to raise standards of living, yet as soon as they try
to do so, protectionist lobbies in the First World—French farmers, American
textile firms—scream bloody murder. Bono isn't swayed. "There is no
justification," he says, "for denying the very poorest countries market
access." More important, Bono has given a public face to the agenda of the
developing world at an important moment. Within the next six months, crucial
decisions will be made on the shape of the rich world's policies for poverty
reduction. Next month in Monterrey, Mexico, President Bush and other leaders
will gather to hash out the scale and terms of a new and expanded program of
financial assistance to the poorest countries. In the fall a conference in
Johannesburg will take stock of the progress toward the U.N.'s "millennium
goals" to eliminate extreme poverty and increase access to education and
health care. The model for a new approach is Jubilee 2000, which campaigned
with great success to reduce developing-world debt. Jubilee 2000 was based
in Europe, not the U.S., and its foot soldiers were not liberal activists
but churchgoers. I remember covering a huge demonstration at the 1999 G-8
summit in Cologne, Germany, that was led not by black-clad anarchists but by
nuns singing hymns. Bono's support for the campaign was critical; he gave a
patina of glamour to people who would otherwise have been dismissed as nice
but deeply unfashionable. Now he is convinced that the same coalition can be
built in the U.S. In the past few months, Bono has consistently stressed the
need for campaigners to work with church groups. Last week he told me of his
determination to reach out to "grassroots conservative Republicans." The
pitch to the Bush Administration for more foreign aid is deliberately aimed
to appeal to both self-interest and idealism. The war against terrorism,
Bono argues, needs to be accompanied by "the pursuit of a less dangerous
world for Americans, one where 'America' is once again a great idea,
contagious and inclusive." more...
Be not overcome
of evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 12:21
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We
know what some of you are already thinking. 'Selling their souls? Come
ON now.' But this gripping documentary shows some of rock and
roll's most celebrated artists -
including Lennon, Morrison and Jagger - speaking about their ties to the
occult, IN THEIR OWN WORDS. 
