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Religious music is often great music.

Evangelicalhumanist

"Truth" isn't a thing...
Premium Member
Members know I'm an atheist. Very much so. Many members also know that I am a huge lover of music (and several other arts).

So, here's one of my favourite things - the Allegri "Miserere Mei."

Listen for the boy soprano Roy Goodman at 1:30 (and of course throughout) -- he's possibly the best I've ever heard. He recorded this in 1963, when I was 15, and I heard it just months later, and have been in love with it ever since.


Have any favourite religious music? Please go ahead and add it to the thread -- I'll listen.
 

Trailblazer

Veteran Member
Members know I'm an atheist. Very much so. Many members also know that I am a huge lover of music (and several other arts).

So, here's one of my favourite things - the Allegri "Miserere Mei."
I also love music...

Members know I'm a Baha'i. Very much so. But I rarely ever listen to Bahai music, as I prefer Christian music.
So here is one of my favorite Christian songs...


My friend @Truthseeker9 sent me this video recently. It is a Baha'i song that I do like.

 

Evangelicalhumanist

"Truth" isn't a thing...
Premium Member
I also love music...

Members know I'm a Baha'i. Very much so. But I rarely ever listen to Bahai music, as I prefer Christian music.
So here is one of my favorite Christian songs...


My friend @Truthseeker9 sent me this video recently. It is a Baha'i song that I do like.

Thank you! Both are very good, although I confess I'm more drawn to the Ridvan-Royal Falcon piece. That's probably because my tastes generally run more to the classical than to pop.
 

Trailblazer

Veteran Member
Thank you! Both are very good, although I confess I'm more drawn to the Ridvan-Royal Falcon piece. That's probably because my tastes generally run more to the classical than to pop.
Admittedly, I am probably drawn to the song Even If because I have seen so much sorrow and so much hurt and I like the idea that God is there even if He does not make all that go away. Then again, I am conflicted because I cannot understand why a loving God would allow so much suffering in the first place, religious apologetics notwithstanding. It is a continual struggle.
 

Evangelicalhumanist

"Truth" isn't a thing...
Premium Member
Admittedly, I am probably drawn to the song Even If because I have seen so much sorrow and so much hurt and I like the idea that God is there even if He does not make all that go away. Then again, I am conflicted because I cannot understand why a loving God would allow so much suffering in the first place, religious apologetics notwithstanding. It is a continual struggle.
I hope one day you'll resolve it to your satisfaction.
 

Evangelicalhumanist

"Truth" isn't a thing...
Premium Member
I'm not attracted to the traditional religious classical music but to music where uplifting lyrics are paired with a basically cheerful melody.

One example that I've noted before here is the "Empty Hands" songs https://www.emptyhandsmusic.org/videos for example
Thank you. Not really my style of music, but I must admit that unlike a lot of the genre, it is positive and upbeat, without all the cussing, guns and murder. That's a pretty good thing!
 

Suave

Simulated character
Members know I'm an atheist. Very much so. Many members also know that I am a huge lover of music (and several other arts).

So, here's one of my favourite things - the Allegri "Miserere Mei."

Listen for the boy soprano Roy Goodman at 1:30 (and of course throughout) -- he's possibly the best I've ever heard. He recorded this in 1963, when I was 15, and I heard it just months later, and have been in love with it ever since.


Have any favourite religious music? Please go ahead and add it to the thread -- I'll listen.

As my fellow RF comrades know, I have God very well pegged as being a sims controller, a reality based virtual reality programmer of human consciousness, but there is very little in the way of music about us being simulated by God. Remarkably, I found a song appropriately titled Who's behind the door? begging the question of What's beyond our simulation.? This song was written in 1983, years before Nick Bostrom had logically -deduced us as being very likely living in a simulated reality, Who's behind the door was first performed 16 years before the science-fiction film the Matrix popularized the notion of humanity being trapped within a simulated reality.

I noticed at 3:44 in this music video, the twin facing towards me on the left has his shirt collar pulled way up past his chin appearing to simulate a mask over his chin. This, 37 years before people widely wore masks in order to prevent the spread of C.O.V.I.D.-19 infections. Coincidence? or a Matrix glitch?


Our genetic code's creator has left this mathematical pattern in our genetic code conveying to me the symbol of an Egyptian triangle as well as the number 37 embedded in our genetic code.
Eight of the canonical amino acids can be sufficiently defined by the composition of their codon's first and second base nucleotides. The nucleon sum of these amino acids' side chains is 333 (=37 * 3 squared), the sun of their block nucleons (basic core structure) is 592 (=37 * 4 squared), and the sum of their total nucleons is 925 (=37 * 5 squared ). With 37 factored out, this results in 3 squared + 4 squared = 5 squared, which is representative of an Egyptian triangle.


I would not expect there to be a mathematical depiction of an Egyptian triangle stored within genetic coding if it were a naturally occurring phenomenon. The mathematical pattern of the number 37 being used as a key factor for conveying an Egyptian triangle might be related to the gematria value of 37 appearing in the Hebrew language of Genesis 1:1.

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Trailblazer

Veteran Member
I'm not attracted to the traditional religious classical music but to music where uplifting lyrics are paired with a basically cheerful melody.

One example that I've noted before here is the "Empty Hands" songs https://www.emptyhandsmusic.org/videos for example
I am not big on rap music but I love the message which is the essential message of the Baha'i Faith, universal love, the unity of mankind and brotherhood of all.
 

TransmutingSoul

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Thank you for the song ,it was great.

I like a large range of music, but this song I have been enjoying lately. I met this father and sons in the Solomon Islands a few years ago, they were a musical family, so it was great to hear them put this song together.


Regards Tony
 

SomeRandom

Still learning to be wise
Staff member
Premium Member
My Emo angst ridden teen self was listening to Flyleaf back in high school. Despite not being Christian.
I mean Lacey sings with such conviction and passion. And is probably the only Fundamentalist pop culture figure I could probably get along with irl. Because she’s “edgy” enough to be chill.
Some nostalgic faves


Also this song just amuses me. Because it’s just so unapologetically corny
 

Psalm23

Well-Known Member
This song I first heard by a church choir that sang it very beautifully and so I wanted to look it up online...
Here is another favorite song by Nathan Pacheco :


And gentle Savior by David Phelps is a personal favorite of mine:



 
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Kenny

Face to face with my Father
Premium Member
Members know I'm an atheist. Very much so. Many members also know that I am a huge lover of music (and several other arts).

So, here's one of my favourite things - the Allegri "Miserere Mei."

Listen for the boy soprano Roy Goodman at 1:30 (and of course throughout) -- he's possibly the best I've ever heard. He recorded this in 1963, when I was 15, and I heard it just months later, and have been in love with it ever since.


Have any favourite religious music? Please go ahead and add it to the thread -- I'll listen.
That was beautiful!

One of my favorite.. voice, music and lyrics...
 

Truthseeker

Non-debating member when I can help myself
I also love music...

Members know I'm a Baha'i. Very much so. But I rarely ever listen to Bahai music, as I prefer Christian music.
So here is one of my favorite Christian songs...


My friend @Truthseeker9 sent me this video recently. It is a Baha'i song that I do like.

I like the Christian song. "My hope is in you even if you don't"
 
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