What’s your verdicts on this ?

I was listening to this Orthodox priest on TikTok . He’s a good priest .
He says that listening to music and watching movies are evil .
What do you think ?
Imagine telling someone give up music that’s dedicated all there lives to it and to tell them stop listening to music .
You could drive them into the river by saying that . He also thinks Hollywood is evil and that both music and movies if your listening to or watching that it’s a hypnosis to the sub conscious mind and that you have no control over your mind if you watch or listen to music or movies .
Music and movies is all I have left .
I gave up a lot of things in my life and then when I hear this it’s to deep altoghter .
What’s your view on this

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4meAndyou · F Best Comment

🤔🤔🤔 Hmmm. OK, here's what I think. SOME musicians write lyrics that celebrate drugs, or violence, or sex outside of marriage. That's definitely not what anyone could call good, especially a priest. There are plenty of Christian music groups out there, whose music is uplifting and it is NOT evil in any way.

There are movies rated PG that skirt the edge of what priests consider to be evil because they celebrate wizards and magic and so on. But once you hit R rated movies, you have to hear bad language, scenes that are practically porn except the actors are [i]mostly [/i]covered up, and you are inundated with violence. Watching that stuff normalizes it in the minds of those who are easily influenced.

Hollywood sells sex and violence. That's what they do. They appeal to the lowest part of men and women. But there are movies that aren't like that. You just have to read the ratiing, and read a review to know what's what.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@4meAndyou There is even more good music, of [i]all[/i] genres of all ages from Mediaeval to now, that has [i]nothing [/i]to do with sex, violence or drugs, and has [i]nothing [/i]to do with [i]any[/i] religion. You can even enjoy sacred music for its own sake, without having to believe in its deity. (Christianity is not the only fruit...)

As for drugs, violence and sex outside marriage, the last cannot possibly equated with the first two, despite those who like to imagine they can rule other people's love-lives.

Whether films depicting any of these "normalise" the behaviour is an old debate; and works have fiction have depicted drugs, sex and violence since the Ancient Greeks. Usually, the "baddies" lose in the end; but I very much doubt any more than a small minority are influenced by silly films. More likely they are influenced by all-too-real violence and drugs around them or inflicted on them - including in the home.

Sex before marriage? Oh my God. How[i] dare [/i]a couple express their love for each other physically without some official permit first. Is kissing allowed? (The religious service is not the marriage formality. It is only a ceremony relevant only to couples of that faith - many couples marry in registry offices without any church-going.)

Thinking novels and films somehow "evil" because they are magic-fantasies is just laughable. A religious bigot who makes such an allegation unwittingly admits believing in wizards and magic, and thinking the work is a documentary! These stories are aimed mainly at children aged from about 8 upwards - fortunately, unless warped by foolish elders-but-not-betters, most children are perfectly capable of seeing them as enjoyable, pure fantasy.

Was Peter Pan a real boy? Does The Magisterium* really exist?I think the [i]Harry Potter [/i]novels and films have been victims of this sort of childish abuse - where and when did the self-appointed Guardians Of Others' Minds see real teenagers on broomsticks playing real versions of hockey in the air?

Most Christians [i]do[/i] lead good lives, and you [i]do not [/i]need be of [i]any[/i] religion to be good - but there are too many who profess to be "Christian" while being certainly [i]not[/i] good... including those tiny-minded "priests" who condemn anything enjoyable.

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*Opaque central authority in Philip Pullman's [i]Dark Materials[/i] stories.