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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robingoodfellow · M

Clergymen of various denominations have told me music and movies are evil my whole life. My takeaway from it all is this:

If they see something that brings joy and happiness as a disease that must be cured,
I run as fast as I can in the opposite direction.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@robingoodfellow Do these misery-guts condemn all the arts, or just music and films they don't like personally?

Are they saying it is wrong for mankind to create anything?

Can any of them explain their Talibanesque attitudes, or do they just try to hide behind the Bible?

robingoodfellow · M

@ArishMell there's always been this weird side of Abrahamic religion that conflates joy with evil. You're happy so you must be doing something wicked.
The burned 'witches' for dancing on a Sunday.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@robingoodfellow I think it's just power-play. The religions themselves don't conflate joy with evil, but they provide a ready excuse for petty little people who find their religion the only way they can exert any power over other people.

Witches were not burned anyway, at least not in Britain though I think it was more common on the Continent. They were usually hanged, but for being so-called "witches".

I don't know if there was ever any statute law against it but dancing on a Sunday might have attracted a torrent of abuse and hatred stoked up by dull-minded, fear-ridden sabbatarians.

These types even exalted the Tay Bridge Disaster in 1879, as God's punishment for travelling on a Sunday! (The bridge collapsed under a train, killing everyone on board, but hardly by God's hand. It was fundamentally weak by bad design and appallingly sloppy construction; and failed under the resultant of the train's weight and lateral load of a gale of a strength common in that region.)