brianvds
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Poking around on YouTube, I stumbled on this:
The liturgical music of the Orthodox churches tends to be (at least by my tastes) absolutely intoxicating, hypnotically beautiful. Particularly compared with the dour, joyless dirges I endured as a kid in local protestant churches. Lucky for me I grew up in a secular family, so such visits were rare (basically only weddings and funerals!), but it made a lasting impression of dusty, thoughtless, joyless music made by dusty, thoughtless, joyless people.
Now had I grown up in an Orthodox church instead, I might have turned into a regular church goer. Alas. Thanks to Martin Luther, I am hell-bound.
The liturgical music of the Orthodox churches tends to be (at least by my tastes) absolutely intoxicating, hypnotically beautiful. Particularly compared with the dour, joyless dirges I endured as a kid in local protestant churches. Lucky for me I grew up in a secular family, so such visits were rare (basically only weddings and funerals!), but it made a lasting impression of dusty, thoughtless, joyless music made by dusty, thoughtless, joyless people.
Now had I grown up in an Orthodox church instead, I might have turned into a regular church goer. Alas. Thanks to Martin Luther, I am hell-bound.
