Backwoods Presbyterian
Puritanboard Amanuensis
Ahhhh! Wagner! *Runs away and hides*What criteria would you then use to determine the morality of a piece of music?
Is the wedding march okay? At least for weddings? Wagner's Lohengrin is part of a "pagan" piece written by an Anti-Semite, and for that reason many Jews and many Missouri-Synod Lutherans don't play this piece at weddings due to these connotations. So it appears that a soothing piece can be pagan. I cannot perceive this from the hearing of it though.
Not sure what this says about me but Wagner's Lohengrin is probably my favorite opera.
Seriously, we probably wouldn't have had Nietzsche or Hitler without Wagner first. Makes one wonder...
Probably the biggest "sneer" I ever got was suggesting that Julius Wellhausen and German Higher Criticism sowed the seeds which grew the Third Reich.