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  • Every time I listen to this i get goosebumps wondering why some people dont like this music! I have been begging my director to do this piece!

  • CooL

  • One does not love the gift over the giver. Palestrina is a gift from the Lord.

  • @TheJbach One does not love the gift over giver? Yeah right. If a perv gives you a candy, are you gonna love the perv or the candy? :) Oh, lol, and the examples could go on so much. I come here to take a look into the history of music, but I stumble upon lots and lots of "believers". Must be really sad to listen to this music by default :)

  • EmilyMae, what a dope you are. Where do you think Palestrina got his gift, but from God.

  • wat a bad musik

  • @martinlian123 From looking at your profile, I understand that you are a child. When you grow up one day, you will perhaps understand why this music has survived for so many centuries, and why many people can listen to it for years, even decades, without getting tired of it.

    When I was your age, I didn't like it either. But as we grow up, we see, learn, understand many things about this world, and only then we begin to appreciate the really good music. You will see.

  • In my opinion, I love vocalists than instrumental musicians (regarding that I am a violinist) because their voice is their instrument. They express how they feel and love about music (passion). Because of capella's like this, instruments was invented, and soon evolved into more sophisticated instruments as the brass woodwinds and even percussions. It's not god who made it, It's the people who loves music expressing their feelings to music itself

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  • 12 Justin Bieber fans....

  • When I went to a Music conservatory at France with my professional string friends, I heard this choir inside from a enormous church. I told my friends to meet me at a cafe somewhere close at the church, and went inside. While I was inside listening to this beautiful capella, tears came out from my eyes until the whole capella was over.

  • great sound !

  • it's a bit heaven

  • I'm trying to study for my music exam. but this music is so peaceful its putting me to sleep. Its too beautiful

  • Its a pity that even this wonderful music fail to prevent priests from being pedophiles and molesters!

  • @wrongbuzz This music isn't really played in the church anymore. So it can't be blamed^^

  • anyway god is just someone created by humans to explain things they weren't capable to understand

  • @H3dd42 Exactly

  • So beautiful

  • The music trancends religions. It is beautiful, pure and simple. Close your eyes and what you feel is what it means.

  • @Leonidaslost I couldnt agree more with you :)

  • How hard to sing a capella! Great!

  • Great discussion. Like it. Just one thing:

    In the XX century, lots of composers studied the vocal technique of Palestrina. They learned it and composed requiems and masses in the same style. Some of those works sound very similar to Palestrina (due to the imitation of composing style). They sound.... Inspired by the God. The fact is that some of those composers are atheists or agnistics. How could they be inspired by something they don´t believe in?

    btw: Palestrina rocks :)

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  • @Assislau Well, thats a good question, and makes me think what believes are all about. Probably they dont believe but they like how this kind of music sounds...

  • @Assislau

    But in view of the history of this brilliant work of Palestrinas', could

    we not at least state that he was attempting to demonstrate to Pope

    Marcellus, in response to the counter reformationist Cardinals within  the Curia who at the Council of Trent, had called for

    "Polyphony" to be banned, that it could in fact be liturgical?

  • @blainebill39 I agree with you. This music has liturgical proposes. I think that´s a fact, but the fact it has liturgical purposes doesn´t mean that it´s inspired by God or that´s "a gift from God".

  • @Assislau Exactly, thats the point, music is just a way to express the composer feelings about something, and sometimes not even that, we are the ones who give music meaning, the listeners. God is just a way to justify (badly) how music is spectatular and moves worlds...

  • @Assislau

    My friend, I believe I understand what you're attempting to express. The first

    time I stood in front of Botticellis' masterpiece "Primavera" at the Uffizi in Florence,

    I was so moved, it almost took my breath away! And I knew that its inspiration came from

    no G-D!

    Blaine

  • @Assislau

    My friend, I personally do not feel the need to declare that a graet

    work of art was inspired by the diety, though I am a "Thiest" myself!

  • fides non necessibat loquire...Pax

  • who's this fucken 394 didn't like that ?

  • I live in the neighborhood of the Choir School at the Cathedral of the Madeliene - at minimum - weekly - Palestrina does it for me to keep me doing the good things that I do.

  • This music is fantastic, probably shedding tears all over the world. Tears of wonder and joy. Religion also sheds tears all over the world. Tears of war, pain and agony.

  • Yes, Nirvana, It is great art rather than the forced strictures of inflexible dogma

    that gives us a respite from the vulgarity of modern culture and invites us to

    partake in the sublime. And nothing is more sublime than this apotheosis of

    the High Renaissance, transporting us up from what is earthbound and scholastic into the ether of eternity.

  • @mvolkov11

    Beautiful comment !

    Jan.

  • Although I realize Giovanni was a devout Catholic, as an Atheist I can say that this is simply marvelous.

  • The most beautiful piece of music ever written (imo of course)

  • ganz toll

    

  • may one know what they are saying? pls

  • I mean that is like as angel songs!

  • This is singing of eternity!

  • Piękna msza na chór a cappella.

  • Polyphonies superbes,c'est majestueux sans être pompeux,aérien sans être léger,ça élève l'âme vers la beauté.Superbe!

  • In my opinion, this song should only be sung by an all male choir, like it was originally composed for . its not that I don't think girls should sing it, its that the beauty of the song comes from that cut from the treble boys and the countertenor men in the alto part. This is an amazing piece of composition and amazing rendition of it.

  • according to tradition , thanks to this mass Palestrina saved the polifonic mass from a possible prohibition by the catholic church, distrubed by the complexity of the music could avoid the total comprehension of the sacred texts, being or not true it´s one of the most perfect works of the genius of its author, it was written towards 1555

  • So beautiful and so heavenly! We love You O God our Savior! Sustain us in Your mercy and in Your grace, so that we may always remain united with Your love for all eternity.

  • I heard this mess, yesterday! It was so beautiful and this music is absolutely great! I'm in a choir too and I think we'll sing this mess!

  • One of the most sublime pieces of music ever written, the other would be by Tallis :)

  • @inregionecaecorum the other being Spem Alium by Tallis? That is just divine :)

  • Love it. Both delightful and exhilirating.

  • Beautiful!

  • To Billyguns2- the magnificent choir perfoming the "Kyrie" of the Missa Papae Marcelli is indeed King's College Choir, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, Sir David Willcocks, Music Director, Conducting. How do I know? I have the LP recording of the performance!

  • I seem to be the only one who cares to know the name of the magnificent choir; WHO ARE THEY?

  • @billyguns2 I'm pretty sure it's the Tallis Scholars. There are some videos of their live performances floating around YouTube. Either way they're worth looking into.

  • This mass was composed during the Council of Trent to try and prove to Pope Marcellus II that polyphonic chants were understandable.

    Because the council was trying to remove Polyphonic chants like this. So give it up to Palestrina, he saved Catholic Chants!

  • @TheEcumenator

    Ok, dont get offended since I am about to correct you a little on history. First of all, this is a polyphonic mass, not chant. Also, the Council of Trent was not trying to remove polyphony from sacred music (for if they had, polyphony would have been replaced with chant: something no one wanted at the time), they were trying to remove Parody Masses (masses based on secular tunes of the time) and force composers to compose with the text as the focal point. Clarity of text vs music

  • @Motetftw lol why would i get offended for being told some truth? I only can thank you.

  • does he have any songs for violin? probably not.. :(

  • @Veo17 Even if he didn't exactly WRITE something for violin, there is most likely something transposed that you could find! :)

  • @Veo17

    The Violin, at this time, was not in existence. However, the Viol was and many composers of the Renaissance wrote for it. Dont expect to find Viol parts with any masses though, they were used primarily for secular works.

  • Absolutely heavenly! Having just followed a link to something by James McMillan - which was turgid and tuneless to my ears - I now come to this most beautiful Mass setting by Palestrina. Right on, Palestrina!!!!! We need you, especially in my parish, where we are still "binding us all together, Lord" etc etc etc.

  • wow

  • OMG , is it me or Palestrina looks like Dermot Mulroney of "My Best Friend Wedding??!?"

  • @macmusikpro, He looks like King Leonitis from 300

  • loved this in college music appreciation and history love it now! Very soothing. Lord have mercy.

  • G. P. Palestrina:Misa Papae Marcelli;Kyrie

    -renesansa

    Jezik:Latinski

    Ivođač:mjesoviti zbor

    O izvođenju:vokalno

    Slog:polifonija

    Sadržaj:duhovni

    Struktura i oblik: prokomponirani oblik

    Tempo:adacio

  • So you listen to a piece of sublime 16th century music that makes your soul soar to the Heavens.

    It certainly is a rough landing reading comments left by all the e-smartasses of the 21st century...

    Sic transit!

  • I like church music Xp they're so religious

  • fuckin beautiful, i luv palestrina's work. thomas luis de victoria as well. polyphonic choirsinging should be more used in churches!

  • @IlkeaPikkuMyy - Sorry dude it ain't gonna happen in catholic churches anyway. After Vatican 2 the music for the liturgy has to involve "full and active participation of the laity" . In other words everything has to be DUMBED DOWN to the level of the most retarded tone deaf idiot present. Those infallible bishops really know how to pack em in ! lol

  • You've got that right; of course, the Novus Ordo Sect, that accursed spawn of the invalid "Vatican II" Robber Council, isn't the Catholic Church at all, but a counterfeit religion, headed by its Chief Brothel-Keeper, the apostate Benedict XVI. To answer the question, "Is the Pope Catholic"; certainly not the current office-holder. We haven't had a REAL pope since Bl. John XXIII, who never signed a single document emanating from the Council, but realized too late it had deviated from the Faith.

  • @NoiseGrinder How right you are! Couldn't have put it more eloquently myself! And the sooner Paul Inwood gets off of my cloud the better. Everything seems to have been "arranged" by him these days! Right on, Palestrina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!

  • @IlkeaPikkuMyy Aron, log the FUCK off my channel!

  • Do you know where I can find this song sung by The Tallis Scholars? Or is this it? I haven't heard it in a while, and I have an impeccable memory for recognizing music, but I can't pinpoint if this is it exactly. Either way, beautiful and exquisitely written song.

  • love it, beautiful acapella song

  • Don 't quarrel you two.

    This music is worth more.

    Enjoy, with or without one another.

    Excuse my english, it 's known better days.

  • What beautiful music--wouldn't you agree?

    Why don't we just respect beliefs and listen to the beautiful music; I mean, it is a gift from God.

  • @EmilyMae141 amen to that

  • @EmilyMae141 DERERRRP DERP HERP DERP OLOLO MUDKIPS DERP

  • @Kummen How pathetic

  • @EmilyMae141 Actually Palestrina wrote it, so it is a gift from Mr. Palestrina. And what a gift.

  • @EmilyMae141 Listen to the beautiful music yes, respect false beliefs, no.

  • @EmilyMae141 I agree we should respect beliefs and enjoy all the music..but it wasnt a gift from God...its is gift from Palestrina...

  • @MrVieweiV So you respect her belief, but, personally, don't agree? :)

  • @Fero631 Exactly, i do respect, but i dont understand :) And its not in my hands to say if something is right or wrong, no one and nothing is perfect :) (sorry about my english, im portuguese)

  • @MrVieweiV Palestrina was inspired by God, he was an instrument of God. That could sound as Im undermining his job (of Palestrina) but It is not easy to be an instrument of God.

  • @peloavila The Human Being doesnt need a God to creat, justify or do anything at all. I dont believe, i just respect, but do me a favor, dont say Palestrina was as instrument of God....his music (Palestrina) is spectacular because he was a genius and because he wore the counterpoint technique like no one....and thats it

  • @MrVieweiV You don't know history of art. Art is an emanation of religion. And that's not a coincdence if Palestrina is a catholic. A muslim, a buddhist or an atheist couldn't make this kind of music at this time.

  • @lapinot21 In fact, I know the history of art, and i can assure you this: God is no more than a source of inspiration, just like a picture. I know that art is a emanation of religion, but that doesnt mean God is the one who created....

    It is obvious that an atheist would never make music like this, and that is one of the problems of religion: eveyone who thinks in a different way should be burned....

  • @MrVieweiV In fact I didn't read the beginning of your conversation, I was only answering to your last sentence and thought that in your opinon religion had nothing to do with art in general, and this music in particular.

  • @lapinot21 Oh, ok ok. You are right, much of the art is all about religion, but that doesnt mean God is the one o created it...If you do believe so, well, i cant say nothing at all, its your choice. And i do respect you, i just have a different opinion :)

  • @MrVieweiV Do you think that we(the catholic people) are stupid people that dont study and that we give no credit to the persons who did great things?Do you think thatwe are just praying(but its an important thing to do)?Im studying medicine and Im convinced that God always helps me to do it well.And palestrina was catholic too.The problem isnt thatyou dont believe in God, the problem is that you hate the people who believe in God.Our inteligence is given by God,but we have to put our effort too

  • @peloavila And Im not the one who is giving no credit to someone. You are the one who is giving no credit to God and to the Church. Because people dont admit that the Church was promoving art and sciences in that epoch. And I repeat, Im taking down Palestrina, he is one of my favourites musicians and Im sure that he was a genious and that he studied a lot.

  • @peloavila I mean im NOT taking him down

  • @peloavila I never said that, there are in my family a lot of catholic persons and i love them all. I'm not judging you for your choices and believes, everyone is free to do whatever wants... I'm just manifesting my opinion.

    But tell me something: that god you believe, was he who study for you? was he the one o suffer all these years to enter in a university?

    No, it was you. You were the one who study all your life, you were the who entered the university...didnt you study Darwin?

  • @MrVieweiV BTW, you did know that University is a Catholic word, did you not?

  • @bigpoppaplump462 And what does that mean?

  • @peloavila There are in my family a lot of catholic persons and i love them all. I'm not judging you for your choices and believes, everyone is free to do whatever wants... I'm just manifesting my opinion.

    But tell me something: that god, was he the one who study for you? was he the one o suffer all these years to enter in a university?

    No, it was you. You were the one who study all your life, you were the who entered the university...and it wasnt god o gave us intellegence...it was Evolution

  • @MrVieweiV Evolution? let me say something about it. Evolution is one of the biggest lies. First of all science cannot say how the world was created, because science studies things that can be proved and reproduced experimentally .Second, evolution is not science, is fantasy.more than that, is an ideology, a pseudoreligion.Science uses theories, and the "theory" of the evolution is just a poor hypothesis(it cant be comprobed).Third,the media and many"scientists"(not all)says that "is proved" and

  • and this is a big lie.The truth is that scientists that behave like real scientists(not like the dreamer pseudoscientists that are favoured by the media)and study this"theory" with a real scientific attitude, conclude that is a big fantasy and lie. This real scientists are silenced by the media(there are proves,an example is in the film expelled no inteligence allowed)In conclusion, humanity is trying to deny God, but there are other interets like money. Evolution theories give big profits

  • @peloavila Called Geneva? well, you should really research about what is being built in there....

    To finish my comment...are persons like you, who only believe in one thing ando close their world to that, who are deteriorating our planete. Persons like you killed a lot of innocent people in my contry because they thought in a different way...its not a movie that show us all the thinks we need to know to criticize, first of all, learn, then listen, and only after that you can argue....

  • @MrVieweiV Just one more thing...i know more about religion then you probably think, and im not talking just about Christianity....so, learn one little thing, the god you believe in is no more than a great invention to weak people believe, so they can find a meaning of life....i dont believe in god, but im pretty sure about what i must do in my life, and it is be happy, and make other persons happy...and trust me, do what your church is doing is the opposite of that...

  • @MrVieweiV You condemn people for their sexual choices, their religious choices and their attitudes...i think the thing you should really condemn is you, because you believe in something that agree we all should suffer in our lifes to became more pure and to pay for original sin...is that what is life all about?

  • @peloavila Off course evolution is a big lie and it doesnt make any sense...being created by a powerful god who created the world with a thought makes much more sense....come on....do you really entered in medicine? evolution evidences are everywhere, and i mean everywhere...just read some books

    Oh, and let me tell you something, if do really want to believe on a God who created everything you should really start thinking of a change....Anohter thing, have you ever heard about a little town

  • @MrVieweiV How do you know this?

    

  • @Bordelais0909 How do i know what? :)

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  • @MrVieweiV all music is a gift from God.

  • @tubatalen Please, tell me why

  • @MrVieweiV Well first of all, it must be made clear that God created the earth and all that is in it. God created human beings in His image and he breathed life into them. God gave each human being some form of a gift, and for Palestrina, I guess that gift would be in his music. Palestrina wrote masses for catholic services. If you know the background on Palestrina, it is know that he had written secular madrigals, and later upon looking back at his life, hated them and wrote madrigals with.....

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  • @MrVieweiV ....sacred meaning. This is one example of how music is a gift from God. But to answer your question, God wanted humans to have enjoyment in life, some of our snjoyment goes to praise God for Him giving us this gift, others don't realize that their gift is from God and abuse it, I won't mention anyone though. I really hope that I answered your question.

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  • @tubatalen Palestrina hated his madrigals? What are you based to state such thing?

    What about non liturgical music? What about rock, pop, jazz? Is that music also a gift from God? What about music that has a atheist message? That music exists in many genres of music. If all music is a gift from God, then why is there music with non-religious message?

    When a teenagers sings and plays guitar in his bedroom is he being inspired by God? Or is he just having some fun?

  • @Assislau I am in a music history class at the moment and from what I learned Palestrina hated some of his madrigals later writing new sacred ones. Music is a gift from God, it is not used in "good" ways all of the time. Maybe God decided that the music without the religious view could be used to promote discussions like this one. As for the teenager, I already answered that.

  • @tubatalen ohh...so you are saying that any kind of music which as non religious intent is not music?

    If there is a great composer who doesnt creat music about god it means he is inspired by the devil, beause music is all about god, because god is everything?

    Or doest it mean that he is not like you (a closed mind person) and tries to open up his mind to other things the world has? Music isnt about God, music is about feelings...

  • @MrVieweiV No, I am saying that people abuse God's gifts to us. God is everything, Music is a gift from God, humans abuse the gift he has given us, we distort our world with songs not about God. Music is about feelings. music is music, noise is noise, you are you, I am me, people are able to be inspired by the devil, that's atheism for you.

  • @tubatalen How can you say that writing music I like is abusing the gift from God?!? If a write a music that gives me pleasure and goes against the "rules" of God, is that music imoral? Is that bad music? Why?? Why can´t we do the music that gives US pleasure? Why do we have to do the music that gives pleasure to God?

    Another thing: How can you say what music God likes? God only likes music that praises him? Can´t he like other music? In that case, he is really close-minded.

  • @MrVieweiV what are feelings my fellow creature? where do feelings come from? how is it that we even feel?

  • @marilyn0ng Yeah, you are right, its much more easier to say: "It was God who created it all"

  • @marilyn0ng If you study psychology you would learn that feelings from specific areas in the brain activated by certain neurons in a very complex way.

    Of course this is all very hard to understand. It´s way easier to say that all is a gift from God.

  • @MrVieweiV Well, if you believe that God gave you (him) everything you/him got, including talent, then it is indirectly a gift from God, at least in my opinion.

    However, I don't see the point of using that phrase and especially arguing about it

    Greetings from Croatia :)

  • @MrVieweiV un regalo de Dios a Palestrina y de Palestrina a nosotros..

  • @MrVieweiV every thing is a gift from God.

  • @sencillitos I´m kind of sick of those comments, everything you can say is: "music is a gift from god" "music is cool because God created it"....

    No, my dear friend, it wasnt God who created it all, and if you believe that you are right just find me something that proves it.....and what someone very clever wrote in a book doesnt whorth it

  • @MrVieweiV pax domine

  • @MrVieweiV Palestrina apparently overheard the angels.

  • @MrVieweiV Yeah I could never understand how a composer writes a composition (even if he intended it to be for god), and people think their god wrote it haha! Its like if I was inspired by someone to write a piece about them...in no way did they write it, they just inspired us! Religious people have such gaps in their logic...

  • @MrVieweiV Sure a gift from Palestrina, but who gave Palestrina such talent, Santa Claus? Or did he purchase it at the local grocers?

  • @bamboccionethefirst Maybe, and it is just an opinion, maybe he thought about what he was doing, and after years of learning music, he created it.....i dont know, maybe....just saying.....

    Oh, and that kind of comments are just stupid...you dont argument something just by beeing sarcastic....

  • @MrVieweiV God's gift of talent doesn't exclude an active participation or collaberation by the reciever.

  • @bamboccionethefirst This actually made me think about sex. :) you know... an active participation or collaboration of the receiver, like... shake it baby!! :D

  • @bamboccionethefirst Talent is not "given." Many people are born with a tendency towards music, and this tendency can be sharpened into skill through practice and study. It is a skill to be developed, not a gift to be given. Our thanks should go to Palestrina for being so dedicated to music to reach the level he did.

  • @bamboccionethefirst If you would stop believing you need a God giving you this power, you will probably find the courage to do something amazing yourself that will remain in the history and make a moron centuries later wonder if God gave him this talent.

  • "Geez, bashing religions never gets you anywhere..."

    Forgive me, but the computer on which you wrote that would not exist had everyone in human history been reticent to "bash religion".

    This is not speculative.

  • @polymath7 Well forgive me, but i do not exactly see how there is even a slight correlation between the invention of the computer and hatred for other religions...

  • Well, then I must ask your forgiveness in turn, because you force me to say you know absolutely nothing about occidental intellectual history.

    The causal relationship is between the rise of science, its discoveries widening latitude to challenge religious claims to truth about the world, and its progress having been greatly retarded by the very need to push against these boundaries to begin with.

    This simply *is not* debatable; it is a matter of fact, not opinion.

  • Oh, and I did not include the qualifier "other"

    I passionately detest *all* religions -though I hasten to add, this hatred of religions does not by any stretch automatically extend to their adherents.

  • Sorry, used my satirical troll account,; those replies were suppose to come from "polymath".

  • That was the only possible connection i thought you'd have in mind. I know with advances in science (including computers) there was an increase in questioning religion in general. I am not dense and realize this. My point was not related to this at all. I was stating that bashing other religions never gets you anywhere SIMPLY because the person getting bashed has their mind made up about how they're living their lives and what they believe. Basically, Its not as if they will change their minds.

  • I.

    I don't share this perception at all.

    First, contrary to popular misconception, it is most definitely is quite possible to dissuade the religious from their delusions.

    I have done it many times.

    Admittedly, I seem to have done so only in private conversation and not, apparently, within the constraints of public discourse.

    But the primary rhetorical currency of challenging religious dogmas in public discourse lies not in the attempt to convince the theist, but in making him appear....

  • II.

    ...irrational, foolish, and potentially destructive to an ambivalent third party.

    This isn't always pretty or pleasant and can't always be gentle, but it is, ultimately, necessary and constructive.

  • @polymath7 1st - I take great offense to

    you claiming that someone religious (like me)

    are simply delusional. I have not once bashed your belief that your

    intellectual human mind can solve everything because i firmly believe

    you nor anyone else is all knowing. And in my mind, THIS is not debatable

    because there are things that the smartest individuals in the world cannot

    solve. But that's your life, and you're choice.

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  • I'm sorry, but i'f you've read the bible -have you?- and believe it, you're either stupid or insane.

    I take no pleasure in offending you, but there's just no gentle way to say it.

    Nor by any stretch must I be all-knowing to justifiably conclude that a proposition almost certainly untrue.

    I'm *not* all-knowing, I'm just smarter than any three people you've ever met combined.

    *shrug*

    If it makes you feel any better, or makes this comment any less abrasive, you're very attractive.

  • @polymath7 Well im sure you've read at least

    some of it (or id hope) for you to make comments

    like you have. To translate the bible literally -

    as im sure you've done - that is insane. No i don't think

    Jonah lived in the mouth of a whale, nor do i think

    moses REALLY parted the red seas. It's not literal

    in my opinion. Besides i SAID the bible was

    irrelevant in confirming my beliefs - i don't have

    to be a bible hugger to feel and

    know there is a god.

  • Well okay, but what exactly do you mean by "God"?

    The answer is *not* obvious.

    If you simply mean a an intelligence that created the universe, that's not so bad.

    But if that's *all* you mean, then I really don't think you're a Christian by any satisfactory definition of the word.

  • @polymath7 But you don't believe it anything but logic and science.

    So its as if im talking to a wall.

    Furthering my point that once someone's beliefs are cemented into

    their being, it is unchangeable.

    You may not be all-knowing,

    but you certainly carry yourself as if you were.

    Its very unbecoming by the way. Quite

    possibly you're just entirely narcissistic which

    explains how you say you're not "all knowing"

  • Where did I say I only believe in logic and science? I did not so much as faintly imply anything of the sort.

    In fact I believe just as much in love and poetry and kindness.

    Don't look so bemused -belief in God is necessary for *none* of this.

  • @polymath7 but you then claim to be smarter than

    any 3 ppl i've ever met combined.

    I find it hilarious that you believe this. And i DID NOT

    remove my comments because of YOU.

    For some reason they were out of order and the

    response seemed illogical.

  • By all means, find it as hilarious as you please, but it is not for nothing that I call myself polymath.

    People always reproach me for my supposed arrogance, as if beyond a certain level of intelligence it is no longer permissible to harbor a self-assessment that is commensurate to one's abilities -or at the very least one is obliged to conceal it.

    Look, I think we better park it here. I'm clearly only pissing you off.

  • You've removed the comments you just posted?

    *wince*

    I hate when I have that effect.

    I apologize; I can be a bit of an intellectual bully sometimes.

    Good day to you.

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  • @polymath7 @polymath7 2nd -Those "christians" that you

    persuaded to stop being "delusional" must not have

    been real "Christians." Quite possibly they were agnostic.

    Real christians (note: you don't have to go to church, know the bible by heart, etc just to be a christian, you just have to

    know and feel that there is a god) won't just give up

    because of your large words and pompous intellectual approach.

    I am a believer, and NO ONE can change my mind.

    I have prayed, & my prayers are

    answered.

  • @polymath7

    Yes it is... the conflict theory -that's what what you're proposing is called- was a (mainly anti-catholic protestant) Victorian fad that had been rebuked and rejected by all serious historians/sociologists by the beginning of the 20th century...

    Also.. ya think Religious music by Religious people in a Religious context might have ANYTHING to do with... oh, I don't know... Religion?

  • che meraviglia!

  • just great...goosebumps

  • I actually had to answer another guy's comment and I felt like I had to say I was an atheist to make him see I understood his point, so I didn't come to this video shouting about it. And sorry for commenting here again, just feel I need to defend my statements down there by explaining that I never came here with a disrespectful attitude against Christians. The last thing I wanted was trouble. And it feels good that somebody thinks I have the right to love this music too, thank you for that.

  • @moltoallegro19 thank you for clarifying. I didn't see the other guys comments, which explains my confusion. And you're quite welcome.

  • whats with all this hate on atheists in here? cant we just listen to the music? I'm here because of Civilization IV and this is my favorite piece from the whole game. It's beautiful

  • I *THOUGHT* it was the Tallis Scholars whose Palestrina performances were on that game... is it them?

  • I wish I knew. Regardless, all I know is that I found Christianity as fast as I can so I can get to the Medieval age and listen to this lol

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