St Patrick's Breastplate - Ken Read

Divine Love is universal. It does not matter what location a person is from or what denomination you worship with or even when you were born. God loves you. no matter what. Even if you can't love others.

why can't people who claim to believe in Jesus just get along? Ever wonder why so much hatred is thrown in that direction? They see the bickering and dislike it. It kept me away from God until I realized that He's actually kind. I never read anything saying that one denomination is "right" or "wrong" in the Bible. I don't see any denomination in the early church,just those who got together to worship God.

religon...just take a step back and think if your morals are not yours, but god's. then doesnt that make you think that you may not have been capable of taking care of your self or finding your own path.

this is horrible music. protestants trying to cling to traditions that they severed themselves from centuries ago...it's sad.

And I do not enjoy this song, which my comments made clear. I think it's a perfect example of "Christian contemporary" garbage. A composer's religious affiliation makes no difference to me. I think Bach's St Matthew Passion is the most sublime piece of music ever made. Should we describe it as "Protestant" music though? Did the Reformation invent music, or is it not more accurate to say that Protestant composers simply built upon the foundation of a Western, Catholic musical tradition?

"Should we describe it as "Protestant" music though? "

Yes. Very much yes. I sincerely hope I don't spoil your enjoyment but vernacular German, homophony largely in preference to polyphony and congregational involvment are all expressions of Bach's Lutheran beliefs, contrary to the Catholic music of the time (as definied by the Council of Trent).

But this doesn't mean you should turn your back on Bach.

The Republicans and Democrats use that tactic all the time, taking quotes from someone like Washington or Lincoln to show that they would support the modern liberal or conservative agenda. The difference is that no one tries to convince us that Lincoln wasn't a Republican or that Washington wasn't president. Yet, such Stalinist lying is basically what you Prots do when you misrepresent Patrick as a proto-Protestant. Your glaring refusal to describe Patrick as Catholic betrays your motivation.

If you revered him, you would be honest about who he was and what he believed. What you're actually doing is called cultural expropriation. You take a universally admired historical figure and use selective quotes or just blatantly pervert the facts in order to trick the ignorant into thinking that he believed as you do. You thus further your sectarian agenda with the false endorsement of the authoritative historical personage.

You make a lot of assumptions. I disagree with you so automatically I have a "sectarian agenda", I misquote Saint Patrick, I "pervert the facts", I "trick the ignorant".