March 12, 2024

Why I hate Rock 'n' Roll, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX

18 minutes

I don’t hate rock ‘n’ roll with my lower nature, the side of my emotions and passions. I am a human being just like everyone else. As human beings, we have an animal side and a spiritual side, a side on which we are like the animals and a side on which we are like God.
Rock ‘n’ roll speaks to our animal side, it appeals to it, and our animal side is incapable of resisting that appeal. Anyone who is human will be attracted to rock ‘n’ roll by his lower nature.
Thus, anyone hating rock ‘n’ roll, like myself, is not able to hate it with his lower nature; it can only be hated by our higher nature, with our mind and will, and with the grace of God working in us.
The reason why my mind and will have an aversion for rock ‘n’ roll is simple: rock ‘n’ roll is toxic for the soul. I am not saying that listening to it is a sin in itself, though sometimes it certainly is. It is mainly that rock ‘n’ roll is permeated with a spirit of sin; it has a loving and committed relationship with the world, the flesh and the devil.

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By Fr Paul Robinson

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March 12, 2024

18 minutes

I don’t hate rock ‘n’ roll with my lower nature, the side of my emotions and passions. I am a human being just like everyone else. As human beings, we have an animal side and a spiritual side, a side on which we are like the animals and a side on which we are like God.
Rock ‘n’ roll speaks to our animal side, it appeals to it, and our animal side is incapable of resisting that appeal. Anyone who is human will be attracted to rock ‘n’ roll by his lower nature.
Thus, anyone hating rock ‘n’ roll, like myself, is not able to hate it with his lower nature; it can only be hated by our higher nature, with our mind and will, and with the grace of God working in us.
The reason why my mind and will have an aversion for rock ‘n’ roll is simple: rock ‘n’ roll is toxic for the soul. I am not saying that listening to it is a sin in itself, though sometimes it certainly is. It is mainly that rock ‘n’ roll is permeated with a spirit of sin; it has a loving and committed relationship with the world, the flesh and the devil.

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