Reviews discussion

rogerthat wrote: Well, there's got to be somebody to flag the album as Christian rock?  The high ratings and all round rave reviews make it look very tempting but, say, an atheist who does not want to be assaulted by Christian rock should at least be able to learn that from the reviews.  I should hope that what does and does not constitute a poor review is not determined only by its propensity to offend certain sections of people but also by how informative it is or isn't.  I didn't read all the reviews since I am not a fan of this band (and am neither atheist nor Christian, by the way) but Alan B's review was the only other that flagged this aspect.  Though it was not mentioned as a drawback.  That's a shame. Surely, if indeed Christianity is that central to Morse's lyrics, it should be mentioned in the reviews as fair warning because it can provoke strong reactions either way.

Well, I suppose one is allowed to rave silly with 4 or 5 stars.   It's coming up to a "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it".

Dean wrote: Is this how it is to be now? Reviews cannot criticise or express opinion, they can only inform?

The reviewers criticize the artists, but who criticizes the reviewers?

The problem we have in this the 14th year of the 3rd millennium AD (see we can't even have a date without it being arbitrarily linked to the unverifiable date of some fictional character!), is that religious belief is put on some kind of special pedestal! I was called anti-Semitic for stating that no parents had the right to hack off the foreskin of an infant without a good medical reason for doing so! If somebody want's to be circumcised because of religious compulsion then they can wait till they are 18 and then choose to have it done like tattoos and body piercings! See how religion is allowed to perpetrate child abuse and nobody bats an eyelid? And it is a fact that no-body in the UK has been prosecuted for the barbaric female circumcision although there have been thousands of girls mutilated in this terrible way! No-body who is of right-mind would condone such abuse of children in the world today!!

Atavachron wrote: ^ It's enough already, you're going off the deep end.

That's right, bury your head in the sand.
But this will be my last post coz The lunatics have taken over the asylum!
Over and out!

ExittheLemming wrote: His previous posts hinted as much but the reviewer's real agenda is revealed here i.e. what appeared to be a reasonably balanced review critical of the evangelical slant of Morse's lyrics was really just a foretaste of a fanatical and obsessive diatribe against all religion. Speaking as an atheist I was initially supportive of the review but can see now that its author is every bit as harmful as the sort of proselytism he professes to abhor.

I'm another atheist and I agree, he's clearly got a proselytism agenda way past highlighting the content of the lyric. Not helpful. He's lost me.

Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - February 10 2014 at 06:07

Perhaps certain person's fixation with Nurse Ratched was right all along about. (even if he can never get her name right).

...but it would have been okay if he'd put it to music?

Barney doesn't have an agenda.  You all just can't take criticism of belief. 

There is an old saying in Britain.....when you go to a pub, avoid talking about sex, religion, and politics, because it always leads to trouble.