IS GOD RUINING PROG?

Wait, the Flower Kings preach?

I don't really think that the Flower Kings preach, they certainly do talk about the divine a lot, though.

Man Overboard wrote: I'm probably the biggest Flower Kings fan on this board.  Roine's said many times that he belongs to no religion in particular, that he just believes in positivity and kindness.  He uses the Flower King as a symbol of that.  He's also used the Christian stories, as well as stories of other religions, to illustrate that positivity.  Devil's Playground mentions the Holy Mother of Hinduism, for example.

Why I said they talk about the divine a lot, but it's never preaching.

I was not Taking the p*ss when I posted this topic.I love The Flowerkings,I was just wondering if people found the singing of GOD/Religion offputting to their liking of the music? 

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I'm probably the biggest Flower Kings fan on this board.  Roine's said many times that he belongs to no religion in particular, that he just believes in positivity and kindness.

Sounds like you're describing Jon Anderson, a guy obsessed with divinity, philosophy specially oriental, but this didn't caused that Yes music went down.

God doesn't ruins music, the man creates and ruins music, God is not guilty of a person's beliefs or disbeliefs.

BTW Since when kindnes and positivity is a bad influence for music? Unless you're a Marilyn Manson fan, I belief it's ok.

Iván

Dazo wrote: I was not Taking the p*ss when I posted this topic.I love The Flowerkings,I was just wondering if people found the singing of GOD/Religion offputting to their liking of the music?

A lot of prog's about religious concerns. What's it's not about though is exclusively one religious orthodoxy, which is great and why it is universally appealing. I think part of why progressive rock is "progressive" is because it posits a system of belief that is a synthesis of all the great religions.

And this, imo, is the direction the world woud be quickly progessing to, if it weren't for pin-headed narrow minded literalists who have to have their truth spoon-fed to them by myth-obsessed psychopaths.

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Dazo:  What about it?  They also say "Getting even altogether, hiding from the Holy Mother".  The Holy Mother is a Hindu thing.  Did Roine have a change of religion?  OH WAIT, in the same song, he says "This is how you raise the Cain, this is what you teach our children", a light Christian reference that is actually more about the mainstream phrase "raising Cain" than an actual reference to Christianity's Cain.

Then again, for ever Judas Kiss or Devil's Danceschool, we've got that clip at the end of Underdog talking about the John Holmes Pizza, 18 inches of deliiiicious...  pizza. 

Edit:  Where the hell did Dazo's post go? 


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The holy mother could surely be Mary mother of god?

Dazo wrote: The holy mother could surely be Mary mother of god?

Possibly.  I had a Hindu boyfriend for a while, and we both thought of the Hindu Holy Mother immediately when listening to that track for the first time.  Coincidence?  Maybe.

Still...  THE JOHN HOLMES PIZZA!

Yes, what´s the point ???