Fons, Thank you for your words. My thoughts on the matter are much the same as yours, but I hadn't managed to come up with the words to express them on my own. The questions you ask Paul are the questions I would like to have asked on my own if only I had been able to formulate them.
-Eric Rz. Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 05:22:19AM -0300, Juan Linietsky wrote: > > > On Wednesday 16 July 2003 22:21, Nasca Paul wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > I released ZynAddSubFX 1.4.2 > > > I can understand about metal lyrics being anti-christian, we've seen > > that countless times in groups from megadeth to iron maiden, > > But I have no idea why "New Age" music is considered against god, since > > it has nothing to do with the "New Age" spiritual/religious movement (which > > is definitely anti-christian). Nowadays people calls "New Age" music to > > anything ambient, soft jazz, lounge, soundtraquesque, etc. Even people > > like vangelis gets his music called "New Age" and he never intended it > > to be associated with that name. As far as I know, and for historical reasons, > > the idea of the term comes from the idea of ritualistic music based on > > sustained voices, beats and nature elements inspired on indian tranditions > > and that kind of things, but was rapidly taken by musicans to call anything > > nature/ambient and out of the context of religion. Maybe the site should > > specify "Anti christian ritual music"? > > This may be off-topic, but not entirely. When the author of an audio > app requests users not to use his work to produce music that is anti- > Christian, I wonder what is meant by this. If this were a commercial > app, I wouldn't bother about it for a second. But since it is open > source and just given to me, I do. > > All major religions share the same ethical values - of love, respect for > human life (and to varying degrees, other forms of life), honesty, etc. > And I think all of this can be subscribed to by most of humanity. > > With the possible exception of Buddhism, which in all its variations > emphasises personal responsability and offers little else to blame for > your misery, all of them also offer a scala of tendencies ranging from > fundamentalist (adherence to rules) to spriritual (adherence to principles). > Where they differ is in how they try to explain things - creation, the > choice of moral values, etc. > > So what does it mean to be 'anti-Christian'? Personally, I'll be anti-X > when either X is harmful to society, or when X propagates intolerance to > other ways of thinking. > > So my question to the author if ZynAddSubFX is this: if I use your work > to produce Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist or other religious music (all very > beautiful and elevating the spirit), do you object ? When I play Mozart's > freemason's mourning music which can bring tears to my eyes, do you mind ? > > If yes, I will respect this and not use your work at all. > If no, maybe you should consider rephrasing your conditions. > > With kind regards, > > FA
