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7/6/2025, 9:55:06 PM
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Sabaton's "The Last Stand" is a Catholic song, and it is a song first, Catholic second, by a band without any Catholics.
The Lord of the Rings is a Catholic story fundamentally, but not explicitly, written by a Catholic
In other words, you have a point but its not the whole answer, Tolkien did not even realize how much of his faith he put in the story at first, and it only became obvious upon his revisions. Sabaton intended only to portray the pontifical guard in the same way they portrayed anyone else, but by its subject matter it was rendered wholly Catholic.
Art done BY Christians IS Christian art, and art done by non-christians who grew up Christian CAN be christian art, art can also be explicitly Christian and be so firstly, done by either Christian or not, and still be beautiful (see: endless religions icons, paintings, architecture, etc), but PROTESTANTS have an issue that is singularly theirs, where they fear subtlety (because they are in rebellion against it) and so must be EXPLICIT in how they present something.
Think of that protslop "the chosen" and how it handled Christ's disappearance from the temple.
To a Catholic, like say, Mel Gibson, It would be proper and sufficient to depict his disappearance as the mob simply not being able to see him. To the vulgar sensibilities of the protestant, they found it fit to instead depict God himself concerned with fear and fleeing on foot in response to the attempt to stone him. They are simply not capable of art depicting the faith because they dont have it.
Sabaton's "The Last Stand" is a Catholic song, and it is a song first, Catholic second, by a band without any Catholics.
The Lord of the Rings is a Catholic story fundamentally, but not explicitly, written by a Catholic
In other words, you have a point but its not the whole answer, Tolkien did not even realize how much of his faith he put in the story at first, and it only became obvious upon his revisions. Sabaton intended only to portray the pontifical guard in the same way they portrayed anyone else, but by its subject matter it was rendered wholly Catholic.
Art done BY Christians IS Christian art, and art done by non-christians who grew up Christian CAN be christian art, art can also be explicitly Christian and be so firstly, done by either Christian or not, and still be beautiful (see: endless religions icons, paintings, architecture, etc), but PROTESTANTS have an issue that is singularly theirs, where they fear subtlety (because they are in rebellion against it) and so must be EXPLICIT in how they present something.
Think of that protslop "the chosen" and how it handled Christ's disappearance from the temple.
To a Catholic, like say, Mel Gibson, It would be proper and sufficient to depict his disappearance as the mob simply not being able to see him. To the vulgar sensibilities of the protestant, they found it fit to instead depict God himself concerned with fear and fleeing on foot in response to the attempt to stone him. They are simply not capable of art depicting the faith because they dont have it.
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