The Answer to Abolishing Pachelbel's Canon
In one of the stupidest court rulings in history, a federal judge upheld the ban of an instrumental version of Ave Maria from a public school ceremony because it was deemed religious.
Yes, that is just nonsense. Most of our music today is derived from or influenced by religious music. Which got me thinking ... Pachelbel's Canon is not a religious tune as best I can tell, but he did write a lot of religious music, and we could perhaps perform a service to society if we banned all music based on it!
Yes, that is just nonsense. Most of our music today is derived from or influenced by religious music. Which got me thinking ... Pachelbel's Canon is not a religious tune as best I can tell, but he did write a lot of religious music, and we could perhaps perform a service to society if we banned all music based on it!
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
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