I'm sure some good can be found in the works of Martin Luther before his apostasy.

Likewise, Judas, no doubt, said and did commendable things before his betrayal of Our Blessed Lord...

While we're at it, Lucifer had much to recommend about himself before his Great Fall.

The point being that there are some whose ends are so evil, whatever good that may have come before is rightly eclipsed forever. And promoting drug use, occultism, sɛҳuąƖ immorality, and penning the Materialist-Atheist anthem par excellence ("Imagine") absolutely constitutes a sufficently evil end to warrant forever turning our backs to the (extremely minor) "good" of having written a few catchy pop tunes.

I have solved the Imagine problem by simply not listening to the song. It doesn't change my affection for Pls Pls Me, She love U, IWTHYH, All My Loving, Roll Over Beethoven etc.   :ready-to-eat:

So you've decided to ignore the Beatles' later, openly Satanic works so that you may continue to enjoy the junky pop pablum they produced back when they were merely softening and anesthetizing the Baby Boomer generation for the evil that was to come?

Listen, I sympathize with you. I understand what it's like to have an attachment to the music you listened to in your formative years. I went into my own experience with giving up evil music that I used to love in this thread:

http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php?a=topic&t=26026&min=15

I still have an emotional and aesthetic attachment to Boards of Canada (and all the other modernist music I once listened to "religiously" - pun intended), but, with prayer and grace, this can be faced as all temptations must be faced - with resistance, not excuse making and acquiescence. We should flee from such things wholly - not partly - and never look back.

"As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is the fool that repeateth his folly" - Proverbs 26:11

"Remember Lot's wife." - Gospel according to St Luke, 17:32

Sorry if the above sounds uncharitable but unless i am mistaken, it is the heresy of Peter Waldo that condemns even the most innocent of human pleasures.

Your comparison of Luther to the Beatles is interesting in that the latter can also be said to have slid( so to speak) into heresy( hippies)  after 1965.

Fortunately the Beatles( under the leadership of George & Paul) rebound in late 1968 & 69 with some classic tracks.

Lighten up!!!!!! :scared2:

Describing your thoughts as charitable are your words--- not mine. At any rate, I apologised & unless i am mistaken, it is uncharitable not to accept it.

That doesn't change my astonishment that so many waste their time trashing even early Beatles when there are many  hundreds of in your face satanic bands out there.