Posted on 02/28/2021 7:59:12 AM PST by BenLurkin
NICOSIA, Cyprus — A man has been charged with uttering threats and causing a disturbance after barging onto the grounds of Cyprus' public broadcaster to protest what he said was the country's "blasphemous" entry into this year's Eurovision song contest, police said Sunday.
Police said witnesses to Saturday's incident told investigators the man verbally accosted employees outside the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation's news department. He was apparently upset that the broadcaster had selected the song "El Diablo" ("The Devil") performed by Greek singer Elena Tsagrinou to represent Cyprus, since he said it was as an affront to Christianity.
Amateur video of the man confronting CyBC staff showed him screaming at a number of employees in the yard, asking how they could justify supporting such a song.
The title of "El Diablo" as well as it's lyrics — "I gave my heart to el diablo...because he tells me I'm his angel" — have touched a raw nerve with some in the east Mediterranean island nation, who consider it to be fraught with Satanic connotations.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
Cause I’m in need of some restraint
So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I’ll lay your soul to waste
Um yeah
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, um yeah
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
Writer(s): Jagger Mick, Richard Keith
I was all set to say “That song title “El Diablo” is just a song title, then I read that line of lyric.
I can understand why some would be concerned.
It’s not spiritually healthy to play around with such a concept.
On a side note, I didn’t know the Eurovision Song Contest was still a big deal. I first heard about it around 1980, while in the Navy and stopping at various European ports.
Good for them to keep the tradition going.
Don’t ruin it by giving praise to the devil.
“with some ... who consider it to be fraught with Satanic connotations.”
Gee, it’s not a connotation, it’s right there in black and white. SMH
As people drift further into unbelief, they become defenseless before enemies they can’t even identify.
Love that.
— “I gave my heart to el diablo...because he tells me I’m his angel” —
He only wants you to turn away from God. Beyond that you mean nothing to him. Any promise he makes you, if he even bothers to make one, is a meaningless lie. He being the Father of Lies.
But if I say I’ll never mention the LORD or speak in His Holy Name, His word burns in my heart like a fire. It’s like a fire in my bones! I am worn out trying to hold it in! I can’t do it! - Jeremiah 20:9
Amen.
As an American who thoroughly enjoys the europop trash of Eurovision each year (yes I have an playlist on my phone of my favorites- 4 hours and 44 minutes worth), the Eurovision scene is sadly one of hedonism, homosexuality and no morals.
It was delightful in it’s early days when everyone sang in their country’s language. But with Dana International and that horrible Conchita Wurst being the heroes of the Eurovision culture is it any wonder this type of blatant devil worship got in? Lordi’s “Hard Rock Hallelujah” was just as blasphemous and it WON.
Please Eurovision, keep the wind machines, the key change in the middle, the gimmicky dancers on ice skates or hamster wheels, but can we just have songs about Love, Love, Peace, Peace?
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