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In reply to the discussion: Feed your head. (Jefferson Airplane, White Rabbit) [View all]Sweeney
(505 posts)If there were no bullets in the gun, no one would be shot with it. The rhyme certainly existed before the Church and the spirit that filled those folks. A rhyme was the form of a Druid Curse. From the Latin we have Charm, and the name: Carmine, which in Latin means song.
To follow the development of Christian Music into secular forms is no great feat. -Is it the idea of Cause and Effect which trips you up, because without that, we have no basis for reason or science.
This story is really analogous to the history of European literacy. People were taught to read by the protestants who had first translated the Bible, and wanted it generally read. Once people learned to read, they read far more than the Bible and found they had some ideas of their own. It was the beginning of the age of reason.