Re: I Own Brad Noahs Cab!!! Sucka!
Xeromus said:
not to hijack Seraphim, and off topic:
We may serve well to start a fresh topic elsewhere. I have a feeling that the potential for this to be discussed at length, and productively, could very well be likely.
Xeromus said:
I've noticed the only people that know about "popular" christian rock bands and that go to see their shows are christian people. If I happen to catch one I usually have to try to control the reflex to vomit.
Not to defend a genre that I'm generally averse to due to my own beliefs (..God free since 1993!) not EVERY Christian Rock band is heavy-handed.
Xeromus said:
Soul/Gospel/Choir music I can see preaching the glory of god. (I'm not religious either) But Christian rock & roll and metal is the biggest piece of hypocritical terd I've ever seen.
But is it hipocrisy or is it those that have embraced what the future will permit? Soul and Gospel was viewed as pretty evil by hard-liners at one point in time. And even with more fundamentalist branches of Catholicism typical Soul and Gospel would be wholly inappropriate in church or for services.
Xeromus said:
Christians used to shun rock & roll as being the devil's music. Now it's like "well hmm the kids seem to like it, we can use it to further our cause". Much like companies who use a different trendy ad campaign once they notice that it works.
It's an interesting theory....and at the core I believe alot of it has to do with the manner in which the church has become splintered (or diverse...depends on who you ask) in the past years.
At the very crux something like Christian Rock is a recruitment tool. They've used the "Rock" like those looking to sign college kids up for credit cards have useed bags of M and M's and T-shirts. They've used it like the military uses the rock band that (this practice may have stopped since I was in high school) shows up for a Seniors Assembly in High School to recruit for the Armed Forces.
Is the general "evil" or "negative" nature of rock and roll enough to be overlooked by those doing it if the outcome results in what their goal is; more members in their religion whose, according to them, souls are "saved"?
Xeromus said:
Christian rock bands are like a commercial to me. Plus like it said, it's hypocritical terd. I can't listen to anything that contradicts itself.
Christian Rock has always been like a hooker with a ***** to me. Some poor sod cozies up and thinks they're in for some serious rockin' and then "BAM!!!!!!" What's that thing!?!?!?! But I thought.....what?!?!
It always seemed under-handed to me.
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