But watching the TV spots always left me feeling slightly queasy, like I was in a small, slightly overheated room with poor ventilation and one of those dreadful scented room candles. Oh yeah, if I had listened for too long, I knew I would be getting a whomper of a headache. And the thought of the people who made up the audiences for such music depressed me. And my reactions just baffled me, though I admit I didn’t give the matter much thought, as I would flip the channel as quickly as if I had inadvertently tuned in to the Jerry Springer Show. Ick, ick, look away.

So thanks to all of the above for helping me understand my reactions, and doing it without compelling me to listen to more of the treacly gloppy nonsense.

Ick, ick, plug your ears.

I remember some of World Wide Message Tribe’s music was very enthusiastic but shamelessly ripped off Prodigy’s riffs. A lot of modern Christian music sounds like watered-down derivatives of secular counterparts. To get the really quality stuff, you gotta rock out to Bach. :)

“Prepare yourself, you know it’s a must;
Gotta have a friend named Jesus.
So you know that when you die,
He’s gonna recommend you to the spirit in the sky.”

Then again, that song was written by a Jewish guy who didn’t believe any of it.

I do agree with letting ones children decide, as long as the parent also is allowed to tell their children what they believe is true.

The religious myth is but one unimportant piece of the lie. The deception is not the myth of any one faith, but the false impression there are answers to the unanswerable. Giving children the idea there is an answer is the danger.

And as for your ignorant remark about my parents, I can only say that while they were alive they cared for me and loved me. They never indicated that they thought of me as a mistake. I assume the same of your parents.

I do agree with letting ones children decide, as long as the parent also is allowed to tell their children what they believe is true.

Well you see that’s the problem right there, because the parents minds are usually circumcised. Obviously religion has been a complete failure, but it’s easier to blame all our problems on a few sinners. We need to leave all this archaic BS in the past where it belongs. Clinging to this stuff is similar to At some point the brainwashing has to stop if humans are ever going to live in peace.

If you build a robot to beat the game, the disc self-destructs.

My experience with ALL pop music has been that it’s mostly been terribly derivative of the work of well-established secular artists. I don’t think Christian music is any worse an offender in this regard.

Clay(17) – Yes. Brilliantly put too, I LOL’d.

Keneke – Yeah, I’ve always puzzled about that. The band are all Christians (or were all Christian; didn’t they replace someone a while ago?) and happy to admit it, but have insisted in a couple of interviews I’ve read that they’re not a “Christian group”.

However, I’ve heard plenty of people claiming that they’re a religious group and that some of their songs are clearly addressing God or have other religious themes. I can see the argument (Going Under could almost be a prayer), but tend to think that people just see religious references because they’re looking for them.

Oooh, bad choice of words. Takuan ate his siblings.