Okay...for the record I don't listen to Bad Religion. At all. Now...
I don't think the music we listen to defines us. If it did, I would be some punk kid from the late '90s with green hair. What we listen to and who we are are not exactly the same thing.
Is music bad?
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Okay...so since music doesn't define who we are, it's okay to listen to Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, and Eminem just because that "doesn't define us"? I'd like some clarity on this one.
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Anna, I think this is something you should pray about for sure. Its easy to see a strong opinion on something and just become convinced that it's for you when it's not. At the same time if it's God speaking to you, you don't want to rationalize, or put him off.Anna><> wrote:I was reading this one website and it basically said CMT was of the devil and causes divorces and all sorts of bad stuff. Now I've been listening to country music for a few years and I know that not all of it is good, but this site got me to start questioning whether I should listen to it, or any other secular music at all. The site was extremist but it had some convincing arguments. Now I'm just left here wondering if I should delete all the music off my iPod or not. What do you guys think? Should I delete it all or not? If I delete it I'll have plenty of aio, dgl, and podcasts to listen to. I just like some of it for working out with but if God is against it I'll delete the music.
I know of 2 girls that threw away their iPods when they got saved. They both knew that their iPods were stumblingblocks for them. I on the other hand, have no problem keeping certain secular songs on my iPod. Every person has different standards and God calls us to do different things.
I wouldn't attempt to tell you what you should do in this situaion. But I would say pray hard and look for older godly counsel on the subject!
I agree. Now, listening to Lady Gaga doesn't mean that you look and act like her. .or Ke$ha. .but if you're listening to them, isn't that, to some part, defining you? What defines you is what you do, and how you act. And what you listen to is a part of that.TigerintheShadows wrote:Okay...so since music doesn't define who we are, it's okay to listen to Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, and Eminem just because that "doesn't define us"? I'd like some clarity on this one.
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That's fine I guess. But I wouldn't listen to it for fun. Maybe for research or something but if you actually like the song and sing the lyrics to it, well, I don't know... it just seems wrong if you're a Christian.Steve wrote:Okay, here's a question about the singer making fun of Jesus/God or Christianity. What if listening to say, Bad Religion's music helps you understand what you believe? What if someone questioning your faith makes you want to deepen it all the more? This can happen.BobbyCow wrote:It's not necessarily bad. But if you start listening to songs that cuss and have inappropriate lyrics, well yeeeaahhhh that's obviously not good. Classical, Coutnry, Rock 'N' Roll, and Pop, those are all fine. As long as cussing and inappropriate lyrics aren't involved with them. And nobody should listen to music about singer's making fun of Jesus/God or Christianity, I mean, I don't know about you but when I listen to people like that it just makes me angry. I get angry easily, I guess.
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31899 wrote:Not everything played by an orchestra, that is instrumental, or is old is classical.