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Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 9:53 am
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I have pretty eclectic taste. I mean, I'm all for dcTalk and Demon Hunter, and then I move over to MercyMe and Phillips Craig and Dean. Then on the secular side, i'm a HUGE Disturbed fan, Flogging Molly, Evanescence, and some other bands I won't name for fear of being labeled a geek. xd So, as you can see, I have absolutely no issue with non-Christian music. I listen to everything from death metal to country, Marilyn Manson to hymms. It doesn't change my faith. It doesn't change the way I think, or the way I talk, or the way I look at things. Some people it might, but then reason stands that if you're that easily affected by music, obviously take care what you're listening to.
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Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 10:22 am
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Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 4:04 pm
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Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 7:51 pm
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Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 3:56 am
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Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 4:29 pm
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Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 8:03 pm
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Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 9:13 pm
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 2:32 am
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koolchristiangirl Now dear brothers and sisters, let me say one more thing as I close this letter. Fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right. Think about things that are pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. Philippians 4:8 As Christians, we should protect our mind from things that are not pure. We should avoid music that leads us to to think about untrue, dishonorable, unadmirable,unlovely,or impure thoughts.... as long as it doesn't have cuss words, or talk about things you know you shouldn't listen to, or affect your faith there is nothing wrong with it I've yet to figure out why cursing is condemned by many Christians.. someone fill me in? domokun Personally, I listen to Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Slayer, Matisyahu, and Tool. And music CAN influence how religious I am, what religion I choose to spend my time researching, and it can certainly knock off the god-meter, but that's probably because I'm in religious limbo. D;;; I think what would matter to God would be your devotion, not what you put in your head. I would advise that one would be careful not to fill their head with junk, because you get what you put in, unless you keep that junk in. smile My metaphors are off. I think if your faith is strong enough, no worries. If you are a very susceptible to Satan's beats, then perhaps you should watch what you listen to!
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 5:56 pm
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 7:42 pm
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Peace Love And Skate koolchristiangirl Now dear brothers and sisters, let me say one more thing as I close this letter. Fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right. Think about things that are pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. Philippians 4:8 As Christians, we should protect our mind from things that are not pure. We should avoid music that leads us to to think about untrue, dishonorable, unadmirable,unlovely,or impure thoughts.... as long as it doesn't have cuss words, or talk about things you know you shouldn't listen to, or affect your faith there is nothing wrong with it I've yet to figure out why cursing is condemned by many Christians.. someone fill me in? domokun Personally, I listen to Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Slayer, Matisyahu, and Tool. And music CAN influence how religious I am, what religion I choose to spend my time researching, and it can certainly knock off the god-meter, but that's probably because I'm in religious limbo. D;;; I think what would matter to God would be your devotion, not what you put in your head. I would advise that one would be careful not to fill their head with junk, because you get what you put in, unless you keep that junk in. smile My metaphors are off. I think if your faith is strong enough, no worries. If you are a very susceptible to Satan's beats, then perhaps you should watch what you listen to!
The thing with swearing has to do with the associations that society and the culture tie with the words. Our culture has made the f-word bad (and yet it's okay to say it; what a backwards society we live in -.-). If the word sink was bad or considered a curse word, it would be something Christians should stay away from as well, because we should be representing God, not necessarily the culture or society we live in. If that makes sense. confused
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 3:20 am
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 4:35 pm
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 5:31 pm
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Well, my personal experience has been this: Ever since I've become a Christian, I've listened to less and less non-Christian music. Not because someone told me that it was wrong, it's just that I had my own personal conviction of what I should and shouldn't be listening to. I just didn't want to listen to a lot of the non-Christian stuff I used to listen to. It wasn't really appealing to me anymore.
Even before I was saved, I had a thing with curse words. I didn't like listening to music that had the words in them, and I personally didn't like to curse (I will admit that I did have moments where I would let some words out in particular situations) I could take a curse word here or there, but I wouldn't listen to music that had the singer cursing through practically the entire song, or music that had some...for lack of a better word, stupid topics ( including but not limited to: "my b/f or g/f left me...nooo!" "shake that money maker!" "We be in da club, yo!" "I'm a gansta, foo!" "my b/f or g/f left me...nooo! *except with whiny, screaming voice*" "Just bought me a pair of new shoes!!!! Look at my expensive new shoes and gold in my mouth that could've gotten the people in my video that I love sooo much out of the ghetto if only I had donated the money to them instead of getting these ugly things on my teeth, dawg!" "Check out my oversized white t-shirt!" ) xd I had too much fun writing that...
So anyways, like someone had mentioned earlier, the thing with cursing wasn't necessarily just because of being a Christian, some people just don't like curse words ( like myself.) Now, why it's condemned by many Christians, I can't really give a good answer. I've always believed it to be wrong, and still do.
But yeah, back to the subject...nowadays, I listen to mainly worship and Christian rock songs because I'm drawn more to that kind of music, not because someone beat me with a Humongoginormous ( Humongous + Gigantic + Enormous ) Bible(tm) and said "Bad! No more secular music for you!"
I just kind of lost interest in the other stuff. xd to be honest, though, I've always thought that most of the mainstream stuff ( MTV, BET, Fuse, radio stuff etc. ) out there was garbage, anyways, so it wasn't too much of a difference.
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