What do you think about listening to non-Christian music???

[freelance lover]

I'm pretty liberal in my choices... I honestly don't have that much Christian music because I'm poor and relatively uninformed in the Christian sector of music. I have some cool songs and bands, but honestly? The majority of my music is Broadway soundtracks and some other random secular stuff.

I will be honest, some of it is pretty R rated.

I do think that you should moniter and keep in mind what you're listening too. I'm probably being somewhat hypocritical, but I think it's important.  

[ProphecyEmpress]

It's not wrong at all. You see...if you let music phase who you are as a person, that is when it becomes a bad thing to listen to it. When you are capable of controlling yourself regardless of what you listen to, it isn't an issue. My issue is the people who listen to music which clearly IS inappropriate. Whereas my views are not so strict as most Christians', I believe that a lot of music is harming the minds of my kind, teenagers. I will not always be a teenager, but as far as I can tell I fear what will happen in my future once I have obtained adulthood. I'm not going into scientific details, but I will say that it has shown in some of many demented minds. Even my brother is starting to get corrupted by evil media. Anyway, the Naruto movie is on. I have to go watch it XD.  

[General Aragorn Pheonox]

I do listen to some non-Christian music.

But to be honest, if it is music filled with profanity and talks of violence, you shouldn't be able to tolerate it. As a Christian, you are not supposed to be able to tolerate sin, so, ya' know, kinda bad to do it.(Not saying that all non-Christian music is like this, just alot of it.)

Besides, most of the kinds of music you can hear in the non Christian realm of sounds can be heard in the Christian realm if you look hard enough.

(Disciple=pwn)  

[Fushigi na Butterfly]

If anyone wants to continue this discussion, I'm going to move this thread to the Christian music subforum. 3nodding  

[Mitsrugi-chan]

it is wrong to because it does not glorify God  

[Aroarra]

I think there's nothing wrong with it as long as it's not affecting you. Music with swears, bad language, etc., is not good.  

[Lethkhar]

purplesheep

a lot of christians listen to non-christian music. its something i personally wouldnt do because its not something which will feed or edify you spiritually, plus before i got saved i was a punk/goth and well into heavy metal, grunge, etc (so i wanted to leave my old life behind.)

but look at the lyrics of the songs u listen to lyrics and see what its promoting.. ask yourself is this something which God would want me to listen to? i guess thats how u know... xd

You don't like Grunge? cry *Runs off and cries in a corner*

Sorry, I'm from Seattle. wink That particular movement is one that we Seattlites are very proud of. Basically every big name Grunge band came out of our area. Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Alice In Chains...You name it. Basically the only one we don't have is Stone Temple Pilots, who were from California.  

[Fushigi na Butterfly]

Ah, grunge. I remember when my junior high school was full of "grungers." And all the girls has this weird fascination with the Tellitubbies and ring pops. >>  

[Lethkhar]

Fushigi na Butterfly

Ah, grunge. I remember when my junior high school was full of "grungers." And all the girls has this weird fascination with the Tellitubbies and ring pops. >>

Mm...

I'm starting up a Grunge band right now, actually. Well, Post-Grunge...  

[Corporal West]

I think that we should listen to christian musci since it opens your eyes to God as your listening. On the other hand non-cristian music isn't bad unless it profanes or violates God or people.  

[UnfaithfulBeans]

i was raised ONLY on Christian music.
(my mom thinks secular music is of the devil XD)

I like mix of music myself.

But my personal oppinion is to test music though Philippians 4:8:
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

So if the song sings of explisit profanhity and drug abuse, then no, it wouldent pass the "Philippians 4:8" test

But if its a cute love song about running in a field of flowers holding hands, then yes! its a "good" song.  

[Silver Wingling]

We had a problem in our dance team about this... On our congregation's Israeli Dance Team, we dance worship on Shabbat, but also we dance for fun after service, and on thursdays. Many of our "for fun" songs are in Hebrew... In fact, pretty much all. No one in dance team speaks Hebrew well enough to translate, and we were dancing some pretty bad songs without knowing it. Then our Rebetzion translated them for us, and... well, we stopped dancing them.

Moral - be aware of what it is you're hearing. Even if it's in Hebrew...  

[Trix Starlight]

Certainly nothing wrong with it, it's good to listen to Christian music though.