FleshAndBloodTheocracy
Living Apple
Symphony X (if they are?),
They are not.
I mean, they aren't UNChristian, but they are certainly not Christian either.
They still rock though, The Odyssey is an epic win.
Symphony X (if they are?),
No, the attitude to which you refer more often than not springs up from self-righteousness, neophobia, and high-pressure churches separated from the surrounding culture by fear.Seriously, dude? That sort of close-mindedness is so negative for the world, from any viewpoint. Everything you listen to now has to be Jesus-y? (And heck, even if you do hold yourself to that absurd standard, why not play Sadly Sings Destiny and The Edge, BG songs with Hansi's Christian slant?) What you're talking about is the same attitude that has EXTREME MORALISTS (P.S.: all secretly gay, they always are ) condemning anything with a guitar solo as CHILD-CORRUPTING SATAN INCARNATE.
No, the attitude to which you refer more often than not springs up from self-righteousness, neophobia, and high-pressure churches separated from the surrounding culture by fear.
The place from which this attitude springs, on the other hand, appears non-judgmental, focused on this individual's desire to avoid certain negative influences that they experience when listening to said music. There is no reason to assume the closed-mindedness of which you speak; nobody is pressuring anybody else to stop listening to any music or condemning the music itself. All that was stated was a personal decision.
As a Christian who listens to secular music all the time, I do not see any reason to take offense. Why, I wonder, did you respond in such an extreme fashion?
And John Lennon (of the Beatles) supports a terrible image through his song Imagine (which many might find arguable)
It's just not worth it, I'm afraid. My beliefs likely clash with yours, which makes it difficult to discuss "influence" of music on equal ground. In addition, I never was particularly interested in discussing "Imagine"; I was interested in discussing why one would forcibly restrict themselves to music of only a single theme, or played by a single group of people.
Add that to the natural propensity of the Internet for escalating any rational discussion into inanity (which I fell prey to myself earlier in this discussion), and it just seems far better to talk about how much Theocracy rocks.