2007-09-28 11:15:59 · 25 answers · asked by Partisan Cheese 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's like oil and water. Rock and roll is all about rebellion. About individualism, enjoying life, having fun. It's about drinking and screwing and throwing away the oppressive rules of polite society. Christianity embodies everything that rock and roll rebels against.
Religion belongs in torturously dull hymns and elevator music, not in rock.
2007-09-28 11:23:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 1⤋
lets start with stating that rock isnt a christian type of music in general. track back its origins, and look up info about private lives of the rock singers. or the things they themselves said about this particular style of music. im sure u'll notice words like 'tribal', 'chaotic', and 'unorganized'. i was wondering about this subject too, and im just telling u what i've come to. rock is music. the only thing that makes it 'christian' is the words. but the words dont change the music. music has great influence on the listeners. the music isn't christian. thus, the influence isnt christian either. there is no such a thing as christian rock, which is why the music that's called by that name is still so soul-destroyingly awful. the end :)
2007-09-28 18:30:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the root of Rock is the Blues. The greatest and most enduring rock band ever, Led Zeppelin, was basically a blues band. You take away the blues, and all you have left is a hollow shell.
Christians are full of the good news, and joyful. Christian rock is by definition void of the blues. This is why folk is a better vehicle for christian music.
2007-09-28 18:39:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It sounds like any other rock station music. Romans 12:2 . 1 John 2:15
2007-09-28 18:28:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ah, some will say stop insulting Christian rock...
I'm a Christian, and I say:
The stuff is terrible.
The fact is, Christian rock is often an over-indulgent performance. Terrible...
X-ian rock doesn't make Christianity better, but it sure makes rock look awful!
Listen to miserere:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0m6f4brxkg
THAT is what Chrisitian music is supposed to be like. Beautiful, not bloody awful (I like your soul-destroying description. I'll remember that one)
2007-09-28 18:23:33 · answer #5 · answered by CanadianFundamentalist 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
The fact that they put the lyrical subject (not even so much the lyrical content/flow/originality) as being more important than everything else. Such as, learning how to play your instrument.
Like it or not, "Christian Rock" is just another mass-marketed form of music run by record companies who work on a specific target audience, and when it comes to signing bands prefer quantity over quality.
2007-09-28 18:27:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Christian" rock has nothing to do with Christianinty what so ever. You can't take the Bible and prove "Christian" rock is Christian.
Brenda C (9 above me) comment alone is proof that Christian rock is not Christian music.
2007-09-28 18:28:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm afraid I have a confession to make. I, a fully practicing Atheist and some of my Atheist friends are in LOVE with Christian Rock! We just can't get enough!
2007-09-28 18:22:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
well i think that depends on the person listening to it. I'm not Christian, but was flipping through the music channels on cable the other night and one of them was a Christian music channel.
I've never heard such weepy, sickeningly sweet, disgusting noises in my life, with the possible exception of Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life" back in the '70's. Many people came to the point where they would rather have thrown themselves off a tall building than have to hear that song one more time. Me included.
But you know, there were plenty of people who loved it. I will never, ever understand those people. But then, I don't have to. I just stay far away from them. I apply this same principle to Christians and their music. Works fine, lasts a long time.
2007-09-28 18:23:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
What gets produced isn't measured first in terms of quality, but rather what is the most "Christian". Producing the same results as, say, Soviet art. Good stuff here and there, but mostly mind-numbing repetitive tedium.
Note: this is not to say that mainstream radio-friendly music is necessarily any better. It usually isn't.
2007-09-28 18:20:39 · answer #10 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋