Does anybody else just LOVE country music? It send the True message of today's Christianity, that you can be as filthy and immoral as you want, but as long as you blurt out "I love Jesus" at socially inappropriate times, you're still somehow a good person--I cannot wait for Daryl Singletary's new one:
I cheated on my wife with Harvey
Anal skeered me half to death
I know Jesus forgives me
'Coz Harv sells Crystal meth..........
2007-11-02 06:01:07 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It has always boggled my mind that rock music is singled out by Christians for their lyrical content, and yet country music -- with lyrics like this -- is ignored. Could it be because country's fanbase is largely conservative, and with that, largely Christian?
Hm.
Christians are the MASTERS of selective observation.
2007-11-02 06:06:36 · answer #1 · answered by bamidélé 4 · 16⤊ 1⤋
I don't smoke but I do use smokeless tobacco. What I do is called dipping, not chewing. I've dipped for 25 year, the last 20 of which I have used Copenhagen. I wish I had never started.
2016-04-02 00:42:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cowboys are special with their own brand of misery,
From being alone too long.
You could die from the cold in the arms of a nightmare,
Knowin' well that your best days are gone.
Pickin' up hookers instead of my pen ...
/**************/
(( there's a particular affect in some C&W lyrics which somehow appeals to a reflective mind .. and I've never been a cowboy ... there is a message content which is found nowhere else in the musical world, tho the same might be said for Stones, Dylan, Clapton, et al ))
/**************/
My heroes have always been cowboys.
And they still are, it seems.
Sadly, in search of, but one step in back of,
Themselves and their slow-movin' dreams.
/**************/
"well, they'll stone you when you're drivin'
in your car .."
/**************/
oh yeah, back to the central question ...
"being a member" has a set of comforts
and some folks think that what you mention is
one form of the "secret handshake"
a form which also propagates the club membership
dunno
2007-11-02 07:31:15 · answer #3 · answered by atheistforthebirthofjesus 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
ROFL that's funny. Sad, but True....
i propose the following lyrics to be the next stanza in your song.......
♫ I lost my wife, I lost my truck
got drunk last night, and had a good f---
with my cousin's wife, she has a great bod...
then went to church and talked to God.
As I'm sippin my 40, I know it's all good,
cuz of the blood of the Lamb,
i'm hypocritical unrepentant
to the bartender named Sam,
he tells me it's fine, and all is well
as long as i pay the priest in doobies
i won't go to hell .....
after church i drive home
and crack open a beer
i got 6 more days of sinnin'
before i pray again in fear.......♫
*thinks* only country music singers & rappers can justify doing all kinds of wrong and illegal/immoral activities, and then throw around God's name in the same song, and sing within the same breath about dealing drugs and banging a prostitue AND then on God's love, acting like all is well and good because they said the name "Jesus". *sighs* i don't get it.
♥
*edit* Jay's answer was funny, but i've heard that before; it's an OLD joke.
2007-11-02 06:26:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Oh, c'mon. Music is music, and crappy stuff is a part of the human experience. My favorite artist is a Country singer songwriter who happens to be a JW. Yes, she sings about cheating... or, actually, mostly about not cheating even though she might be tempted. And she sings about Jesus (who I don't believe in as a deity). Actually, her stuff is pretty moral when I think about it. But, anyway, I love the music, the vocals, the instrumentation... and I'm not ready to write of an entire genre just because the subject matter leans towards chewing tobacco, smoking, booze, drugs, violence, murder, vandalism, public endangerment,and Jesus. (And you forgot infidelity.)
2007-11-02 06:15:18 · answer #5 · answered by ZombieTrix 2012 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I bought a really sick mule from a Christian-she down right lied about this mule-I found out that it was given to her for free, yet she sold it to me. I have had nothing but heart ache!
But I think she can do all this stuff because she is forgiven!
I'm sorry, but I believe in Karma! and therefore, I would never in a million years do anything like this to someone eles!
2007-11-02 06:07:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Haha. lol.
Those lyrics are the beginning of a beautiful song.
Same thing Barbara said except mine's Cradle of Filth.
2007-11-02 06:14:24 · answer #7 · answered by Nurse Winchester 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Nothing beats Jay's answer lol!
I also bet poor Johnny Cash got picked on by ignorant people thinking he's Satan or something because he dressed in Black.
R.I.P Johnny & June!
2007-11-02 06:11:10 · answer #8 · answered by ♆Şрhĩņxy - Lost In Time. 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I personally love old country. New country is commercial pop with boots on.
"First time I shot her, I shot her in the side
Hard to watch her suffer, but with the second shot she died.
Delia's gone. One more round. Delia's gone."
-JC
2007-11-02 09:30:25 · answer #9 · answered by marbledog 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Country music does not send the true message of today's christianity.
Listen to Casting Crowns, Third Day, Chris Rice, Mercy Me they are all good groups representing today's christianity.
The music your talking about represents non-christians and hypocrites.
2007-11-02 06:08:07 · answer #10 · answered by rikirailrd 4 · 4⤊ 3⤋