Well, it's been a while. I guess I need to post so people don't come hunt me down and string me up and tar and feather me and then draw and quarter me. Yeah, that would be most unpleasant. Well what can I write about. Hhhhhmmmmmmm................................... Oh well I guess I could talk about the things that made my school, well really hot and bothered lately.
Well let's see, the school I go to is a very conservative Christian place (in the office they have a list of the only hymnals allowed to be used in chapel). A couple of months back my principal began talking with the junior and senior classes about musical styles and why rock music is bad, including CCM (conteparary Christian music) rock music. So now, our principal decided to bring in a preacher to prove it to us.
Well for the last three days we have been listening to these sermons (two sermons a day). The first two were pretty good, with very basic points discussing musics importance and the need for standards. Then the second day the first sermon was okay but then the second opened a family sized can of worms. He began discussing the dangers of rock music. At first it was okay, using very basic logic to come to perfectally reasonable conclusions. Then he began the rythem argument. This basically says that any song with accented (easily noticible) 2nd and 4th beats are evil. After he finishes with this contreversial argument he asks for questions. Then the day became extremely bad. The students began to get annoyed that he wouldn't answer questions fully so then the argumentation became personal. Then the preacher got defensive. Then the entire chapel went downhill from there. No one left that chapel service happy. Those of us on the debate team met for around a hour discussing the sermon.
Well today was so weird that it really wasn't worth going to see the sermons. The preacher started out trying to make himself look good and look like his point was the right point. Well then he used for examples of church worship music groups like Thousand Foot Krutch, Pillar, and Grits. This annoyed me more than anything else becase the examples he gave for worship music were not meant as worship music. Using the above mentioned groups he procceeded to say that all CCM worship music w/ a rock beat were wrong and all Christian Rock is evil. To get to the last point he used the above mentioned rythem argument. The only problem is that I don't believe in the rythem argument and then the Q&A time became personal w/ the preacher not answering questions and not understanding the questions and the students were asking questions over and over and over .
Basically the last three days in school have been useless from a spirtual standpoint because no one was going to change their mind anyway.
So that's all that is going on in my life right now.
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We can't all be kuncle kids. There is no use agueing that subject with me unless you want a swif kick to the face. If they use the argument that a beat makes the song evil, then somone could sing praises to Satan in hymn form adn it would be ok right? :P
My bottom line is: I have gotten more out of some Christian rock music then I have outof all this new music that the church sings. Just look at some of the lyrics from TFk and Pillar, THAT IS GREAT STUFF!! And I couldent think of it being sung better to a slower beat. Rock beats have more feeling in them, at least most of the time, you can sing or screem depending n the point you want to get across.
Carlos, I suggest that you, yes you, stand up and ask the guy if he wants to get rid of this music, then read the lyrics to like "Breath you in" or "when in doubt". But I doubt it will get you anywere. The preacher probably wount budge, not for a student.
It's just one of those things, Don't get ticked over it. It's not worth it.
The Fiish
That's the same thing I said. Yeah he played the TFK song "Rawkfist" and the Pillar song "Bring Me Down" as examples of worship music. That is what ticked me off the most was the blatent twisting of the facts that these rock songs are not worshipful and neither were they ment to be. Yeah it was kinda funny. One group of students went up to him w/ questions (of course)and of course he didn't answer any questions well. Then he told the students to change their opions. One student asked the preacher if he would change his view and he said "No". Can you believe that?!!!! If he wanted us to change our minds he needed to be willing to change his mind as well. Oh well that's enough of my ranting. ttyl ahckmed.
PS if you get a chance when your in the states pick up a CD set called "!Hero: The Rock Opera". It is a great retelling of the story of Jesus in the modern era.
Did he also say that aircraft and cars and guns and computers and flashlights are evil, too? I'm sure I don't need to remind anyone of the events that occured on 11 September 2001; I've seen some pretty bad wrecks where someone tried to kill someone else using a vehicle; I've been to murder scenes where a gun was used to kill someone; I've also seen a flashlight used to murder someone; and don't get me started on all the things that computers can be used for that's evil.
The main point here is that are the aforementioned objects are amoral. That means that they're neither good nor bad. They have no inherrent traits or qualities. They're objects. That said, they can all be used in the wrong way (I've listed some examples) and the oppritunities for the use of these objects abused. But there are hundreds, if not thousands of purposes for these objects for good.
Music is the same way. It can be used for good (to praise God and lift others up), and it can be used for evil (to curse God and bring others down). Many people associate it with the latter; heck, some churches still won't even let a guitar be played in the service.
The point people make about rock music being bad is partly true: there are people and bands who use it in the wrong way. But it's the same way with cults founded on Christian principles: they used Christian values and teachings in the wrong way.
So, anyway, I hope that's somewhat coheisive. Oh, and I hope your preacher didn't use his "evil" car to get there or his "evil" computer to print his sermon out. :-P
No he just used the "evil" computer and the "evil" projector and speakers to play the "evil" music in chapel to get his "evi..." (I guess I got carried away there) point across. lol.
TTYL
Carlos, ask him if the Lord's Prayer is evil.
It is the single most ppopular verse amonge stanic worshipers does that mean it should be taken out of the Bible?
There is Satanic Rock, there are also Satanic hymns. If musiic isnt worshiping the Devil or principals that are agains the Word, I see no point to bickkering about it.
One last thing, tell this to the preacher or get one of your crazy friemds to do it: Mr. Preacher sir, just the way that you're going about trying to prove that the music we listen to is bad, you're sowing anger and ill will in the whole school.
The Fiish
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