Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: nick@lfcs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Some thoughts on "Christian Music" Message-ID: Date: 5 Feb 90 08:53:01 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: LFCS Enya Admiration Society Lines: 30 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , userUAC3@mts writes: >Christian music tends to be quite different. If a person is not >a Christian, and hears talk of praising God, and Jesus, etc. in >the lyrics, then they might feel uncomfortable. Not that that's >bad, but if you make people uncomfortable, then you're not going >to sell many records. (I'm thinking of Praise & Worship stuff.) Ah, I think this is heading into deeper water...! I sometimes feel uncomfortable singing this kind of "Christian" music, or listening to it, since I feel it puts across this rather shallow feeling of naive optimism which I can't identify with - Praise the Lord, clap your hands, life is beautiful, and so on. In fact, the world isn't like this, instead it's an incredibly rich mixture of human belief, striving, human failing, a myriad of wonderful things and all kinds of horror and evil [ :-( ]. I think the best music reflects this contrast. I'd like my music to reflect and communicate this element of "striving" as well. So, does this mean I'm not interested in Christian music, or does it mean my Christian music is going to be a little unconventional? In being more abstract (all this stuff about human strife and so on) does it somehow cease to be Christian? >In Christ, -= Scott Advani =- ditto, Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk !mcvax!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ...als das Kind, Kind war...