Lately, i have started listening to Christian music again, and i even picked up a bible and read a few pages for the first time in a long time. I feel like i am being sucked back into religion. I was just counting my CD's and i have 186 Christian albums and only 89 non-Christian albums. Any advice will be most welcome!
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Didn't you start a thread like this a while ago?
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
 
Stop listening to shitty music.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
Why fret over something so minor. As people pointed out to you, if you like the music, listen to it. And picking up the bible is good. Reading through it might help you remember why christianity isn't worth following in the first place.
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
 (September 29, 2012 at 3:01 pm)IUsedToBelieve Wrote: lol Mainly Christian rock and metal. Christian metal? I can't help but think of something like this: Is this how they're trying to appeal to the younger crowd? It just seems so strange compared to solemn churchgoing... John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.  (September 29, 2012 at 3:01 pm)IUsedToBelieve Wrote: I'm not listening to praise/worship music. lol Mainly Christian rock and metal. Musically, at least, it is good. That's why i'm having a hard time getting rid of it. Then don't. There's no reason to throw out something you enjoy just because you don't believe in the message.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
My daughter listens to a lot of very dark metal music and she loves it. However, in her mind there is a clear distinction between song lyrics and her own set of morals and relationship with reality. Unlike the 'messages' that she listens to she remains a strong willed yet kind, generous and well balanced individual.
I think that you have to examine the strength of your own atheism and if it is being challenged by lyrics from Christian music then put that music to one side until you are strong enough in your own views to be able to enjoy music without being coerced by any message it may contain. ![[Image: cinjin_banner_border.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=oggtheclever.com%2Fcinjin_banner_border.jpg)  RE: Somebody Help!
September 29, 2012 at 4:09 pm
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(September 29, 2012 at 2:50 pm)IUsedToBelieve Wrote: Lately, i have started listening to Christian music again, and i even picked up a bible and read a few pages for the first time in a long time. I feel like i am being sucked back into religion. I was just counting my CD's and i have 186 Christian albums and only 89 non-Christian albums. Any advice will be most welcome! I had this same experience recently. I was listing to Symphony X 'The New Mythology Suite' and I felt like I was being sucked in to believing in Isis, Amun, Horus and Anubis. Good thing I followed it up with 'Achilles Last Stand' by Led Zeppelin, so now I am reassured that Zeus is the one true King of Gods. But seriously. I've heard all sorts of Christian metal, and the lyrics never made me feel compelled to give up everything I know about rational thought, logic, the lack of evidence for the existence of Yahweh or any god, the contradictions in the Bible, etc. etc. You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence. |
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