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Religious people - Which music is pure?
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RE: Religious people - Which music is pure?
June 23, 2015 at 5:06 pm
Christian rock is pure. Pure shit, that is.
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RE: Religious people - Which music is pure?
June 23, 2015 at 5:17 pm
(June 23, 2015 at 5:06 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote: Christian rock is pure. Pure shit, that is.

Yes.  If it is any good at all, it is just called "rock."  U2 has some Christian lyrics, and they are just a rock band.  Bands that suck advertise themselves as "Christian rock," as otherwise no one would buy their worthless recordings.

"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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RE: Religious people - Which music is pure?
June 23, 2015 at 5:33 pm (This post was last modified: June 23, 2015 at 5:34 pm by abaris.)
And not a single theist answered.

But I guess, the Cocksucker Blues by the Stones wouldn't be on the list.
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RE: Religious people - Which music is pure?
June 24, 2015 at 2:42 am (This post was last modified: June 24, 2015 at 2:43 am by Alex K.)
(June 23, 2015 at 5:03 pm)Salacious B. Crumb Wrote:
(June 22, 2015 at 6:35 pm)Little lunch Wrote: My strict Scottish Uncle was the most outspoken about heavy metal music.
He claimed that while he was asleep one night the windows blew open and an angel came in the room and basically got mad at him for allowing heavy metal music in his house.
That's the only crazy story he ever told me.
He was normally quite sane.
And angry.

He sounds sane with a side of crazy. Tongue JK

I remember looking up christian metalcore bands years ago, because I didn’t want the music to have anything denigrating god or christianity (not that I could understand the lyrics anyway), but now, if the music does just that, it’s a bonus.

If Christian Metalcore bands aren't magically better on average than metalcore bands in general, they are an insult to God despite the lyrics.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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RE: Religious people - Which music is pure?
June 24, 2015 at 6:07 am
I've always enjoyed Billy Connolly's bit on Christian rock:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cfWRQPcE8A
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RE: Religious people - Which music is pure?
June 24, 2015 at 7:03 am
Any band or group that pigeon holes themselves into writing about one topic is bound to be fucking horrible.
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:

"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."

For context, this is the previous verse:

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#17
RE: Religious people - Which music is pure?
June 24, 2015 at 8:40 am
The best night of my life (sadly) was when I heard "welcome to the jungle" by Guns N Roses.

I was in the Navy and very home sick.  A guy on the ship invited me to his church.  Long story short, it was a strict baptist cult.  We could only listen to music with out drums or electric guitars.

One night I was invited to stay at the house of a dude who liked to hang out with young sailors *cough cough*.  It freaked me out so instead I got a hotel room across from a strip bar and proceeded to get drunk.  The prettiest girl came out and danced to "welcome to the jungle" and at that point I realized, I was not fit for a baptist cult.
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RE: Religious people - Which music is pure?
June 24, 2015 at 8:42 am
All that I know is impure:

THE FLUTE.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
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RE: Religious people - Which music is pure?
June 24, 2015 at 11:26 am (This post was last modified: June 24, 2015 at 11:30 am by Alex K.)
I'd say anything but natural Pythagorean temperament, which uses the simple rational frequency ratios, is by definition unnatural. So I'd argue that any music in meantone, Werckmeister or equal temperament is obviously against nature, and by extension, against God. I think this means that almost all music of the past 400 years is an abomination. Sorry guys. If you own a natural trumpet, feel free to play it though.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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RE: Religious people - Which music is pure?
June 24, 2015 at 11:29 am
It doesn't get much purer than....




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