RE: Religious people - Which music is pure?
June 25, 2015 at 6:35 am
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2015 at 6:35 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(June 24, 2015 at 10:49 pm)Godschild Wrote: Really, then why are they so often recognized by the secular world of music,[?][...]
They're not. You obviously don't understand what "often" means. You gave one example of a virtually unknown niche guitarist (yup - I'll bet you every single person, who read that post had to google him - and you can't even spell his name correctly), who may be technically good, but has no record of any music that's widely known. And where are all those non-christian-rock artists citing him as inspiration/influence?
Most of the nonsense about him on the web was clearly fabricated - like the stories about Hendrix calling him "the best guitarist in the world", which he himself admits are not true. So what if he's a mate of Paul McCartney - obviously he's not good enough to have played on any of McCartney's albums. Or albums of any other artists recognizable without googling.
It should be easy to list a number of christian rock musician, who influenced mainstream rock music - if that actually happened "often". Sure - there are plenty of musicians who are also christians, or otherwise religious, but they keep that to themselves, because everybody knows, that if the word "christian" comes before "rock" - then it's most likely to be proselytizing crap, trying to indoctrinate young people, by mimicking their culture. And sure - there have been very few musician who managed to break from CR into mainstream, but notice how they all stopped bringing attention to the "christian" aspect of their music as soon as that happened. Also - most of them were still crap - like Creed.
As for you telling me "what's good" (either in the context of ethics or aesthetics):
again
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
