Religious Misconceptions About Mainstream Music = IgnorantSo, what is my beef with Religious Misconceptions About Mainstream Music?It's ignorance. Now I don't want you to think that this is a biased opinion, it's not. I'm a Christian and God is the biggest part of my life. With that being said, I am very often surrounded by other Christian people, and I find that many of them very often misconstrue the meaning of certain songs, and label them as "Bad" music, because it seems to be promoting things like Violence, Hate, and Sex.
Now I believe that you shouldn't use your music to promote these things. (Sex, Violence, and Hate) But here's the thing: I find that we start labeling the Artists that are "Anti-Hate/Violence/Sex" as "Immoral" music, just because they might "sound bad". If you don't quite get what I'm saying, let me give you a perfect example. A Perfect Example Of Ignorance You would find that us religious people have labeled the band "System of a Down" as "bad"" music. But why? System of a Down supports many of the views that Christians have, such as these Anti-Hate/Lies/Mindless Sex/etc agendas, yet we shun them. Why do we shun them? We label these bands, that support good causes, as bad, simply because they might have some swearing. My question is, how does something like swearing, or using satire, make their cause any different from mine? It doesn't, and that is the Ignorance I am talking about. Take a look at the lyrics for "Violent Pornography" by SOAD.
Now if you showed that to most religious people, they would label that as immoral music.
So what is the message of this song? The message of "Violent Pornography" is that the media pollutes our mind with garbage like Violence and Sex. WAIT A SECOND! That sounds like the same type of message I might hear at church! But just because it "Sounds Bad and has swearing", it is labeled as music that will pollute you. And that is my beef with Ignorant Religious Opinions on Mainstream Music. (Just to make this clear, when I talk about sex, I'm talking about sleeping around and all that Jizz. Sex in a marriage is Genius, and it's a lot more enjoyable to share such an important thing with someone you are going to spend your life with)
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