Well geez, that’s because it should be common sense that Led Zeppelin is an automatic ticket to hell, while Mozart’s masonic imagery is perfectly acceptable!
I hope you realize that Jimmy Page was a Satanist. He was an avid follower of Aleister Crowley (who was well known for his Satanism). Now I’m not dissing on Zep, but it’s not impossible for people’s private lives to factor into their music.
Why yes I do know that. However, I believe that truth (just parts, not the whole truth) can come from almost anywhere (except the occult and Satanism). For example, one of my favorite quotes of all time is from Meher Baba and it basically sums up my attitude on drugs: “For the sincere seeker after truth, experimentation with drugs may well open doors, but continued use will lead to madness, death, and insanity.” It basically means that drugs can inspire you, but they will kill you if you continue to use them.Jimmy Page was involved in the occult, not satanism. I know, not a whole lot better, but there is a diference (why would a satanist even agree to perform “In My Time of Dying”?). By the way, I’m assuming your name is a reference to The Who? I suppose you know that Pete Townshend believes Meher Baba was the Avatar.
I know. Sometimes I feel like I would appreciate it more if I had an advanced degree in math.Well, behind seemingly illogical beats, there usually is some sort of pattern to how many beats are in a measure or a group of measures. Sometimes it’s fun to just sit around and count along to progressive rock songs.
Sorry, but what Jimmy Paige, Garth Brooks, Louis Armstrong or Mozart does / did in their non-musical world has no influence on me. I listen to them play - I don’t hang out or associate with them. In most cases, it wouldn’t even be possible to do so since mostly who I listen to have been dead longer than I have been alive.
Not necessarily on the KISS song. Maybe they aren’t advocating sin! Let’s take a look at the lyrics here.
But was he really a Satanist? He did have an interest in Crowley, yes. But he never actually called himself a follower, nor was initiated into Crowley’s group. He wasn’t actually a Satanist.
An excellent point! But while the lyrics can be interpreted that way, I don’t think Kiss meant them to be Christian at all (there is the .01% chance however).
But is their music influencing you? I used to be really into Slayer and that actually took a lot of anger I had inside me and made it worse. Subconciously, I turned away from God, and was, for all intents and purposes, no longer a Christian (went to church but never acted like it). Am I saying that Slayer is to blame for that? No, there were much bigger contributors. But it did have an effect.
Of course music influences / impacts everyone in various ways. Studies show benefits of learning instruments for children, in stroke patients, hence the whole world of Music Therapy and it’s benefits on people. Music generally impacts people on an emotional level as well as cognitive.
I love this example. Some people would be really turned off by the type of music Skillet plays, because it’s rock/metal, but they use it to spread the Good News just as much as any preacher.There’s this one band that I enjoy listening (and headbanging) to. They’re called Skillet and they sing rock/heavy metal, but the lyrics are really meaningful.
Once the leader of Skillet, John Cooper, had just finished a concert and most of the people had gone home. They were cleaning up when John noticed this guy watching him. The guy was big and dressed totally in black and he was just staring at John, making him uneasy. Finally the guy walks up to John and to John’s surprise, he’s got tears in his eyes. He starts telling John about his life and how he felt like this one song that John had sung was for him. The song is called “Last Night” and it’s about this girl who hates her life and wants to commit suicide. Then the chorus basically tells her that if she gives God one chance, He’ll make it the last night she’ll ever spend alone. The guy wasn’t a Christian. He had just gone to the concert because of the style of music. But he and John ended up hugging and crying and John was praying for him.
I guess my point is, maybe rock has been used to endorse Satan. But Christ has taken something bad and changed it into something good. If Christ can use this music to bring more people to Him, then it needs to be encouraged, not condemned.
) manner. How you use the music makes it pleasing to God or not.Yes, it is. Still, we should pray for the main author of the site, who is in poor health.
I’d be shocked too, especially since it isn’t true.
One of the biggest things I’ve hated about fundamentalists is that they’re always reinforcing the negative stereotypes of religion. Being anti-rock music happens to be one of them. I don’t like someone (be they do it intentionally or not) perpetuating the lie that if you value religion, you instantly become some prude who screams “Rock music is of the deviiil!!”. =_=