I know a lot of non-Catholics who listen to Gergorian chants, Schubert’s Ave Maria, the *Mass in B Minor *and lots of other Catholic music, but (alas!) it hasn’t turned them into Catholics. I wouldn’t be too worried about Catholics turning protestant just because they listened to a few protestant songs.
is this from a member of a denomination that does not believe in Purgatory? interesting.
Doesn’t this prove that you jump to fast to conculsions about what the songs mean? Not ever song is going to have a music video to explain the song. Unless an artist comes out and says I believe in the “Rapture or the Catholic Church is the whore of babloyn and all Catholics are going to hell” then You might want to give the artist just a little bit of artisic lead way before you throw them on the “ban list”.
The only “Christian” artist I have thrown onto the “ban” list is Iconoclast, because their very name is an affront to the Faith. Otherwise, it is only individual songs that I place on the “ban” list. Maybe I wrongfully jump to conclusions at times, but as someone who had once fallen for certain subtle Protestant deceptons, I feel that it is of the essence that I’m aware of what I’m listening to.
If a Catholic who is not strong in his faith accepts the Protestant definition of “born again,” then the Catholic teaching on Baptism will APPEAR to be outright false, which could lead to an outright lack of trust in the Catholic Church’s ability to infallibly present the truth, and then make that Catholic willing to listen to Protestant arguments against the Truth, if such arguments could possibly be construed by a wrong , yet understandable, interpretation of Scripture.
Are you saying the Chronicles of Narnia and C.S. Lewis are heretical? Because if you are, I think you are off base with that. There is nothing I have seen which is objectionable in those books.
For the third time on this very thread, I stand corrected. Ironically, however, it was not the words that you put in bold face that convinced me, but the words that I kept up there. My original thought that this was about confessing “directly to God,” the words, “just between you and me,” having the connotation as meaning, “as opposed to through a priest,” is shot down by the fact that the “you” could neither be referring to the Father nor the Son, based on the above words. In light of these lyrics that I previously overlooked, I now think that this song is more of a reference to Matthew 5:23-24 and maybe even indirectly to Mark 11:25. So, I was wrong, again. That’s 3 songs to scratch off of the original list.
I think “idolatrous” is a more appropriate term than heretical.
i think you are referring to "Blessed assurance" and “*Watching and waiting, looking above”? *sorry but i think that would be an example of flying off the handle. you are certainly in your rights to perceive it the way you do, to guard yourself and to encourage others to reach for perfection, but i think the concensus here is that in our current time and place, it is not realistic or practical for the masses to be that cautious with the songs presented so far, if not the majority of CCM.
Why do i have to prove anything? I think you yourself have clearly stated that you have been wrong on a number of Songs so obviously your opinion on what makes a song “questionable” is seriously defective.
And you think this is all going to happen from a song??? A song where people probally don’t even recongize what the words are? I mean how many of us grew up listening to bands and songs and then as you got older realzied what the songs where really saying and are embrassed that you know all the words? Christian music is a good way to help you focus on God and your relationship with him instead of the crud that you hear on pop music channels.
Metaphor is a common literary device in all types of writings, from novels to songs. In the Bible, isn’t Jesus the Lion of Judah? Isn’t he the Lamb of God? Is Jesus literally a Lion or a Lamb? No. It’s a metaphor, a symbol, and clearly in Narnia and this song, the Lion is a metaphor for Jesus. I’m pretty sure no one listening to the song is going to start worshipping lions because they think that’s literally who’s being praised here.
Was the golden calf merely a metaphor for God?
Are you suggesting that secular rap music has NOT destroyed youth culture in America?
So now you want to switch topics? I thought we were talking about which Christian Songs you believe will cause a Catholic to fall away from the church do to their “perceived” anti-catholic doctrine and ideas. Now you want to talk about Secular Rap Music? I guess your one of those people who believes that Grunge or Marilyn Mansion songs can lead you to kill someone. Now if we want to switch the discussion from what songs you believe are heretical and why they are bad for Catholics to the general idea and topic of how much songs influence are lives and our actions then I am game for that. Heck I went to college for a degree in history and changes in social behavior/themes was one of my favorite topics.
Secular rap music has NOT destroyed youth culture, poor parenting and the breakdown of the family has. Rap music is a product of a fatherless society, don’t you think? A well-parented child could listen to violent rap lyrics and not hurt anyone. A poorly parented child could NOT listen to wrap and kill someone. It’s not the music’s fault.