I see no harm in having a secular music forum.
Neither do i see the distinction that christian's should not listen to secular music.
What makes this music secular more so than "christian" music?
That you presume the one to have better intentions than the other?
I choose not to conform to the thought that simply because it's labeled christian by the rest of the world that it is good.
Just because music is labeled christian does not make it good nor edifying.
In actuality I find some christian music to work quite to the contrary.
By being mediocre in writing and composition it hinders me as a christian.
Is my god so mediocre that you would feel that offering up just any pop hit c.rap will suffice? Or that you can rely on certain accepted euphemisms or "christianese" catchphrases to carry your song along and let others infer what they will when the song is not in of itself saying what others proclaim it to say?
Would not god use and work through both the "secular" and "christian" musician?
Are not both forms capable of touching an individual in the same way?
I cannot understand this blind hatred toward musical genres or whatever broad inadequate descriptors.
I would be hestitant to say that everyone on a Christian label is good or just or christ-like and just as hestitant to speak of those who aren't negatively.
Most "christian" labels are owned by the bigger labels like Virgin and such anyway.
So i find it hard to imagine that some Christian artists existance is wholly genuine and for the edification of the church or to seek to save the lost or to just rock out.
which btw i don't see a problem with just wanting to have fun.
It seems to me that by and large some may forget when chastising individuals for listening to this and that music that they forgot that there is nothing wrong with fun.
Something else that's interesting to me is that there are a number of hymns based on old drinking songs.
and now im starting to ramble and be incoherent so i will stop . . .for now