can a christian listen to electronica music?

[Mattsanity]

cause electronica music is associated with illegal drugs, but I don't do drugs anymore. can a christian listen to house, trance, techno etc?

 

[Qyöt27]

It's just a category of music. Rock is 'associated' with sex & drugs too.

I don't really care much for most rave-type music (I prefer Alternative Dance and Industrial as far as electronic music goes), but I don't see the problem. If you link it too strongly to drugs, then maybe it would be a good idea to stay away at least until you don't make such heavy connections. But not everyone would face that same temptation.

 

[NiobiumTragedy]

Any music you listen to can have some connection to this, that, or the other thing. What matters is how it effects you. Do you have the desire to do drugs when you listen to it, or is it just something you enjoy? I love EBM music, but it doesn't make me want to do stupid things. It's just something I enjoy to listen to. Nothing wrong with that.

 

[stonetoflesh]

Yes.

 

[Mankin]

All forms of music are associated with some form of drugs and/or booze.

It's fine to listen to it as long as you don't start doing drugs yourself.

 

[Truffle]

Yes and I can also listen to anything I choose -it's up to me to make the choice.

 

[Mattsanity]

Ive decided to not listen to electronic music, or any other secular music.

I feel a true christian should only listen to christian music. I say that cause my older peers who gave their life to christ only listen to christian music, so thats my sentiment.

 

[PhilosophicalBluster]

Ive decided to not listen to electronic music, or any other secular music.

I feel a true christian should only listen to christian music. I say that cause my older peers who gave their life to christ only listen to christian music, so thats my sentiment.

But why?

 

[Sphinx777]

Ive decided to not listen to electronic music, or any other secular music.

I feel a true christian should only listen to christian music. I say that cause my older peers who gave their life to christ only listen to christian music, so thats my sentiment.​

Have you considered listening only to instrumental music, without vocals or lyrics?

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[NiobiumTragedy]

Ive decided to not listen to electronic music, or any other secular music.

I feel a true christian should only listen to christian music. I say that cause my older peers who gave their life to christ only listen to christian music, so thats my sentiment.

Personally, I find that mentality arrogant, but we all have our own opinions, I suppose. Yet you give no reasoning or back up your statement in any way other than "I think it's bad".

 

[kerplin]

As long as it doesn't lead you to do drugs it's fine. Any type of music can ultimately be linked to something harmful for certain people. It's just another genre, and if it doesn't effect your faith, or cause you to fall into harmful actions, then it doesn't matter what you choose to listen to.

 

[NiobiumTragedy]

I never understood how a type of music could be so associated with making you do something as Christians seem to think electronica makes you do drugs. It's just music. There is no subliminal message saying "SMOKE CRACK" or "TAKE PILLS" within the music.

 

[pgp_protector]

Just listened to some, nothing happened.

 

[Blackknight]

I love trance and ambient trance. Shpongle is simply amazing.

 

[Qyöt27]

I never understood how a type of music could be so associated with making you do something as Christians seem to think electronica makes you do drugs. It's just music. There is no subliminal message saying "SMOKE CRACK" or "TAKE PILLS" within the music.

Agreed on the irrationality of it, but it's not totally baseless in the minds of those claiming it. It's just really tenable connections and shaky logic that certain church bubbles have maintained because of personal distaste, and imprinted on those that blindly take them at their words.

It's basically the concept of an acid flashback or falling off the wagon taken to a completely implausible extreme. Couple that with a hyperspiritualized worldview steeped in paranoia about demons and a fundamental distrust of scientific and psychological research to the contrary (in reference to things like subliminal messages and backmasking), and the situation is only made worse.

Basically, former drug abuser strongly recalls memories of his habit when he hears the music he listened to while getting stoned/shooting up/tripping out/whatever. He is troubled by this and interprets it as demons attached to the music (a concept not supported by Scripture whatsoever), wanting a scapegoat instead of acknowledging that it's simply an association in his own mind. Since it's demons - an external force - doing it, the music therefore is intrinsically capable of making regular people who never had such a habit think about drugs or want to take them. It's a symphony of theological and psychological errors that ultimately ends up looking like 1x1 starting to equal 5.

Sadly enough, the example in the former paragraph is very close to actual threads that have popped up in this section before about how secular or rock/metal music (even of the Christian sort) is intimately controlled by Satan and operates as a gateway to Hell. And this wasn't simply parroting the paranoid claims of websites that take these left-field stances - these were coming from the personal testimonies of the people posting them. Whether that was true or not doesn't make much of a difference because the fact they were conflating their own problems onto the music itself and engaging in such claims is the whole crux of the issue - a crux that is as stable as a house built on sand during an earthquake.

 

[Antigone]

Just listened to some, nothing happened.

Apart from the Pink elephants, of course. That and my toaster turning into Basement Cat.

I love trance and ambient trance. Shpongle is simply amazing.

Have you tried Trentemoller? Very soothing. Not really my thing, but every now and then I love me some Trentemoller.

 

[PattyHarden]

Ive decided to not listen to electronic music, or any other secular music.

I feel a true christian should only listen to christian music. I say that cause my older peers who gave their life to christ only listen to christian music, so thats my sentiment.

Hmmm for some reason I feel like I agree with you. I used to love trance music for many years I stopped listening to all secular music ~4 years ago. I put one of my old CDs of electronic music for my toddler to dance to the other day and for some reason I began to feel like something was not right in my spirit . Most of the music I listened to I might add have little to no lyrics so one could wonder what is it about this kind of music So I suppose certain Christians are more convicted about these sort of matters than others.