Is There a Satanic Element in Rock Music?

[Tuur]

He devoted a lot of music to his Christian faith. I wouldn't call it "vague". Maybe he was scared by what he had done previously.

Don't know about Dylan, but Thomas A. Dorsey, who wrote Take My Hand, Precious Lord, was ashamed of some of the secular songs he wrote that had brought him fame and money.

 

[Tuur]

One of the problems I have with this rhetoric is that the origins of this way of talking goes back to Blues and Jazz, because of the "African" influences.

There's something important that you must know: Black ministers criticized Blues and Jazz because of suggestive lyrics and lyrics that celebrated violence. Thomas A. Dorsey wrote a popular and suggestive song before turning to Christ, the title I can't recall and which he was ashamed of as writing,

 

[Tuur]

Er, I attend a 99% black Church and I'm white. I LOVE the worship music - it would never occur to me to foist 'my' music onto 'them'. WE, my brothers and sisters in Christ, joyously celebrate our Savior as one body.

The CME church somewhat close to us would have choir practice, and if conditions were right, you could hear it all across the farm. Beautiful singing.

One day, the choir started practicing while my father and someone helping him were out working.

"What's that?" the helper said.
"Are you ready?" my father said.
"Ready for what?"
"The judgment," my father said.

Really scared the fellow until my father told him what it was.

 

[Laodicean60]

I don't understand the paranoia about rock and roll music because the ones who write it are just regular people whether some believe in Jesus only God knows. These folks write from their experiences of the time. Niel Young's Ohio was about the Kenn State incident, many songs were anti-war or speak of nuclear war, love relationships, and social issues, and yes, some were anti-God songs but what do you expect from a nonbeliever?

All music can be satanic not only rock and roll if people want to believe that, except church music.

 

[Chrystal-J]

Anyone remember this one? My brother used to play it to scare me as a kid.

 

[RileyG]

There's a satanic element in most anything that's worldly.

I agree.

 

[LW97Nils]

I do not judge a song by the genre it was designed to be part of.

With the gift of discernment I can make this two judgments:
#1 lyrics ain't everything, there is another language within the sound
#2 the instrument itself doesn't set the sound

To put that into more clear terms: It was about black people being bad and therefore "black music" bad, whereas white people good and therefore "white music" good.

It's rooted in blatant racism.

I would beg to differ. Considering rock of itself ain't black music.

 

[dzheremi]

I would beg to differ. Considering rock of itself ain't black music.

I'm sorry, what?

 

[LW97Nils]

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I'm sorry, what?

Either way, I don't think racism was the reason.

 

[LW97Nils]

Here a Bible study, no opinions.

 

[RileyG]

Wasn't the late Tina Turner called "The Queen of Rock and Roll"? She was a Buddhist with a Baptist background.

 

[com7fy8]

There's a huge element of Satanic influence in rock music. If you actually read the lyrics to many songs, you can almost hear the devil speaking.

Well, Jesus says whoever is not for Him is against him . . . and therefore is Satanic, I would understand. So, even the nice acting person who says he or she is fine without Jesus is against Jesus . . . helping people to go to hell because of helping people to think they can live well without Jesus. That can be very conceited, to feel someone is too smart and too good for Jesus, or to judge Jesus as being not good enough for the person!! But Jesus is not conceited, feeling He is too good for us, though He is so superior.

So, conceit is Satanic. And if music is helping to keep attention away from God . . . yes, it is Satanic, whether or not it has some sort of direct mention of Satan or not. And there is a lot else which likewise is designed in culture to keep people's attention away from God.

 

[BNR32FAN]

lol, no there isn’t. There is a very small niche of black metal that actually kind of satanic, and there were a bunch of bands in the 70’s and 80’s who used occultist imagery because they thought it looked cool. That’s it.

Anything that promotes sinful behavior is satanic. It doesn’t have to promote satan worshipping in order to be considered satanic.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Anything that promotes sinful behavior is satanic. It doesn’t have to promote satan worshipping in order to be considered satanic.

If that's your standard, then so many things are "satanic" that the term is basically meaningless.

 

[BNR32FAN]

If that's your standard, then so many things are "satanic" that the term is basically meaningless.

It’s not my standard it’s just the definition of the word my friend.

Satanic-of, relating to, or characteristic of Satan

 

[LW97Nils]

Well, Jesus says whoever is not for Him is against him . . . and therefore is Satanic, I would understand. So, even the nice acting person who says he or she is fine without Jesus is against Jesus . . . helping people to go to hell because of helping people to think they can live well without Jesus. That can be very conceited, to feel someone is too smart and too good for Jesus, or to judge Jesus as being not good enough for the person!! But Jesus is not conceited, feeling He is too good for us, though He is so superior.

So, conceit is Satanic. And if music is helping to keep attention away from God . . . yes, it is Satanic, whether or not it has some sort of direct mention of Satan or not. And there is a lot else which likewise is designed in culture to keep people's attention away from God.

Good point!

 

[iarwain]

There's a Satanic element in anything secular. Look at television and movies, and the values they push. Even Disney.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

Some of the sound waves common in rock music stimulate the flesh to act of its own free will. Rock music is not the only music that makes this happen.

So it's not "satanic" per se, unless you're saying you are the devil.