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eatenbylocusts

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strengthinweakness said:
Happy Birthday to your son! I hear you, eatenbylocusts! In a bit of a different way, I relate-- I don't understand how I went from being a teenage punk rocker in the Deep South to a thirty-something, politically conservative (to a degree) Christian who feels deeply alienated from so much of what I see and hear in alternative youth culture today! Some of it is due to age and experience, some of it is undoubtedly the grace of God. Still, sometimes I think of who I was at nineteen, and then I compare that person to who I am now, and I just think, "Wow... I have really changed!" It's all for the better though (especially being brought from spiritual death to life! :bow: ), and I actually still like a lot of offbeat, non-mainstream music! My current faves are the Walkmen, Arcade Fire, and the Hold Steady. My parents would have hated any one of them! :D

Me too. I only dyed my hair funny colors once when I went to a DEVO concert, but my christianity didn't play a part in any of the music I chose to listen to. I was 21 when I started submitting my life to God.
 
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eatenbylocusts said:
Me too. I only dyed my hair funny colors once when I went to a DEVO concert, but my christianity didn't play a part in any of the music I chose to listen to. I was 21 when I started submitting my life to God.

I still like DEVO! :D Christianity definitely plays a decisive role in the music that I choose to listen to, but I don't rule an artist or a band out if they aren't officially in the "Christian music market." For me, it has more to do with whether the lyrics go directly against my Christian convictions. I can't and won't listen to most "gangsta" rap, because the lyrics usually glorify gratuitous violence and are terribly degrading to women (I also don't care for most of the songs musically, but that's another issue). With certain modern alternative groups like the Arcade Fire or the Hold Steady, though, nothing in their songs (at least the ones I have heard) goes against my Christian convictions, and many of their songs even have good messages, so I don't feel a conviction about listening to them, as far as it being sinful or otherwise harmful to my walk with God.
 
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