Secular Music
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Their original heyday was a little before my time, too. I was 14 years old when they first disbanded, but I'd seen live clips of them on various TV shows, and so I knew they had talent. But it was only around 10 years ago or so, when they came together for their appropriately-titled album "10", that I really began to appreciate them personally. I can't say they're my all-time favorites or anything, but I do enjoy some of their efforts.
That music possesses a cathartic characteristic implies its power to purify. The Greek word translated "pure" is katharos sometimes used to describe the cleansing of a wound (catharsis). So it would seem to me that, depending on whether a song is sung in protest or in celebration of wrong, that would determine its power to corrupt.
i doubt i would have liked the band when i was a kid to teen years because i didn't go for the partridge family, the osmonds or the jackson five either when i was young. & we were a musical family, big time. we listened to jazz, r & r, rock, country , classic as in beethoven, mozart, brahms, rachmaninov, tchaikovsky, etc., top 40, blues & so on.
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I had a standard music class in my school years, and the teacher played some classical stuff, but I could never fully devote myself to it. I was always much more interested in the local radio station, which was strange because my legalistic elders often condemned me regarding other forms of entertainment. When I was in my teens I listened to a lot of country music, but I eventually stepped away for a few years because it just started getting depressing. The mid-2000s changed that though, when I quickly became a fan of the trio group Rascal Flatts.
so prevalent is the condemning of rock & other types of music when the condemners ought to really listen to a band first, then make a decision. millions think ALL rock music is bad. they ae incorrect on that. if Jesus were here, he would like a decent number of rock bands & i don't just mean Christian rock.
I've long been convinced that the message is more important, as opposed to the method. If a band is singing about having sex outside of marriage and drinking all the time, I don't think Jesus would approve. But if the songs are about being selfless, or treating others with respect even if you don't always agree with them...maybe our Savior would have a better perspective there.
