Actions speak louder that words.

Now I’m not going to claim that every CCB (Contemporary, Christian, Band) it just out to make money and be famous, I don’t believe they are, but they don’t seem to be any different then the secular bands. The only difference is there lyrics, thats about it.

I see it like this: say you were telling someone to go get some ice cream, only you did so using the same tone of voice as a enraged person set on smashing his key board because he lost some game! Do you think that would be effective? How do you think the person would react to your message? I believe that this is essentially what CCBs are doing, they have the right message (some/most of them), but they are sending it through the wrong carrier.

C@RL

PS. Oh and I liked the comic, I thought is was funny, and yet enlightening/thought provoking.

I don’t listen to music to hear what I want to hear, I listen to get what I can out of a piece of art. If you get a “feeling” from a song without even hearing it all the way through, chances are you are in the group of people that believe Led Zeppelin IV was created by Satan because Stairway to Heaven sounds creepy if you play it backwards at a certain speed. Sometimes people write music just to express themselves and connect with an audience, rarely with bad intent. It’s the people that have to judge the Beatles and Led Zeppelin and CCR and Black Sabbath because the music seems threatening, that are missing out. Black Sabbath with Ozzy Osbourne seems to be particularly frightening, even when all the man sings about is love and peace while ridding the world of hate, greed, and corruption. John Lennon says one wildly misinterpreted statement in the mid-60’s and the Beatles end up having to flee a country at gunpoint because everyone jumped to unreasonable conclusions. Led Zeppelin was called Satanic because Jimmy Page is weird and Robert Plant’s octive range can be interpreted as anything when played backwards. CCR somehow still draws anger for “Fortunate Son,” decades after the Vietnam War wasted thousands of American lives.

If people just listened to the music and thought about what they heard without prejudgement, there wouldn’t be a market for “Christian Bands,” nor any conflict over just how Christian a band needs to be to be called “Christian,” Christians could simply be artists that don’t have to emulate other bands to gain acceptance.