Posted on 06/02/2010 7:43:36 PM PDT by The Ignorant Fisherman
Wherever one goes today multitudes of teens and young children can be seen avidly imitating and idolizing the vast array of musicians and their decadent chic culture and lifestyle. Television, satellite radio, iPods and the internet have revolutionized and intensified the accessibility to this hypnotic, godless spirit (2 Cor. 4:3-4; Eph. 2:1-2). America’s youth in particular are being intoxicated and brainwashed at an exponential rate with Lucifer’s subtle and godless message of “Do as Thou wilt.”
What is even more tragic is the majority of “out to lunch” parents who are totally oblivious and gullible about the damnable influence this culture and its demonic propaganda has over their children. These are messages of godlessness, anti-authority, licentiousness and promiscuity, immorality, vice, drug use, suicide, anarchy, violence, rape, “godless good,” delusional aspirations and fallen human hopes apart from the Creator in righteousness. These OTL parents are just as delusional and are products themselves of the same brainwashing and narcissistic tactics used by the Devil in the decadent and subjective 60’s music culture.
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don’t forget...these ‘parents’ now grew up in an age not far removed from the crap passing as music and culture now for THEIR kids. these are not ward and june and ozzie an harriet type ‘parents’. different time for sure. these kids now, on a whole, do not have a fighting chance whatsoever these days.
Same thing was said 60 years ago... Elvis was the devil incarnate.
The blame goes entirely on the parents. Scripture teaches us to instruct our children to obey God’s will. The influence of godless “art” today is no different than it was at any other age. It is still up to us to teach our children God’s Word.
Not all metal music is bad. You should check out song sheets for Iron Maiden, Keldian, Blind Guardian...
One of my main criticism of today’s music is that you cannot understand the lyrics. I ask, “What are they singing about?” They answer, “Who cares.” I go onto the internet to get the lyrics, and I find out that the lyrics are so lame that I would place them as what I call Jack and Jill mentality. Today’s music is all flash and no bang.
VERY well said. to bad that those thoughts have faded with the last, God knows how many, generations. but parents now, or for a long time, are not like the greatest generation’s parents. the kids now....I hurt for them, I really do.
Absolutely. What’s needed is a government bureaucracy to screen our music to make sure it’s good for us.
I'd rather not exist than not be able to listen to what I love.
Times have changed,
And we’ve often rewound the clock,
Since the Puritans got a shock,
When they landed on Plymouth Rock.
If today,
Any shock they should try to stem,
‘Stead of landing on Plymouth Rock,
Plymouth Rock would land on them.
In olden days a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking,
But now, God knows,
Anything Goes.
Good authors too who once knew better words,
Now only use four letter words
Writing prose, Anything Goes.
The world has gone mad today
And good’s bad today,
And black’s white today,
And day’s night today,
When most guys today
That women prize today
Are just silly gigolos
And though I’m not a great romancer
I know that I’m bound to answer
When you propose,
Anything goes
....
I can't speak for other children, but for my 18 month old and my -3 month old, change begins in our home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4OZndaSH0g
Elvis... IMO, was more than just an artist. He was a true patriot. I remember my mom telling me about how when he was drafted, the Army offered him special treatment but he refused it. He wanted to be treated just like anyone else who was called to serve our country. THAT is cool.
I’m glad to hear that. my prayers are with you. raising children is the toughest job on earth.....always has been but especially now in this Godless society. people compare Elvis and the rap crap going around now.....no comparison! now if you compare Elvis to now....there was a tremendous much more uproar over Elvis, then. he was the first ‘devil’ musician. now, well heck, ANYTHING goes without ‘parents’ so much as raising an eyebrow. raping women, killing policemen etc. is glorified in ‘music’ AND ate up by the kids. just hard to fathom for this old guy.
Placemark.
The music industry is merely A REFLECTION of the condition of our culture not the cause.
Everything we see is a reflection of something: photons flying through the air as certain wavelengths bounce off while others are absorbed into every bit of material around us.
Everything we say is a reflection of something: our background, our experiences, our thoughts, our feelings.
Everything we do is a reflection of something: the sum total of our likes and dislikes, the culmination of our interests and pursuits, the manifestation of actions both conscious and hidden.
Everything you’ll hear is a Reflection of Something.
And it was Cole Porter before him.
That Beethoven will ruin our youth (said several hundred years ago :>)
Ugg no like way man in next cave over bang rocks together
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