Posted on 12/07/2004 12:06:09 PM PST by LouAvul
The growing clout of America's 100-million evangelical Christians is being heard loud and clear. Just turn on your radio, and you'll notice that a seismic shift in American culture is taking place.
Before, you could tune into different stations, which offered different music and different messages.
But now, as Correspondent Bob Simon reports on 60 Minutes Wednesday, Dec. 8, at 8 p.m. ET/PT,, evangelical Christian music is flowing into mainstream media -- and changing it. In fact, Christian entertainment now brings in $4 billion a year.
Rappers and rockers are making hits and making money while spreading the gospel to national audiences. Christian groups can be heard on secular radio and seen on "The Tonight Show." Earlier this year, the group Third Day even played at the Republican National Convention.
"The fact that there are Christian themes now emerging in rock and that Christians are in rock is just representative of a spiritual desire or a spiritual hunger in our culture," says Cameron Strang, publisher of Relevant Magazine, a religious publication.
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Black Sabbath wrote THAT??? Rubbing my eyes and trying to believe I'm not dreaming.
OMG! A Dreamcatcher???? You are soooo toast.
It's what you believe the "dream catcher" to be.
That must have been one of the 5 commandments on the third stone that Moses dropped... "Thou shalt not listen to dirty lyrics"
***That's the stupidest thing anyone on this thred has said.***
Well I guess you got my point.
Yes. It was on their third album. The original song, "Black Sabbath" is also pretty interesting - the guy is running away, trying to escape the devil, asking God to save him...
But, ya know, they got sucked into the drug lifestyle, and between that and their name (from a Boris Carloff movie, btw) they were 'Satanic'...
Sigh.
That's my point. I look at it and see an object. My friend looks at it and sees some sort of spiritual danger she can't quite put her finger on.
I don't worship it, I don't think it's going to "catch" my "dreams" - I just think it's a thing that looks good in the space. (I love American Indian stuff in general.)
I like Frank Peretti books as much as the next guy, but...
Dirty in the sense that it is formulated to influence you towards the evil. A rock "format" is not, but if something says "well shoot, praise the devil" then why waste my time with it.
If your point was that people can really be judgemental and feel free to cast stones as if they were perfect and without sin, then yes, I got your point.
I actually saw that band and survived. ; )
Agreed.
Me too. LOL
The Great God Entertainment
by A.W.Tozer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1164094/posts
American Indians supposedly came up with the design (or adapted it) with the idea that it would ensnare nightmares, which they viewed as spirits, and prevent them from bothering the person in the place it was hung. They must not take it too seriously -- Indians are pretty private about their serious spiritual practices and don't just parade them to gawkers.
"After Forever" had good lyrics, I esp. like Deliverance's cover of it.
It took a long time to formulate the trinity.
I guess they didn't know their Bibles either.
I havn't heard that cover of it. We used to do a cover of it in a band I was in back in the 80s...
f-religion. Hmm, I wonder how long till this thread gets "sent to church" as well.
Tozer was a powerful, abrasive revivalist, and like a lot of revivalists he had a strange side. He apparently had a liking to get what he called in "raw contact with hell" (in the context of battling the devil, of course).
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