I’m sorry, I love the song “Blessed Assurance” by Fanny Crosby for its lyrics & spiritual truths. I am a born again Christian, but I can’t stand black divas like CeCe Winans (or any divas, male or female), warbling out her self-gloriying version of the song. Kind of like when they sing the National Anthem and inject all sorts of warbles & notes that were never there. Just a way to hide the fact that they really don’t have such great voices after all. Just my opinion is all.... I have no beef against you or your comments at all.
At one time there were even laws about faithful renditions of “The Star Spangled Banner” in places like Massachusetts. A band arranger then got in trouble because of a flatted chord. I think that kind of policy is ridiculous, and if you dislike what you hear from an artist the answer is simply do not patronize him or her. You have not proved that such things are “self glorifying” (puhleeze! we are talking about style, not about content). But for a person with your sense of judgmentalism you would be at the most peace simply to watch what you feel to be reliably “normal.” No sense putting yourself in situations where you are tempted to be vexed. Maybe that’s even FR.