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But does it give the kind of sacred, quiet and prayerful atmosphere that belongs in church? Or is it more conducive to jumping around and emotionalism?

Who jumps more than someone conducting Handel's Messiah? Is there no emotionalism in a chant or a psalm?

Empty emotionalism isn't measured by the tempo, volume, or style - it's measured in how 'feelings' get substituted for true spiritual contemplation and worship.

Meanwhile, "rock" is a pretty broad term. Are you talking about ballads, or heavy-metal-fuzz-clash guitar?

[Claud]

Who jumps more than someone conducting Handel's Messiah? Is there no emotionalism in a chant or a psalm?

No, there's definitely emotion there! I can't listen to Palestrina's Sicut Cervus without getting swept into another world. But it's a different sort of emotional I guess. More quiet...more still..less enervating.

I am talking about the whole of the rock genre...from Chuck Berry to whatever passes for it nowadays LOL.

Sometimes secular music hits on something I guess....Greensleeves back in its day was turned into a beautiful Christmas carol (What Child is This). But by and large ends of the sacred and secular are different.