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Yea I get what ya mean.

i listen to only 2 kinds of music christian and country, but i agree, secular music only tears down. the main reason why i listen to that other music, is because i am a music freak (hince the name) and love to listen to the music, beat, tempo of country music and i like to sing along for fun. I don't listen to the rest of it! but i love the texas beat (plus i live in tx, so that helps smile )but i listen to christian music for the meaning, the praise for god in the music, and that is so much more fun to sing along to b/c i have an audiance who loves the music no matter how bad my singing reeks.

secular music can replace what we worship. by listening to christian music, you still honor god by praising him. by listening to the secular music more you praise that more. that is how i view it! i think it is fine to still listen to it, but i think listening to christian music is so much better!

I believe that all secular and Christian Rock/Contemporary Christian Music is wrong. 3nodding PM me if u wish to contridict

The best example I can think of is Matthew West. It's like pop music for Christians. Except less annoying than pop (any secular pop music makes me want to kill myself, BRITTANY SPEARS- YOU CAN'T SING!!!!). Also, Christian Rock is awesome. Christian Rock, Rap, Contemporary, Screamo, and all that other stuff is amazing.

Think of this. There is hot water and cold water. Then there is luke warm water. In the world of God you can be one or the other. If someone is luke warm they are of no use. God would rather you be cold then luke warm. I am not saying you are, I am just giving another analogy.

The more and more this debate goes on the more and more I just have to shake my head and try not to laugh. I listen to secular music every day for the most part in my brothers car...It's his so I have no control over the controls sadly. And I'll listen to bits nad pieces of this music. THen I was in a car with my mom today, she likes country. This guy was singing about how he got so caught up in the music he said I love you to this woman, but didn't mean. It was just a slow song for them to dance to and he said I love you. Musics mess with your emotions. And then in the song he was sining about how he wanted to do all the things to her but he was leaving the next morning for another state! Omg why sing and listen to junk like that? LAMENESS! And yes if the light was yellow I wouldn't go through if it wasn't as safe as the green. Because if anything is questionable and has the potential for me to backslide (be unsafe) I'll stay green. The further a way from red the btter.

And sometimes you are the only bible to some people. You represent the bible to people who don't go to church. Now if you are preaching to them then they hear you listen to the same trash singing about love and anger and negative emotions, what makes them think they can't get into heaven the way they are? I mean you are saved and listening to the same junk they are so why should they change? Would you watch tv that has somone cheat on someone or someone cutting themselves? Would you read a book where the F was every other word? Would you watch rated R movies just because you were allowed to no matter how bad it may be? I mean it's ok right, I'm legal age and I'm not doing stuff, so why is wrong? But how Christian are you appealing to those who don't know you and you are taking part in the same things they watch, read, and listen to daily, what some may even live out. And because you listen to it, read it, and watch it; they make take it as an ok to keep living that way because you are willing to listen to it, read it, and watch it.

So it's not only about your own walk with God, it's how you are representing him to the unsaved.

Ok, for anyone who likes Anberlin but vows not to listen to secular music, I'm going to rattle your cages. It's not just Anberlin, its other artists too, but they're the best examples I can think of. Ok, here it goes. To go to an Anberlin concert and listent through the whole thing, you would here so alot of secular music. Why? Because they go on tour with secular bands like Fall Out Boy and Hawthorne Heights. Same with Underoath. They were on the Warped Tour that had alot of secular bands. Many Christian Artists do that. Also, look at the back of their cds, they thank secular bands when they're thanking the bands. The secular music is another inspiration for many Christian bands. God might inspire the words, but there are more parts of the music. So many bands that are Christian can be traced back to secular bands and music. It's probably secular music that inspires many artists to pick up a guitar or drums. Now Allythea, adressed to you. Be more specific on not being able to hear the words, name bands. You see, I can understand the words of most Christian Rap and Rock. Not all people can though. So like what bands and stuff?

Yet the yellow has nothing to do with red. Yellow is no closer to Red than Green. Yellow is neither affiliated with the Green or the Red. Yet you can be green and yellow. A green painting with nothing more would be quite a boring painting