Christian rock

[Dan Glebitts]

To me christian rock seems a complete waste of time. Rock is supposed to be 'devil spawn' music and 'evil' so combining the two contrasts is the ultimate crazy. Opinions, please.

[andy-hughes]

I'm inclined to agree. I have nothing against rockers who are Christians, but the notion of expressing a faith through a form of music that has as its essence the notions of rebelion and non-conformity seems like a kind of 'If you can't beat 'em, pretend to be like 'em' philosophy, which is not what rock is about.

If you look at the succes rate of Christian rock music, itr does rather bear out my argument - for every Strryper, there are several hundred thousand Black Sabbaths.

[*Zeus*]

Slayer....too many songs which I prob cud not quote on here....fantastic

[Johnmof]

I agree with what's been said, up to a point, but there has been the occasional quality record with a religious theme, My Sweet Lord being an example.

[Dan Glebitts]

religious themes...fantastic. Just the genre of 'christian rock' I dont understand. ah well...

[ScreaminTree]

I couldn't put it any better than andy.

The Rez (nee Resurrection) Band leap to mind as being decent on their day, and Sabbath's "After Forever" establishes an intriguing theological discourse.

[arwenant]

im probably going to annoy people now

i am a Christian who loves rock music anything to do with it.

in my opinion as long as you don't go around singing praises to the devil then there is no reason to be corrupted by it.

there is some music in the rock category which comes from non christian bands yet carry an extremely christian message

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