jphelmet
Refugee
The people who condem a "Christian band" for not glorifying God in all their songs are idiots. The one guy's comment about the JPM's was hilarious and I like the other guy's comment about not needing anymore Christians singing about Christian things but singing about all kinds of things. "Christian Rock" comes of as robotic and fake. A band of Chrsitians can make good music.
I fight this battle all the time with Christian friends. I have grown up in the church, and been around christian music my entire life. I can count the "christian" cd's i own on one hand. To wrap it up into a neat little christian cliche, "all truth is God's truth." it doesn't have to be a straight from the bible song, to be christian. I find lots of songs that have nothing to do with blatant spiritual themes, by many different artists (most who are not Christian) to be the music that I see God in more than many others. Or maybe its I just see almost all songs as having a spiritual message.
I find Radiohead's "fitter happier" interlude, to be like the prophet Isaiah talking directly to this generation. Or the song "inside of love" by nada surf to be the longing for what we were created for. Or Tool's "Wings for Marie" to be the questioning of suffering, and to be quite moving to me. I am probably greatly in the minority here, but God is talking to me through all kinds of music and most of its not "christian".