Re: One more time on this Christian Art thing

[Joshua Neds-Fox <jnedsfox at moody_edu>]

>But Carman's worst effort is very poor, indeed, and Marilyn Manson, who
>produces a lot of bad stuff, may produce the world's best song someday. 
>Why do we draw these lines?  If Carman does a great song, I will appluad.
> If Manson does a great song, I will appluad.  If either one of 'em does
>poor work, I'm gonna call 'em out.  

Here's where I take issue with this whole line.  If Carman puts out some
musical debris, I'm not going to listen, because I like to *enjoy* my
music, not cringe at it.  But let's say Mr. Manson writes the world's best
song -- brilliantly structured, with a killer hook, and satisfying to the
musical ear -- but it's thematically depraved.  I'm not going to listen to
that, either.  Stand up for what you believe in.  Don't applaud the Pretty
Hate Machine because it's pretty?!  It's still a hate machine.

>Aye.  And my first cass-ette tape was Petra.  But that was milk.  It's
>time for solid food, and that often comes from not-Christian art . . . 

The world's message is deceitful and a lie.  That's not solid food-- it's
poison.  I loved XTC so much because they fed what is worldly in me-- even
after I came to know Christ I lovingly played "Dear God" on my Epiphone
because I'd grown deaf to the lyrics.  Beautiful art can be created by
those who don't know Christ-- God is reflected in the world He made-- but I
can't trumpet the achievements of those who would deny God.  What purpose
does that music serve?  It's beauty is a lure and it's destructive nature
is it's true purpose-- whether or not the artist is conscious of it.  

While I'm at it, I have to disagree with Megan on the value-- entertainment
or otherwise-- of certain movies that are created in a moral vaccuum.  If
the world tells me to keep my eyes wide shut, and I do it, am I enlightened
or am I a fool?  In other words, just because Stanley Kubrick was
undoubtedly an artist doesn't mean he wasn't a liar.

Just a little rhetoric for the mix--

jnf

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References:

• One more time on this Christian Art thing
• From: Alfred B Johnson <hoopyfrood at juno_com>

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