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I listened to a lot of Christian music in my younger years. Stryper, Lighbearer, The Toerags, Vengeance etc etc. At the time I was involved in the church scene and the music seemed quite normal to me.
I am not involved with the church scene any more, for my own reasons, and from the outside it certainly does look a lot different. I've never agreed with the whole 'round the sinners up and convince them that our way is the best' philosphy, and Christian music reeks of those tones.
Not many secular bands write songs which are all about the same thing, because that gets boring. A Chrisian album is 11-12 songs of 'outreach' which takes away from the pure muisical talent. I find it hard to relax and get into the feel of the music when I am at the same time being told I am living my life the wrong way and I should be doing it differently.
So to sum up, I don't dislike Christian music because of any cool factor, I dislike it because Christian artists seem to have one track minds and ruin good music by constantly preaching to me. It makes me uncomfortable.
Imagine an album full of some other kind of advertising... That wouldn't be enjoyable either!
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