Music

This is an attempt at opening up more… Classical music has its pagan stories, but for the most part its Christian music. However, Classical music + words = Opera. You have to change the whole word. This stuff is rarely Christian. I know “New Age” is a pagan religion, but its music category (having no words) is innocent. Just like pagan Classical music, if you don’t know the story, the sounds are just music. This is proven in music that’s words are in a language you don’t know. At that point, it’s just music. New Age music came out of Classical music.
Now we have Ambient music. This almost never has words and when it does they rarely form a sentence. Being secular, it’s neither Christian or pagan. The Ambient genre came out of New Age music. I consider it innocent as well.
With the obvious exception of Opera, these styles of music are seen as mood music instead of message music. Due to my current personal belief that the source of all the responses to the questions in message music is spiritual in nature, I have a hard time listening to secular, message music. From protest songs that are heavy on message (albeit with a tendency to be annoying) to mere feel good, party songs that are light on message, the answer to their questions ring out in my head, “God, try God, ever heard of God?”
This leaves me being one that when I’m not listening to a praise song (which isn’t all that much), I’m listening to mood music.
On a personal note I’m a huge fan of Ambient music. It’s what I listen to most the time. I was a Classical fan, and then New Age came out. I was a New Age fan then Ambient came out. I thought what sounded better than Classical was New Age and now I believe what sounds better than New Age is Ambient. I’m well aware some would consider this musical heresy to say so, but I think you can be a huge fan of these styles with out knowing much about them. This achieves the very effortlessness that makes most mood music so appealing.
Classical: Christian
New Age: Pagan
Ambient: Secular
I’ve quit listening to secular message music (risking my being out of date with the language of my times) because it’s lack of spiritual common sense annoyed me. I’ve started listening to secular mood music, though. How ironic!!! Buy bonds & get your kids on centering prayer TODAY! :)