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I can’t even stand going to Church, let alone liking Christian music.

This is an area where I can't let my biases sway me. I love music so much...and in the end, good music is good music, regardless of its origin. The power to conjure up inspiring or tragic (and beautiful) emotion through song is not exclusive to any creed.

I despise some Christian music but there are some gospel songs when performed by Little Richard and a few others just simply rock, they get me singing along tapping my feet, even boogying around my kitchen while I cook. Good music is good music.

Many of the christian influenced works from the middle ages are, of course, timeless. However, much of the christian pop and rock of today is simply a faded carbon copy of its already mediocre (at best) source material.

I like music. Christian or not.

Christian music is about all I listened to for 20ish years. Giving up my faith was very hard for me, and I can't listen to Christian music without getting sad or even crying at times. Too many painful memories.

I've had to spend a lot of time this year finding new music to listen to. P.S. I'm always open to suggestions, as long as it isn't Country.

PPS: Have you realized that "Oceans" is crying out to God to make your life harder so that you can trust him better? Pretty messed up, IMHO, and I thought that even when I was still a Christain.

I don't go out of my way to listen to Christian music, but if it were to happen to come on the radio and has good metal feel without an overtly "Christian" (God or Jesus every other word) element, then yeah. Hell, I might sing along.

Not anymore. It just reminds of a day of frustration and uneasiness. I do like amazing Grace on the bagpipes. I kind of cried the first time I heard it in 72. It touched me.

I don't care for the majority of the modern stuff, but I like the classics: Bach, Handel, the Gregorian Chants, and a lot of the traditional hymns. Martin Luther may have been an anti-Semitic bag of crap who hated the common people, but his "A Mighty Fortress is Our God" is a stirring song. The modern pop Christian stuff seems to be trying too hard to fit in, but a lot of black Pentecostal music is enjoyable. It makes me want to dance.

One of my favorite memories of home is the sound of bagpipes playing Amazing Grace wafting up through the Niagara Gorge. It would be kaw that Amazing Grace never be sung (totally ruins it) and must only be played on bagpipes...as intended!????

I of course, impart no religious significance to the song.

If I must listen to it, I prefer instrumental versions only.

I really can't vote on this lol. I apparently like a lot of songs from christian rock bands, but since my experience with them was always of songs that could be interpreted as...well, non-delusional love, I didnt even know some of them were. Was a little disappointed with some of them xD

Does Christmas music count?

No...it's all terrible

I can't stand the Pat Boone sort of crap, but Gospel singing can be fantastic despite the nonsense that they are singing about. This is Billy Connolys opinion on Christian Rock.

There is a G-rated comedian (honest) who does a routine about religious music. Here's a link. He is funny. (Mike Birbiglio)

I used to like gospel music but now it just makes me embarrassed that black americans have such short memories.

Most Christians I know don't even like Christian music. Unless we're talking about classical music commissioned by the church, but in terms of most contemporary music it's like nails on a chalkboard to me.

There’s a compilation I picked up several years ago called “Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal.” I don’t care what it’s about. It’s just great music.

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This is one that needs more than an either/or. Most classical music was originally religious music. I grew up on old time gospel music at Christmas. I still love to hear some of them. They remind them of my youth and my father.

The only exception from my personal dislike of xtian music is the sound track for "jesus christ superstar" movie I saw as a kid. My parents had the album and so I find myself humming or whistleing it too often.

The devil has better music \m/

I listen to Christain music. It's like an addiction to me lol. I always listen to peace fm in my car and they always have cool Christain music on play. I don't believe the lyrics but the melodies and beats are mesmerizing, and sometimes the lyrics can be comforting

Christian gospel music is the first of many things to make me realize that I don't fit in with any group who would listen to it. I think I was 6 or 7 when it really started bothering me, being so conceited and smarmy about how only they were good and everyone else was bad. It makes me sick to think about.

I don't mind some Christmas music.