Rock And Roll Music, A The Tool Of Satan?
66The King Of Rock And Roll
Ozzie Osborn
Rock and Roll
Someone mentioned somewhere that they think Rock and Roll Music is the tool of Satan to get young people to join cults and to go to the Devil and eventually to hell.
I don't think that is a true statement. They used examples such as Ozzie Osborn and him claiming that he is "The Dark Lord". Well I have to question that in itself because if one calls himself Jesus and advertises so, does that make that person really Jesus? I know a Cult Leader who does think so and that is Charles Manson. You can read about Cults and how they teach and ensnare you on my hub What Are Cults.
Not all Rock and Roll lyrics are geared to "taking young souls".. I first heard of that phrase when Elvis came on the scene. Some things never change!
Do they also group all the Christian Rock and Roll Music in their prejudiced groups too. There are many of those too.
There are a few othr video's below that are about Jesus and they are Rock and Roll. Tkae a listen to them if you will. If I can find the lyrics I will post them here as well for those who do not have fast internet service or would like to just read what the song says for themselves.
Then you have the famous hteater production in the 70's, Jesus Christ Superstar. I will put some of those video's down below too for your listening pleasure.
Not one of these video's and songs tell about going to hell or even mention anything of the sort. Throwing all music into one category and saying that the whole lot is Satanic, is just rediculous and a Fear Mechanism to keep people into these "cults"
Red Hot Chile Peppers
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Rock 'N' Roll Forever: Ed Sullivan's Greatest Hits
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One For The Money - The Birth Of Rock 'n' Roll
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Red Hot Chile Peppers -- A Rock and Roll Band
Some who prejudge bands of Rock and Roll will think this is about something sinister, but if they really sit down and listen to the music and lyrics they will find it much different. This goes to say that not ALL and a majority of it is not Satan Worshipping.
What I got - Lyrics
What I've got you've got to give it to your mamma What I've got you've got to give it to your pappa What I've got you've got to give it to your daughter You do a little dance and then you drink a little water What I've got you've got to get it put it in you What I've got you've got to get it put it in you What I've got you've got to get it put it in you Reeling with the feeling don't stop continue Realize I don't want to be a miser Confide w/sly you'll be the wiser Young blood is the lovin' upriser How come everybody wanna keep it like the kaiser [Chorus] Give it away give it away give it away give it away now Give it away give it away give it away give it away now Give it away give it away give it away give it away now I can't tell if I'm a kingpin or a pauper Greedy little people in a sea of distress Keep your more to receive your less Unimpressed by material excess Love is free love me say hell yes I'm a low brow but I rock a little know how No time for the piggies or the hoosegow Get smart get down with the pow wow Never been a better time than right now Bob Marley poet and a prophet Bob Marley taught me how to off it Bob Marley walkin' like he talk it Goodness me can't you see I'm gonna cough it [Chorus] Lucky me swimmin' in my ability Dancin' down on life with agility Come and drink it up from my fertility Blessed with a bucket of lucky mobility My mom I love her 'cause she love me Long gone are the times when she scrub me Feelin' good my brother gonna hug me Drink my juice young love chug-a-lug me There's a river born to be a giver Keep you warm won't let you shiver His heart is never gonna wither Come on everybody time to deliver [Chorus] [repeat first verse]
Metallica
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Metallica--A Rock and Roll Band
Now some will say that this is really Hard Rock, but Rock is Rock and Roll. This Band does alot of music geared to establishment and governments and their disgrace. Here is just one example of their sog
ONE - Lyrics
I can't remember anything Can't tell if this is true or a dream Deep down inside I feel to scream This terrible silence stops in me Now that the war is through with me I'm waking up, I cannot see That there is not much left of me Nothing is real but pain now Hold my breath as I wish for death Oh please God, wake me Back in the womb it's much too real In pumps life that I must feel But can't look forward to reveal Look to the time when I live Fed through the tube that sticks in me Just like a wartime novelty. Tied to machines that make me be Cut this life off from me Hold my breath as I wish for death Oh please God, wake me Now the world is gone I'm just one Oh God, help me hold my breath as I wish for death Oh please God, help me Darkness imprisoning me All that I see Absolute horror I cannot live I cannot die Trapped in myself Body my holding cell Landmine Has taken my sight Taken my speech Taken my hearing Taken my arms Taken my legs Taken my soul Left me with life in hell
Obviously the are misled, because this is a song about Jesus
Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky Lyrics
When I die and they lay me to rest
Gonna go to the place that's the best
When I lay me down to die
Goin' up to the spirit in the sky
Goin' up to the spirit in the sky
That's where I'm gonna go when I die
When I die and they lay me to rest
Gonna go to the place that's the best
Prepare yourself you know it's a must
Gotta have a friend in Jesus
So you know that when you die
He's gonna recommend you
To the spirit in the sky
Gonna recommend you
To the spirit in the sky
That's where you're gonna go when you die
When you die and they lay you to rest
You're gonna go to the place that's the best
Never been a sinner I never sinned
I got a friend in Jesus
So you know that when I die
He's gonna set me up with
The spirit in the sky
Oh set me up with the spirit in the sky
That's where I'm gonna go when I die
When I die and they lay me to rest
I'm gonna go to the place that's the best
Go to the place that's the best
This is another song abut Jesus and it is Rock and Roll
Jesus is Just Alright - Doobie Brothers
A. Reynolds
Jesus is just alright with me, Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright with me, Jesus is just alright
I don't care what they may say
I don't care what they may do
I don't care what they may say
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright
Jesus is just alright with me, Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright with me, Jesus is just alright
I don't care what they may know
I don't care where they may go
I don't care what they may know
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus, he's my friend; Jesus, he's my friend
He took me by the hand; Led me far from this land
Jesus, he's my friend
Jesus is just alright with me, Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright with me, Jesus is just alright
I don't care what they may say, I don't care what they may do
I don't care what they may say, Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
I Don't Know How To Love Him - Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar - I don't Know How To Love Him
DON'T KNOW HOW TO LOVE HIM
MARY MAGDALENE
I don't know how to love him.
What to do, how to move him.
I've been changed, yes really changed.
In these past few days, when I've seen myself,
I seem like someone else.
I don't know how to take this.
I don't see why he moves me.
He's a man. He's just a man.
And I've had so many men before,
In very many ways,
He's just one more.
Should I bring him down?
Should I scream and shout?
Should I speak of love,
Let my feelings out?
I never thought I'd come to this.
What's it all about?
Don't you think it's rather funny,
I should be in this position.
I'm the one who's always been
So calm, so cool, no lover's fool,
Running every show.
He scares me so.
I never thought I'd come to this.
What's it all about?
Yet, if he said he loved me,
I'd be lost. I'd be frightened.
I couldn't cope, just couldn't cope.
I'd turn my head. I'd back away.
I wouldn't want to know.
He scares me so.
I want him so.
I love him so.
Third Day--Yes a Rock Band - Cry Out To Jesus
Third Day
THIRD DAY LYRICS
"Cry Out To Jesus"
To everyone who's lost someone they love
Long before it was their time
You feel like the days you had were not enough
when you said goodbye
And to all of the people with burdens and pains
Keeping you back from your life
You believe that there's nothing and there is no one
Who can make it right
There is hope for the helpless
Rest for the weary
Love for the broken heart
There is grace and forgiveness
Mercy and healing
He'll meet you wherever you are
Cry out to Jesus, Cry out to Jesus
For the marriage that's struggling just to hang on
They lost all of their faith in love
They've done all they can to make it right again
Still it's not enough
For the ones who can't break the addictions and chains
You try to give up but you come back again
Just remember that you're not alone in your shame
And your suffering
When your lonely
And it feels like the whole world is falling on you
You just reach out, you just cry out to Jesus
Cry to Jesus
To the widow who suffers from being alone
Wiping the tears from her eyes
For the children around the world without a home
Say a prayer tonight
Awesome God
Awesome God Lyrics
When He rolls up His sleeves
He ain't just puttin' on the ritz
(our God is an awesome God)
There is thunder in His footsteps
And lightning in His fist
(our God is an awesome God)
Well, the Lord wasn't joking
When He kicked 'em out of Eden
It wasn't for no reason that He shed his blood
His return is very close and so you better be believing
that our God is an awesome God
REFRAIN
Our God(our God) is an awesome God
He reigns(He reigns) from heaven above
With wisdom(with wisdom) pow'r and love
our God is an awesome God
And when the sky was starless in the void of the night
(our God is an awesome God)
He spoke into the darkness and created the light
(our God is an awesome God)
Judgment and wrath he poured out on Sodom
Mercy and grace He gave us at the cross
I hope that we have not too quickly forgotten that
our God is an awesome God
Refrain x3
Our God is an awesome God
Our God is an awesome God
(Our God is an awesome God)
(Our God is an awesome God)
Loosing My Religion --REM
Losing My Religion Lyrics
Oh, life is bigger
It's bigger than you
And you are not me
The lengths that I will go to
The distance in your eyes
Oh no, I've said too much
I set it up
(chorus)
That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight, I'm
Losing my religion
Trying to keep up with you
And I don't know if I can do it
Oh no, I've said too much
I haven't said enough
I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try
Every whisper
Of every waking hour I'm
Choosing my confessions
Trying to keep an eye on you
Like a hurt lost and blinded fool, fool
Oh no, I've said too much
I set it up
Consider this
Consider this
The hint of the century
Consider this
The slip that brought me
To my knees failed
What if all these fantasies
Come flailing around
Now I've said too much
I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try
But that was just a dream
That was just a dream
(repeat chorus)
But that was just a dream
Try, cry, why try?
That was just a dream
Just a dream, just a dream
Dream
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Well, I don't particularly like Rap or Hip Hop. I really didn't like it when I first heard the music that I thought was all about Satan and Devil and all those kinds of things----until----I was getting some music for a teen ager I was invloled with and really got the chance to listen to some of the words. It isn't all about the lyrics sometimes but more of the beat of the music that gets them to listen.
I believe this happened with almost all new music as it came out. This happened with jazz, rock, and rap. If it gets the young kids excited it seems to be considered the work of the devil for old fuddy duddy's. I know lots of people that loved these different types of music. But I don't know anyone in a cult. I supposes some of these people complaining also believe if you play Rock and Roll records backwards the devil will talk to you. when Elvis was on TV the cameras had to stay above his waist because of his supposedly vulgar dance moves. The musicians just use this hype to their advantage to sell more albums.
Music can touch our soul in different ways, it depends on who is listening. I do not think that it the the Devils tool.
Have you heard of Hillsong United? It's one of my favorite bands, it is a tool to reach the youth by playing rock music to worship God. One of there songs is, "One Way."
Lyrics goes this way:
I lay my life down at Your feet
Cause You're the only one I need
I turn to You and You are always there
In troubled times it's You I seek
I put You first that's all I need
I humble all I am all to You
One way, Jesus
You're the only one that I could live for
One Way, Jesus
You're the only one that I could live for
You are always, always there
Every how and everywhere
Your grace abounds so deeply within me
You will never ever change
Yesterday today the same
Forever till forever meets no end
You are the Way the Truth and the Life
We live by faith and not by sight for You
We're living all for You
Jim, it is kind of funny that they will use the Fear Factor to get anyone away from anything that is fun. Has anyone else noticed this? The original Bible scolars have taken anything that resmbles fun or laughter out of that bible saying it is heresy. Terrible. Life is more than just being somber and fearful tht your lofe will end someday. Live life today because we know not of tomorrow or even the next minute!
Sheena, there is beauty in all music if one just allows themselves to hear the words. Yes, tht even means those in which tell you to kill beasue it is only the fanatics that will take the worst of it and run with it.
Thanks! I tried to get the video and music for the ones listed in my hub but due to some kind of contract disagreement with You Tube they were taken off along with a few others. There are other sites that have them, but Hubpages hasn't included their codes for those yet.
What I think is that one should always be on guard when listening to music. This means that I am not excluding other music genre. There are songs that are too soft and mellow but the lyrics are just..well, indecent. Some implies a positive attitude towards violence, premarital sex...prejudice and other stuff like that... Satan knows how to camouflage... and Christians should be aware of his tricky moves. Godbless!
Yes, Satan sure knows how to deceive and it isn't only through music eh? It could very well be right in that Bible of yours when he uses the name of God to kill and murder. --Or do you believe that God really says to kill and murder in his Holy Name?
Have you ever read the Song of Soloman? Do you know how provocative that book is and ever wonder why that was included in the books of the Bible for all to read?
How many times must one hear a song to even hear if ther are bad lyrics to turn you to Satan.......one, two times?
one more nice hub
Lgali, Thanks for dropping by.
Oh now i know what you mean LG! There's this rock group that are labeled as Christians and I kind of like their music - it's Jars of Clay i believe.
Anyways, before it's disco and now rock music! I must say I'm getting a clearer view of you one hub at a time! Great hub! Thanks for sharing :D
It's many bands in that group of Christan Rock and Roll, not just one. There are hip hop and Rap bands in that group also.
Some bands are evil with evil intentions. Other bands in the SAME genre are not evil at all. I think you should look a bit more at the whole picture. It depends on where the person in the band stands, and what their intentions are. Take a look at this hub - this explains a lot about the evil nature of bands. I'm not saying rock n roll is evil, or that rock n roll is good. I'm just saying it depends on the band or person.
I just thought of a lyric and act that would come under great criticism by people who claim this: Arthur Brown's Fire in which he says "I am the god of Hell-fire and I bring you fire..."
I met Arthur at Glastonbury and had a long chat with him and he's a lovely man and a brilliant entertainer. Personally I don't believe in Hell. It's a fear factor to get people to obey dogma!
Also, want to add that what rock stars sing and do on stage is an act and an image and does not necessarily reflect them at all - they are entertainers after all.
Having said that, I am sure music does have a hold over fans and influences decisions and fans of an act who openly support a religion or cult are likely to join what their heroes are in. This used to happen a lot at the end of the 60s when the Beatles and many other stars were into Transcendental Meditation, gurus and the Hare Krishna Temple.
LG- I was shocked when I saw 18% believe that Rock and Roll is the tool of satan. It is up to the individual at what point in their life they want to take to spiritual path. I once mentioned the John Lenon Song Imagine and was told it is preaching a communist agenda. I guess people want to put things in straight jackets. But in reality we shouldn't try to confine everything into our narrow view of looking at things purely from a black or white perspective. Good thought provoking hub.
Kristen, that link is where I got the inspiration to write this hub. Evil is only for those who believe in it. If one does not beleive in it then there is no evil. I don't beleive in it so there is no evil to me. I used to believe in all the FEAR driven stuff, but have come to my senses and my own thoughts and feelings since then. We were not put on this earth to love a life that someone else wants us to live and if we don't then FEAR is slapped on our faces. I will leave that lonk here only becasue I believe in the freedom of speach and not to censor anything that I don't want to read. I have been censored even by the hubber that wrote that very hub and some of his other hubs as well. Do you know how that feels to be censored?
Bard of Ely, What a wonderful surprise that you drop into one of my hubs. It's been a while since I have seen you around!
Yes they are acts, just like those who act of Soap Operas. Ozzie as you see him on stage s not how he is in real life at all. Fear of the unknown or Fear that those who are thee cult leaders and such will lose the control of another is what really drives these leaders (BULLIES). If they can't have control then they will put fear into anything that they fll is needed--music is one.
CW, thanks for the comment. Yes it is sad that others want to control the world when they can't even control themselves.
Hi once again :) Regarding your question,
...do you believe that God really says to kill and murder in his Holy Name?
Your question is a good one. Many faithful servants of God have been disturbed by the wickedness around them.But if there is such irony occuring..
God is not to blame. He gave mankind a perfect start, but humans have chosen to ignore God’s requirements and decide for themselves what is good and what is bad.(Deut. 32:4, 5; Eccl. 7:29; Gen. 3:5, 6) By doing this, they have come under the influence of wicked superhuman forces.—Eph. 6:11, 12.
Now, in our time, some goes to war in a belief that God is with them. Sure they're not to blame. Their religious leaders taught them that ideology. And that is something ridiculous. Each party would receive a blessing from their religious leaders who would pray for them saying that God would hear them because they are righteous...in the end, the two fighting parties believe that both of them has God's support. do you think, which side would God listen to?
I have an interesting article to share with you... Perhaps this will not answer completely your questions since we cannot do it with just one sitting... but this has arguments that are very satisfying. Tell me what you think. (i'll be sending it to you ^^)
Yla, Cause and effect is also in that Bible, which is the same as Karma. Now there is also the talk of Love in ones heart and that if there is love there can be no fear. Yep, Jesus said that right in that book. Now you so called Christians can chose to have Fear and spread it througout and poison those whom you talk to but I choose to have Love in my heart. Jesus said not to fear him and I don't. I know that everything is going to be OK---because he told me so. Now you can choose to believe that it was and is Satan whom is talking to me and that be your choice because you choose to have fear in your hearts, but don't try to instill that fear into me becaeu I do not fear Jesus and his love. We are already loved because Jesus and God FIRST loved us.
Music is made by God and therefore it is a good thing. Everything is a good thing when it comes out in the end. I am sorry that you don't feel that way and try to convert anyone who feels or knows different. Ther is another thing that God has given us and that is SELF RESPOSIBILITY. We are responsible for our actions our own actions and therefoe it is only for us to se what is evil to us and what is not, but not to be prejudiced about it before we even hear the words. Things do not come the same way to everyone but only to the individual.
Jesus said this about everyone of you and you all forget that part: "forgive them for they know not what they do."
Now put the Fear out of your heart and replace it with the LOVE of Jesus because he said that there can't be both there at the same time. Believe me LOVE feels so much better than prejudice and spreading fear and trying to convert people to your thinking. Did he not make each individual as individuals---I think he had a reason for that--so we wouldn't become like "The Borg".
Hi Lady G, I for one listen to nothing but soft, medium, and hard rock and love it. I know that the ones you have listed are not my type of music, but i do love Black Sabath, not all of their music but most, and do not want to worship the Satan. I listen to music to feel good and get up and move, i love Areosmith, Kansas, Styx, Queen, Led Zephlin, Richie Blackmoore, Deep Purple, Robin Trower, Super Tramp, Rush just to name a few. All of these groups are great with a lot of wonderful music that gets your blood going. If there is any music that the Lord of Darkness loves, it would be Country music, with all of it's "gloom, dispare, and agony on me, deep dark depression, excessive misery, if wern't for bad luck i'd have no luck at all, gloom, dispare, and agony on me". That sums up Country music "with a tear in my beer", Satan just loves us being unhappy, wollowing in self pitty, depressed, crying over the past, if i, had i, should have, could have, would have, and cursing the day we were born. I know there are a lot of people who listen to Country music, and i am sorry if i have offended you, because i have a lot of friends who listen to it too (I am in Alabama) but they like me just the same, and we meet on common grounds when we listen to music (no Country, no Rock) just good music. Lady G I think that your Hub was really good and will view more of your Hubs (sorry i got off on a spree).
No problem at all. I also listen to most of the bands that you do. I do like a few country songs though but I can't stand rap or hip hop. There are lots of bands that are in the rock and roll genre that don't even come close to being a tool for Satan. I don't even think that we could list them on one page. When i sit and do hubs and write them and almot all the time I sit donw to do some work I listen to the elevator type music. When I want to dance though I will lsten to those songs that have a good beat and will get me moving. I lsten to the same when I have work to do in the house and I just an procratinating on doing it and a bit of the 70's music will get me moving and envigorated. There is way too many bands that are not evil or satanic. I think thee people lead a very sad lfe to tell others what they should be listening too and how to live their lives. They should be watching their own lives and what others will think of them by their actions, words, thoughts and deeds. People need to stop being busy bodies and spread love and not fear.
Emphatically no! The devil (if such a thing exists!) is in the listener not in the music.
But these are generalisations, of course.
A musician might be promoting something evil, but that does not mean that all musicians are.
In any case freedom of expression is the key - we are all held accountable for what we say or do - no need for a nanny to watch over us all the time!
Love and peace,
Tony
Tony, Yep It is up to each individual as to what they deem is evil--not on a whole of everyone.
Nice Hub, music can be percieve in different ways by people, It just all depends on who is listening.
Thank you for the comments and stopping by.
I think that there is nothing good or bad. Like one philosopher said "Everything that is in its place is good, and become bad when it's taken away from it". Same thing with the music.
Cheers to the people that look for Light
each of one has his or her own music preference, music can touch our amotions and can affect our action but I just don't believe that it is a tool of satan to influence those who listen to it.
u rock
you are th best killer dude
Emphatically no! The devil (if such a thing exists!) is in the listener not in the music.
But these are generalisations, of course.
A musician might be promoting something evil, but that does not mean that all musicians are.
In any case freedom of expression is the key - we are all held accountable for what we say or do - no need for a nanny to watch over us all the time!
I think that there is nothing good or bad. Like one philosopher said "Everything that is in its place is good, and become bad when it's taken away from it". Same thing with the music.
Cheers to the people that look for Light
Emphatically no! The devil (if such a thing exists!) is in the listener not in the music.
But these are generalisations, of course.
A musician might be promoting something evil, but that does not mean that all musicians are.
In any case freedom of expression is the key - we are all held accountable for what we say or do - no need for a nanny to watch over us all the time!
I think that there is nothing good or bad. Like one philosopher said "Everything that is in its place is good, and become bad when it's taken away from it". Same thing with the music.
Cheers to the people that look for Light
Emphatically no! The devil (if such a thing exists!) is in the listener not in the music.
But these are generalisations, of course.
A musician might be promoting something evil, but that does not mean that all musicians are.
In any case freedom of expression is the key - we are all held accountable for what we say or do - no need for a nanny to watch over us all the time!
I think that there is nothing good or bad. Like one philosopher said "Everything that is in its place is good, and become bad when it's taken away from it". Same thing with the music.
Cheers to the people that look for Light
Emphatically no! The devil (if such a thing exists!) is in the listener not in the music.
But these are generalisations, of course.
A musician might be promoting something evil, but that does not mean that all musicians are.
In any case freedom of expression is the key - we are all held accountable for what we say or do - no need for a nanny to watch over us all the time!
I think that there is nothing good or bad. Like one philosopher said "Everything that is in its place is good, and become bad when it's taken away from it". Same thing with the music.
Cheers to the people that look for Light
Emphatically no! The devil (if such a thing exists!) is in the listener not in the music.
But these are generalisations, of course.
A musician might be promoting something evil, but that does not mean that all musicians are.
In any case freedom of expression is the key - we are all held accountable for what we say or do - no need for a nanny to watch over us all the time!
I think that there is nothing good or bad. Like one philosopher said "Everything that is in its place is good, and become bad when it's taken away from it". Same thing with the music.
Cheers to the people that look for Light
Emphatically no! The devil (if such a thing exists!) is in the listener not in the music.
But these are generalisations, of course.
A musician might be promoting something evil, but that does not mean that all musicians are.
In any case freedom of expression is the key - we are all held accountable for what we say or do - no need for a nanny to watch over us all the time!
I think that there is nothing good or bad. Like one philosopher said "Everything that is in its place is good, and become bad when it's taken away from it". Same thing with the music.
Cheers to the people that look for Light
Emphatically no! The devil (if such a thing exists!) is in the listener not in the music.
But these are generalisations, of course.
A musician might be promoting something evil, but that does not mean that all musicians are.
In any case freedom of expression is the key - we are all held accountable for what we say or do - no need for a nanny to watch over us all the time!
I think that there is nothing good or bad. Like one philosopher said "Everything that is in its place is good, and become bad when it's taken away from it". Same thing with the music.
Cheers to the people that look for Light
Emphatically no! The devil (if such a thing exists!) is in the listener not in the music.
But these are generalisations, of course.
A musician might be promoting something evil, but that does not mean that all musicians are.
In any case freedom of expression is the key - we are all held accountable for what we say or do - no need for a nanny to watch over us all the time!
I think that there is nothing good or bad. Like one philosopher said "Everything that is in its place is good, and become bad when it's taken away from it". Same thing with the music.
Cheers to the people that look for Light
Emphatically no! The devil (if such a thing exists!) is in the listener not in the music.
But these are generalisations, of course.
A musician might be promoting something evil, but that does not mean that all musicians are.
In any case freedom of expression is the key - we are all held accountable for what we say or do - no need for a nanny to watch over us all the time!
I think that there is nothing good or bad. Like one philosopher said "Everything that is in its place is good, and become bad when it's taken away from it". Same thing with the music.
Cheers to the people that look for Light
Emphatically no! The devil (if such a thing exists!) is in the listener not in the music.
But these are generalisations, of course.
A musician might be promoting something evil, but that does not mean that all musicians are.
In any case freedom of expression is the key - we are all held accountable for what we say or do - no need for a nanny to watch over us all the time!
I think that there is nothing good or bad. Like one philosopher said "Everything that is in its place is good, and become bad when it's taken away from it". Same thing with the music.
Cheers to the people that look for Light
Emphatically no! The devil (if such a thing exists!) is in the listener not in the music.
But these are generalisations, of course.
A musician might be promoting something evil, but that does not mean that all musicians are.
In any case freedom of expression is the key - we are all held accountable for what we say or do - no need for a nanny to watch over us all the time!
I think that there is nothing good or bad. Like one philosopher said "Everything that is in its place is good, and become bad when it's taken away from it". Same thing with the music.
Cheers to the people that look for Light
Emphatically no! The devil (if such a thing exists!) is in the listener not in the music.
But these are generalisations, of course.
A musician might be promoting something evil, but that does not mean that all musicians are.
In any case freedom
In fact, music influences and manipulates us more than we know.
Note. This material does not even "scratch the surface" of the enormous amount of material I have found - with little effort, on the effects of music. It is also worth mentioning that most of the following material is not from a Christian perspective.
And when we refer to music, we are referring to the score or composition. And not the lyrics.
Music effects the human body in subtle, but powerful ways.
A well established fact is the human body and mind can be controlled and altered with music. Many scientific and medical studies have proved conclusively the tremendous effects of music upon the human physiology and anatomy. Music is used to lower blood pressure, treat mental illness, depression, mental retardation, insomnia and many others.
Musicologist Julius Portnoy found that not only can music, "change metabolism, affect muscular energy, raise or lower blood pressure, and influence digestion," but "It may be able to do all these things more successfully ... than any other stimulants that produce those changes in our bodies." (Tame, David, The Secret Power of Music, p. 138).
Clinical researchers at the U.C.L.A. School of Nursing in Los Angeles, and at Georgia Baptist Medical Center in Atlanta, found that premature babies gained weight faster and were able to use oxygen more efficiently when they listened to soothing music.
At Baltimore's St. Agnes Hospital, classical music was provided in the critical-care units. "Half an hour of music produced the same effect as ten milligrams of Valium," says Dr. Raymond Bahr, head of the coronary-care unit.
The great pianist and composer of the 1800's, Frederic Chopin, at the age of ten, was often summoned to play for the Grand Duke Constantine, governor of Poland. The Duke had recurring seizures of madness which could seemingly be controlled only by Chopin's music. When the little boy played, the seizures abated and the governor could resume his normal activities, only to send for Chopin again when the musical medicine wore off.
How does music help? Some studies show it can lower blood pressure, basal-metabolism and respiration rates, thus lessening physiological responses to stress. Other studies suggest music may help increase production of endorphins (natural pain relievers) and S-IgA (Salivary immunoglobulin A). S-IgA speeds healing, reduces the danger of infections, and controls the heart rate. Studies indicate both hemispheres of the brain are involved in processing music. Dr. Sacks explains, "The neurological basis of musical responses is robust and may even survive damage to both hemispheres" ("Music's Surprising Power to Heal," 8/92 Reader's Digest).
"To the question, 'Does music affect man's physical body?' modern research applies in the clear affirmative. There is scarcely a single function of the body which cannot be affected by musical tones. The roots of the auditory nerves are more widely distributed and possess more extensive connections than those of any other nerves in the body. Investigation has shown that music affects digestion, internal secretions, circulation, nutrition and respiration. Even neural networks of the brain have been found to be sensitive to harmonic principles" (Tame, David, The Secret Power of Music, p. 136).
Music can also be dangerous to the body.
Dr. Adam Knieste, a musicologist who studies the effects of music upon people noted:
"It's really a powerful drug. Music can POISON you, lift your spirits, or MAKE YOU SICK without knowing why." (Family Weekly Magazine, January 30, 1983, p. 12, article by David Chagall)
Rock music can literally kill.
The view that music is amoral or neutral with no inherent power to effect is completely proven false by extensive research performed on plant life. Rock music, with it's hard driving beat, played to plants will kill the plants - while soothing classical music causes the plants to grow twice as fast.
"Paradoxical as it may seem, music's effect upon the more primitive vegetable kingdom is one of the most convincing methods of all for proving that music does affect life, including human life. For experiments conducted with humans, and even, to some extent, with animals, have the extra factor of the mind to contend with. This means that while men or animals may be demonstrated to have been affected by tones, the effect may not have been a direct or objective one. Rather, the effect upon the body may have been caused by the mind's subjective reaction to the music heard. In the case of plant-music research, however, psychological factors cannot really be said to be present. If music can be shown to affect plants, then such effects have to be due to the objective influence of the tones directly upon the cells and processes of the life-form." "An intensive series of studies carried out by Dorothy Retallack of Denver, Colorado, demonstrated the effects of different kinds of music on a variety of household plants. The experiments were controlled under strict scientific conditions, and the plants were kept within large closed cabinets on wheels in which light, temperature and air were automatically regulated. Three hours a day of acid rock, played through a loudspeaker at the side of the cabinet, was found to stunt and damage squash plants, philodendrons and corn in under four weeks. Mrs Retallack played the music of the two different Denver radio stations to two groups of petunias. The radio stations were KIMN (a rock station) and KLIR (a semiclassical station). The Denver Post reported:`The petunias listening to KIMN refused to bloom. Those on KLIR developed six beautiful blooms. By the end of the second week, the KIMN petunias were LEANING AWAY from the radio and showing very erratic growth. The petunia blooms hearing KLIR were all leaning TOWARD THE SOUND. Within a month all plants exposed to rock music DIED. In another experiment, conducted over three weeks, Dorothy Retallack played the music of Led Zeppelin and Vanilla Fudge to one group of beans, squash (marrow), corn, morning glory and coleus; she also played contemporary avant-garde atonal music to a second group; and, as a control, played nothing to a third group. Within ten days, the plants exposed to Led Zeppelin and Vanilla Fudge were all LEANING AWAY FROM THE SPEAKER. After three weeks they were stunted and DYING. The beans exposed to the 'new music' leaned 15 degrees from the speaker and were found to have middle-sized roots. The plants left in silence had the longest roots and grew the highest. Further, it was discovered that plants to which placid, devotional music was played not only grew two inches taller than plants left in silence, but also leaned TOWARDS THE SPEAKER. (Tame, David The Secret Power of Music, p. 142 - 144)
All the plants that were next to the rock music - LEANED AWAY FROM THE SPEAKERS - trying to get away from the music! And to show that it was not just the noise itself - the plants next to the classical music - LEANED TOWARD THE SPEAKERS - actually trying to get closer to the music.
In the end - ALL the plants next to the rock music - DIED!
Do you still think music is neutral?
Rock music, not the lyrics - JUST THE MUSIC, has been scientifically proven to literally KILL!
And some Christians actually believe that the giver of LIFE - the Lord Jesus Christ is the author and god of "rock and roll"! The One that made the plants and LIFE itself, is the author of a killer - Rock music! What could be more ridiculous!
Jesus Christ said in John 10:10, ". . . The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to KILL, and to destroy: I am come that they might have LIFE, and that they might have it more abundantly."
John 14:6, says "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the LIFE: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
And Christian rocker Larry Norman expects you to take him seriously when he falsely claims"rock music comes from God through the church".(Hart, Lowell Satan's Music Exposed, Salem Kirban Inc., 1980 p
Wow alot of spam came through last night and all of them were 7 hours ago.......hmmmm. Well lets see what we have left after deleting the double and tripple posts and spam.......
Tech, you are correct.
Satan you need to get a grip on your send button. That song you posted is from The Red Hot Chillie Peppers ad that song is about Love and nothing else. If you think otherwise then this hub has proved the point that each of us has a diffrerent persepective on everything. It all dependson where you are coming from. See I don't beleive in Satan and no matter how many posts you repeat isn't going to change my mind.
GOd, whoever you are, I don't know what you are meaning in your comment. Could you explain a bit more?
A few months back I posted a tributed to Larry Norman ... he was on the cutting edge of this debate. One of my favorites, "Why should the devil have all the good music?"
And, of course, "Righteous Rocker"
The argument "satan" (or whoever this dude really is) posted is arcahic and....well....very, very limited on scientific trials. I can only remember one other person in my life bringing up the plant argument and that alone is ridiculous, considering plants are not even close to anything else animal, certainly not humans. Their cellular makeup alone is far different, meaning the trial was probably a joke and that's why no one has taken to it. Because after all, the people without foundation to debate are the ones swiftly laughed at and tossed away.
No matter how you look at it, music is a gift. I've been gifted with it and plan to use it, and it isn't killing me.
Look at the Rolling Stones, for crying out loud. If anyone should be dead from rock music, you'd think they'd have been the first to go. And they're still kicking...
Well ... if you look closely at the rolling stones, it's pretty clear that they're actually undead. Not that they don't still make good music mind you ... but ... :)
We believe that anything can be used as a tool for Satan. Just as evil can be used for good, so can good for evil. Team Wiseman
Satan doesn't exist.
Updated with more videos and lyrics for those who can't watch them.
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goldentoad says:
12 months ago
I remember record burning and my grandma getting all preachy on me when she heard my music but when she heard rap music taking over, it took her mind away from the devil music and she was on a new soap box.