music and movies

going to church my friend no more makes one a christian tha sitting in a garage once a week will make you a car!It is not the church that is important but what you believe in your heart that matters!

I think your experience of life and art would be very narrow if you limited your consumption only to TV, films, music, books and games that came with a Christian seal of approval. Art and entertainment give people pleasure and also give them new perspectives on the world. It would be very dull and boring if everything you experienced just parroted back your own beliefs and opinions at you, and you would end up becoming very dull and boring too! I can't believe that any God would wish to impoverish his followers in that way. The best way of establishing your own views on the world is to expose yourself to as many competing views as possible, so you have some idea of the richness of possibilities out there.

Well, I am a follower of the words of Christ, for want of a better term (well, I try). But I have no issue with ireligious art. *shrug* you should read some of my fiction... Art is art, and some times it's just plain funny; if you cannot laugh at yourself and all that you are then you need to take a long hard look at yourself and find out why you think you are so special. One of my favourite artistic images is by Giger (of Alien fame). It's an image of Satan holding Christ Crucified as a sling shot... not sure what he was trying to say. However, not only is it beautiful but, in a way, makes me think of many a 'Christian' (especially the Catholic Church)... using Christ as a means to do ill _ Does this make me less religious? Or does this mean I think about my faith?