Life's Philosophical Quandaries #1
If you love most types of music without prejudice, but possess a considerable lack of religious faith...is it hypocritical to listen to Stryper?
posted by aboynamedjimmy at 8:24 PM
posted by aboynamedjimmy at 8:24 PM
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Interesting question... Would listening to and liking the Mormon Tabernacle Choir mean that you think Joseph Smith was a prophet of God??
Flip the coin, do you have to be a "infidel" to appreciate the Stones or the Beatles or Floyd? Do you have to be an objectivist epistemologist to appreciate Rush? Gentleman, I present for your consideration the doctrine of universal human experience: that which joins us is more mighty than that which separates us. Stryper ain't just for religious folk any more than Bob Marley is only for Rastafarians. Good art is human, and appeals to something preconscious, predoctrinal, prereflective before we can formulate our appreciation through the filter of language.
Well, the post was mostly meant as an amusement...a joke, if you will. Hence the brevity. ;)
I didn't know it would open an industrial-size 50-gallon tank of worms! LOL
Well, I wouldn't say their career has had an end. They just put out a new album. Check out www.stryper.com.
As to them being secular, I would say that at the very least, they wrote a lot of their songs with double meaning, probably at the request of their management, to be able to cross over and be popular with a larger audience, hence more money. Although, maybe Stryper themselves wanted to reach a bigger audience in hopes of getting their message to more people.
Trust me, your original post was amusing. Philosophy is as much laughing at the universe as it is anything. "Sacred" and "secular"... like *those* words have any real meaning! :-)
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