[✌➬]

I was at school, and this guy, gave me a flyer, to go to a Christian Concert. However I told him I wouldn't come, because I am not a religious person. That it was okay for him to believe in it, but I personally don't believe in it, and don't want to.

So is it rude?

[flophousefloozie]

First of all, what do you take in school?

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Originally Posted by flophousefloozie

First of all, what do you take in school?

3 Art History, Stats, English, and Water-coloring class.

[davenotdead]

i dont think that was rude.

[StevOK]

It's not as rude as what would have happened had I been in the same situation.

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

I would have just taken it, not said anything, folded it up and put it in my pocket, and then thrown it away when I clear out my pockets at the end of the day.

[Death & the Maiden]

That seemed more polite than rude.

[Norma J]

But the bands could have been great?

Don't dismiss things because of a label.

[ZEROpumpkins]

Pfft christian rock suks. Just look at Creed.

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Originally Posted by Norma J

But the bands could have been great?

Don't dismiss things because of a label.

Is not that, is just that i am not religious. They were going to have prayers and all that type.

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

I think there could be a good Christian rock band, but most artists aren't influenced by religion like they used to be. Some truly great music and art has come from reverie of God. Classical compositions, epic poems, and some wonderful cathedrals, statues, and paintings.

The Christian community stopped embracing modern art at some point, and I think it has alienated artists. So the only ones that do make religious music are nonartists, like the members of Creed.

[✌➬]

Oh, I totally agree with good religious art. But I don't want to be preached by people, when I already made my mind up.

[✌➬]

This is one of my favorite artwork's.

 

[davenotdead]

who's the artist? ^^ thats fantastic

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

I think that the artistic decay of the Christian community has more to do with the decay of Christianity than the advance of Science. The backlash against the lavish churches of the roman catholic church has led to some churches being so minimal that they rely only on words to try to inspire people. Preachers who are not poets speak to people who have no appreciation of art who stand up and sing songs horribly out of key because the church organ is considered part of that "wrong" old school approach. So they don't sing songs written by Bach, they sing songs written by some fucking hick from teh 1960s.

Personally I want imagery. I relate art very closely to God. Walking through an old Eastern Orthodox church in greece and visiting the Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque in Turkey and seeing David in Florence were by far much more religious experiences to me than going to youth group at age 15 and singing bullshit like "God makes the sky blue, God saves me and God saves you" monotonously because I had never heard the song (not that I'd ever want to.)

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Giotto.

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

Originally Posted by ✌➬

This is one of my favorite artwork's.

 

Artists back then never had sex and knew nothing of sexual implications of such things. Davinci couldn't draw a pussy worth shit.

[✌➬]

Is not that they didn't know how, they just were barely learning how to do perspective, 3D, and all the stuff we would later encounter.

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Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead

I think that the artistic decay of the Christian community has more to do with the decay of Christianity than the advance of Science. The backlash against the lavish churches of the roman catholic church has led to some churches being so minimal that they rely only on words to try to inspire people. Preachers who are not poets speak to people who have no appreciation of art who stand up and sing songs horribly out of key because the church organ is considered part of that "wrong" old school approach. So they don't sing songs written by Bach, they sing songs written by some fucking hick from teh 1960s.

Personally I want imagery. I relate art very closely to God. Walking through an old Eastern Orthodox church in greece and visiting the Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque in Turkey and seeing David in Florence were by far much more religious experiences to me than going to youth group at age 15 and singing bullshit like "God makes the sky blue, God saves me and God saves you" monotonously because I had never heard the song (not that I'd ever want to.)

Yes, it would be helpful now too if religion would embrace art. Mostly, because more and more people are becoming illiterate.

Edit- Also the new idea they have that denouncing science, because god did not do it is really a step backwards.

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

Yeah, it's pretty stupid. Dinosaurs did exist.

I don't see why it is such a problem to consider Genesis metaphorical for how God really created the world. Why would the angel Gabriel even try to explain the big bang, evolution, etc?