That’s what you do when you try to wrap Christianity into secular veneers of music.
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Music, in and of itself, is neither secular nor sacred.
“Music, in and of itself, is neither secular nor sacred.”
That’s not true.
If it was you could take AC/DC and change the words and voila! according to you it would be sacred. That simply ignores the music itself. What you are saying is the actual music itself has no impact at all on the spirituality of the music. That couldn’t be more wrong.
If you look at the kinds of music unsaved peoples that pray to spirits and such, in Africa for example, you see these strong beat rhythms. Juju and voodoo use heavy beat drums, and it’s no accident that a lot of the ritual dancing devolves into sex and sacrifice and shedding blood.
We have documented stories of Christian missionaries going over to Africa with their kids, who bring their rock music along with them, only to have a saved African who once was involved with pagan religion, to come up to them while the kids are playing that music, and asking them why they are playing devil music/voodoo music. Because of the beat, the heavy rhythmic drum that gets things going. If anyone knows what kind of music that is, it’s someone who’s been incolved in that kind of pagan practices. To hear supposed Christians listening to what he considers the kind of music unsaved people in his country listen and dance and do rituals to, that tells you something.