RE: {NBC} Question & South Park [reply]
Posted by: tstakes <tstakes@...>
Never have watched SouthPark, since it came out after I started having kids
(I do watch a lot of SpongeBob, though). I wonder how these guys get tuned
in to what's happening in the little nitch market we call CCM? I do agree
with you, though, that we need to re-evaluate out artistic priorities in
general. To me, CCM today is no more that the same stuff we can find in the
pop music industry. It's all commercial, it's mostly owned and controlled
by the same Madison Ave. suits and that explains it for me. My fear is that
this lovely Worship Together/One Day/Passion/Kingsway Thankyou/etc. movement
that God has raised up is slipping into the same coma. I pray I'm wrong...
YITBOP,
Ty
-----Original Message-----
From: Monte Butts [mailto:mbutts@envirobay.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 10:52 PM
To: churchbass@welovegod.org
Subject: {NBC} Question & South Park
On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 07:25 PM, Chetin Basaran wrote:
> Chocolate was the first proof in my life of the fact that God loves me
> and wants me to be happy.
Ben Franklin called it another substance. I agree, but to keep the list in
harmony, I will refrain. 😉
Monte
P.S. Any South Park watchers on here? Tonight's episode was a pretty
scathing parody on Christian rock music. Cartmann starts a Christian rock
band because he has a bet that he can get a platinum record before Kyle's
band, because "Christians will buy any crap as long as Jesus' name is on it.
Plus the songs are easy to write because all you do is take love songs and
replace the word baby with Jesus." He becomes successful, but loses the bet
in an ironic twist when the Christian music industry doesn't give out Gold
and Platinum records, choosing instead to award Frankincense and Myrrh
records......he loses it on stage, cursing and losing everything.
Regardless of what anyone thinks about the show (and it can be pretty
brutal, terrible language, and even blasphemous at times and if I had kids,
it would never be on), it had a lot of truth to it. Not that there aren't
brilliant and talented Christian artists out there but...well, a trip to
your local Christian bookstore will show there is a lot of schlock as well
that people will buy because it has a Christian name. I'm thinking of the
Jesus playing soccer figurines. Sigh.
Unfortunately, funny and thought provoking. Shows we still have a lot of
work to prove that Christians shouldn't settle for second rate art.