I remember reading a dude saying he was terrified by ppl speaking in tongues at a Pentecostal service "These people are insane"
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This seems to me to be why Christian rock is a thing, really - the way people flip out at a rock concert is very consistent with >
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> that form of worship, so from their POV they're trying to redirect from worship of the band (idolatry) to worship of their God
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Well yeah a revival meeting and a rock concert are the exact same structure of experience
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The cynical punk rock atheist dude at my Christian HS would always comment on "praise and worship" sessions - "Music is a hell of a drug"
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He's a Ron Paul libertarian now for some reason
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Anyway Stew (formerly of Heidi & Stew and of the show Passing Strange) did a song about his love of gospel music as an atheist
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"Music Is the Freight Train on Which God Travels", which is an awesome shade-throwing at religion by subtly calling God a bum
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It's in the musical Passing Strange as the climax of a sequence where the main character has an epiphanic experience at a revival
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The full version has a verse mocking the trope of using homeless people as an allegorical stand-in for God
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"It's ok, the hobo said, I promise I'm not Jesus in disguise"
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