Time Life Christian Music

[Dr. Omega]

So they keep running this Time/Life Christian music commercial on cable and they play a music clip of this song, "God of Wonders." I am not religious, but just the snippet they play bugs the hell out of me.

Here is the chorus:

God of wonders
Beyond our galaxy
You are holy, holy
The universe
Declares your majesty
You are holy, holy

Ok, so first, "Beyond our galaxy?" I don't recall the bible ever bringing up astronomy. I thought God lived in Heaven. Is heaven in another galaxy, or is he just visiting Alpha Centuri on vacation or something? If he isn't in our galaxy, wouldn't that make him further removed from humanity? I guess this would answer Kirk's question from Star Trek V--"What does God need with a starship?"

"You are holy." You are writing a song praising your diety and the most descriptive thing you can think of is calling him holy? Isn't that pretty much by definition? This seems like telling your wife on Valentine's day: "Dear, to me, you are female."

"The Universe declares your majesty." Really? From the CIA:

Religions:

Christians 33.03% (of which Roman Catholics 17.33%, Protestants 5.8%, Orthodox 3.42%, Anglicans 1.23%), Muslims 20.12%, Hindus 13.34%, Buddhists 5.89%, Sikhs 0.39%, Jews 0.23%, other religions 12.61%, non-religious 12.03%, atheists 2.36% (2004 est.)
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications.../print/xx.html
Looks like only a thrid of the planet declares his majesty, and that is a combination of 4 different factions. Kind of over-reaching there, aren't we?

Am I the only one bothered by this song?

Dr. Ω

[bairdduvessa]

So they keep running this Time/Life Christian music commercial on cable and they play a music clip of this song, "God of Wonders." I am not religious, but just the snippet they play bugs the hell out of me.

Here is the chorus:

God of wonders
Beyond our galaxy
You are holy, holy
The universe
Declares your majesty
You are holy, holy

Ok, so first, "Beyond our galaxy?" I don't recall the bible ever bringing up astronomy. I thought God lived in Heaven. Is heaven in another galaxy, or is he just visiting Alpha Centuri on vacation or something? If he isn't in our galaxy, wouldn't that make him further removed from humanity? I guess this would answer Kirk's question from Star Trek V--"What does God need with a starship?"

"You are holy." You are writing a song praising your diety and the most descriptive thing you can think of is calling him holy? Isn't that pretty much by definition? This seems like telling your wife on Valentine's day: "Dear, to me, you are female."

"The Universe declares your majesty." Really? From the CIA:

Religions:

Christians 33.03% (of which Roman Catholics 17.33%, Protestants 5.8%, Orthodox 3.42%, Anglicans 1.23%), Muslims 20.12%, Hindus 13.34%, Buddhists 5.89%, Sikhs 0.39%, Jews 0.23%, other religions 12.61%, non-religious 12.03%, atheists 2.36% (2004 est.)
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications.../print/xx.html
Looks like only a thrid of the planet declares his majesty, and that is a combination of 4 different factions. Kind of over-reaching there, aren't we?

Am I the only one bothered by this song?

Dr. Ω

:LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

[Foolish Mortal]

Christians believe God created All Creation. So..

The Universe = All Creation.

[JoeE]

The only Christian song you'll ever need:

Jesus was way cool
Everybody liked Jesus
Everybody wanted to hang out with him
Anything he wanted to do, he did
He turned water into wine
And if he wanted to
He could have turned wheat into marijuana
Or sugar into cocaine
Or vitamin pills into amphetamines

He walked on the water
And swam on the land
He would tell these stories
And people would listen
He was really cool

If you were blind or lame
You just went to Jesus
And he would put his hands on you
And you would be healed
That's so cool

He could've played guitar better than Hendrix
He could've told the future
He could've baked the most delicious cake in the world
He could've scored more goals than Wayne Gretzky
He could've danced better than Barishnikov
Jesus could have been funnier than any comedian you can think of
Jesus was way cool

He told people to eat his body and drink his blood
That's so cool
Jesus was so cool
But then some people got jealous of how cool he was
So they killed him
But then he rose from the dead
He rose from the dead, danced around
Then went up to heaven
I mean, that's so cool
Jesus was way cool

No wonder there are so many Christians

[ihategravity]

So they keep running this Time/Life Christian music commercial on cable and they play a music clip of this song, "God of Wonders." I am not religious, but just the snippet they play bugs the hell out of me.

Here is the chorus:

God of wonders
Beyond our galaxy
You are holy, holy
The universe
Declares your majesty
You are holy, holy


"You are holy." You are writing a song praising your diety and the most descriptive thing you can think of is calling him holy? Isn't that pretty much by definition? This seems like telling your wife on Valentine's day: "Dear, to me, you are female."



Am I the only one bothered by this song?

Dr. Ω

not only do they say "holy" once, they repeat it. Yeah, I've been bothered by those commercials before. I know one of them has a song called "awesome God". Was this song written by a 6 year old in the early 90's?

[Ryan Elliott]

All Christian Music bothers me.

[Damian696]

Jesus war ein guter Mann
der hatte einen Umhang an
Jesus war ein flotter Typ
den haten alle Leute lieb

Jesus hatte langes Haar
und braune Augen wunderbar
Jesus hatte Latschen an
wie kein andrer Mann

Jesus Jesus
du warst echt O.K.
Jesus Jesus
everytime fair play!

Jesus war ein Wandersmann
am liebsten auf'm Ozean
ja und seine Zaubershow
hatte wirklich Weltniveau

Ja aus Wasser machte er Wein
wer will da nicht sein Kumpel sein?
Aus einem Brötchen wurden zwei
Mensch komm doch mal vorbei!

Jesus Jesus
du warst echt O.K.
Jesus Jesus
everytime fair play!

[RickLM]

We sing this one in our church. Like most of today's church songs, it's very trendy and not nearly as cool as the old hymns, but no one wants to sing those, so whatever.

As someone said, Christians believe God created the earth and the rest of the universe, and doing something that amazing is a testament to his power.

Calling him holy seems obvious, but throughout the Bible (like in the Psalms and elsehwere), God's followers would repeat his attributes back to him. In prayer and in song, the religious person thanks God for his love and power and his compassion.

Hope this helps.

[ClintP]

I don't like Christian music, but do we really need to talk against it?

[Dr. Omega]

I don't like Christian music, but do we really need to talk against it?

I am not talking against Christian music. I don't have a problem with that.

I am talking against this song writer's writing abilities.


Dr. Ω