This is the question that it really comes down to isn’t it? Is there bad music or it is just everyone’s taste and preferences? — You know, you have yours and I have mine and let’s be tolerant of each other.

Roger Scruton in his book Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged says there is bad music. He says “we move with the music that we listen to, and this too is a sympathetic response, a way of shaping our inner life to fit the perceived life of another. . . . Movement is a mark of character, and some kinds of character ought not to be subjects of sympathy, not even of the wordless sympathy that is conveyed by instrumental music.” — What do you think about what he says? Come Sunday morning and we’ll think more about God and music.

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