What do you think about Christianity and heavy metal music? As an avid listener of the genre and a Christian, I’m always plagued with people telling me that it’s wrong and satanic. Since I’m the one who actually listens to the genre, I find that those people aren’t very educated on the matter. From a ministerial point of view, what do you believe?<\/p>\n\t
Heavy metal music can be hard on the ears, but what makes a song right or wrong morally is what that song advocates in its words. I suspect that many don’t trust heavy metal because they don’t understand what is being said and therefore assume it is about unrighteous things.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Question: What do you think about Christianity and heavy metal music? As an avid listener of the genre and a Christian, I’m always plagued with people telling me that it’s wrong and satanic. Since I’m the one who actually listens to the genre, I find that those people aren’t very educated on the matter. 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