Why A Cappella Music is Evil
- Some have argued that instruments detract from the singing. But actually instruments help people sing–especially bad singers. Bad singers are embarrassed to sing in acappella music because they stick out like a sore thumb. With some drums, guitars, basses, and fairly loud volume, however, they are free to sing loudly and praise the Lord with all the rest of the saints.
- Singing with the voice only promotes a dangerous undercurrent of the “pride of life” in the singer. It leads to competition among who can sing the best. It produces a concentration on singing the “notes” which detracts from the worship of God. It leads to flatting and sharping which disrupts the spirit and fosters discord among the brethren (especially the sistren who have to hit the high notes).
- Singing acappella necessitates a man or woman upfront beating time since there aren’t any drums and that makes his/her body sway and can tempt the opposite sex or same sex in a mixed audience that contains homosexuals (like in street evangelism…)
- Singing a cappella, most of all, is never commanded in the Bible, so we must ask ourselves: What good does it do? And since I have demonstrated none, we must conclude that we should not do it since it is not commanded.
- Singing harmony is nowhere recorded in the Bible and really wasn’t invented until 500 years ago. Thus it should be viewed as part of the CCM movement which everyone knows sprung out of the hippie culture and rock music and drugs. It’s nothing but following the latest fads of the world.
Adapted from a post by joshuabgood.
Thebeachcomplexrabblerouser wrote,
1. Instruments help bad singers? Coulda fooled me, because if anything loud instrumentation leads to bad singing. Furthermore, I can’t sing P&W style even with loud instrumentation to distract from my severe lack of vocal talent, because I ain’t Micheal W. Smith (nor do I want to be, btw).
2. A Capalla causes pride? Like putting a musician playing an instrument in front of the church is going to solve that problem? Because, I really can’t see how elevating select handful of members in a congregation to being in the “worship band” will make them less likely to be proud.
Eliminating bad music by bringing in a band? Not likely! If anything, now you are giving the bad musicians amplifiers, because heaven forbid you let only the “proud” (or talented) musicians play,right? Shouldn’t worship be an equal opportunity experience? That means the crappy musicians need to play to be consistent with point two.
3. Beating time encourages lustful thoughts? Interesting, because if that is the case, I wonder if putting a worship band filled with sweaty Christian rockstar wannabe’s in front of the church is going to change that? If anything, that might be a reason to keep that song leader beating time and reason perhaps we should let only unattractive people with poor form lead singing?
4. If the three above points by jbgood are true of accapella singing (distracts from worship, encourages pride and sparks lustful thoughts), then it is likely more true when you put a group of people in front of the church to showcase thier extra musical talents.
5. Webblogs weren’t in the Bible, but that doesn’t stop us from employing and prefering that format for sharing our satire. And as Tevye the Milkman would say, ain’t nothing wrong with tradition!
Link | May 2nd, 2007 at 3:29 pm