Adam Sams is an exception. He is really great, and sings truly inspirational songs asking us to be better people. Judging by audience reaction, many people really hunger for this.http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2014/06/24/favorite-christian-band-probably-isnt-christian
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
by Paul Resnikoff
Has ‘Christian music’ become a scam, driven more by money than actual religious beliefs? Yes, according to Tim Lambesis, the once-popular lead singer of As I Lay Dying who is now a declared atheist and says most other ‘Christian bands’ are basically fronts.
Lambesis is also at the beginning of a six-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to hiring a hitman to kill his ex-wife, which means he has very little to lose at this point. “I actually wasn’t the first guy in As I Lay Dying to stop being a Christian,” Lambesis explained in a lengthy interview with Alternative Press. “In fact, I think I was the third. The two who remained kind of stopped talking about it, and then I’m pretty sure they dropped it, too.”
“We talked about whether to keep taking money from the ‘Christian market.’ We had this bizarrely ‘noble’ thing, like, ‘Well, we’re not passing along any bad ideas. We’re just singing about real life stuff. Those kids need to hear about real life, because they live in a bubble.’”
Lambesis said As I Lay Dying wasn’t alone in the charade. “We toured with more ‘Christian bands’ who actually aren’t Christians than bands that are. In 12 years of touring with As I Lay Dying, I would say maybe one in 10 Christian bands we toured with were actually Christian bands.”
It gets worse.
“I remember one Christian festival where an interviewer wanted one of the guys to share his testimony, and he just froze up and let one of the guys who was still a Christian at the time answer the question.
[At least that shows enough integrity that someone didn't give a "testimony" that was a lie.]
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