I havent ran into anyone that just flat out disagrees that hard music
cant be positive or from a Christian perspective. Mostly, they just
kinda sound incredulous and take my word for it (probably cause they
dont want to listen to it long enough to form an opinion.. haha).

I think basically for anyone to say that because it sounds heavy or
angry or whatever and to automatically associate it with being evil
is unfortunate. Judging a book by its cover. Things arent always what
they seem. Thats like listening to some happy sounding pop song and
just assuming they have something good to say, nevermind the fact
that it might be full of sexual innuendo or whatever. To me, music is
absolutely neutral, then when you add the lyrics and heart of it's
writer is when it takes on its meaning.

--- In hardcorechristianmusic@yahoogroups.com, ekimmel
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
> So I fired up the car this morning to warm it up (frost on my car
> this morning in Minnesota) while the wife and I take all the trash
> and recyclables out. She hears my Stretch Arm Strong CD playing
and
> says, "I don't know how you can listen to that hate music.". I was
> absolutely floored. I was in a hurry to get to work so about all I
> could say was "Uhh, yeah. I bought this at the Christian book
store."
>
> This isn't the first time the subject has come up. She's of the
> mindset that any hardcore music can't possibly be Christian or have
> any redeeming value to it. Sharing the lyrics with her doesn't
seem
> to change her mind, either.
>
> Has anyone here had to deal with something like this before? Have
> any ideas?