Popular Music on Christianity in the United States: Christianity's Failure to Love
According to some popular musicians in the United States, Christianity has been used to justify exclusion, oppression, and death through its practices, beliefs, and doctrines. Such justification runs contrary to the fundamental bases upon which Christianity is founded. A religion based upon love and...
| Published in: | Journal of religion and popular culture |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2005]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Summary: | According to some popular musicians in the United States, Christianity has been used to justify exclusion, oppression, and death through its practices, beliefs, and doctrines. Such justification runs contrary to the fundamental bases upon which Christianity is founded. A religion based upon love and acceptance, the musicians claim, should not justify the aforementioned; either Christianity redefines its doctrines and their acceptable uses, or society must reject Christianity's championing of fundamentals, such as love, defining these fundamentals in ways truer to their own nature. |
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| ISSN: | 1703-289X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.9.1.004 |