Scarlett O'Hara

I absolutely adore Jesus Christ Superstar. I performed in the music at high school.

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SATCHMO

Tomorrow Never Knows is easily one of my favorite Beatles songs and I can definitely appreciate such a profound, transcendent experience, with or without the blotter.


As someone who considers myself deeply spiritual, yet not affiliated with any one religion, there is a lot of overtly religious music that I love and appreciate simply because the soul and the energy that is put into it really reflects the human condition.

I love southern gospel and many legendary soul singers got their start singing in church and performing gospel music. In fact the birth of R&B and soul can really be attributed to the blending of blues and gospel. One of my favorite gospel albums is Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace, which is a compilation of some of her live gospel recordings:



And then there's John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, easily one of the greatest jazz masterpieces ever recorded. The entire album is essentially a prayer of praise to god transposed to music, and though there is only one verse throughout the entire album-- A love Supreme repeated over and over throughout the first track-- Coltranes intention and inspiration is manifested throughout the entire album.



Bob Dylan's Slow Train Coming album is definitely not very high ranking among Dylan fans, but I have an appreciation for it Simply because it was quite a unique tangent for Dylan, who found Jesus long enough to record two Christian albums and went back to business as usual (Saved being the other album). The fact that it was produced by the late and legendary Jerry Wexler, a self-professed, "card-carrying, atheist Jew", and featured the legendary Muscle Shoals Horn Section makes it a great album to me.

John Wilkes Booth

Needing art to conform to some particular ideology in order to enjoy it seems like a symptom of brainwashing to me.

Lord Larehip

I have no interest in religion but I am intensely interested in what makes people religious. It's a loophole in our evolutionary programming that's fun to exploit.

Matt Cameron

To put a wee bit of a spin on this, I suppose on balance I am an agnostic, but the act of listening to music itself actually gives me something that 'praying' seems to give to other people.

Between 1995 and 2005 I served in the military, and as a consequence lived a pretty austere life for long periods of time, often thousands of miles from home with people I barely knew.

I found carrying a couple of iPods with my music collection a HUGE comfort, especially when times were tough. No matter where I was or what I was doing, all I had to do was pop in the headphones, select a track, close my eyes, and I could instantly be transported to another time and place!
I found a genuine comfort in music and simple routine.

For me I wasn't about the lyrics or 'message' in a track, but more about 'me', and where I was in life when I first heard that song, that made it sound special.

For me, a piece of music is FAR more powerful than the written word.


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I don't really care much if people include religion in their music if it's done well. If it's something too over-the-top like preachy music or shock-value "satanic" lyrics but terrible quality, yeah I'm not into that. If it's something good I'll listen to it even if it has that type of content, mostly because I enjoy learning about religion and people's beliefs.

Lord Larehip

I first heard this in 1971. I was 12 and whipped on pot and acid in my room laying on my bed and the visuals the chemicals were supplying were not so very different from this--just a lot more "electric" if you know what I mean.


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artemis

I'm agnostic...leaning towards atheist and enjoy some religious music, ie Amazing Grace / Jesus Christ Superstar

do not like anything like Hillsong etc... can see its purpose for those who are into that stuff.

Arya Stark

In Kanye's "Jesus Walks" he talks about how his music won't get played if it talks about Jesus and God, which is interesting because you don't often hear music like that on the radio.
Ironic enough, the song was extremely popular.

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Dulce

My mom's friend has told me that the music I listen too is "Satanic". So in my defense, I didn't bother saying nothing about her religious beliefs. That's how Jesus Christ taught me how to be humble torwards his people. God can only judge me. Period. Seriously. sorry.