Say What?

This is the type of weird stuff that some put forth as teaching:

Fundamentalism traditionally demands a strict moral code when it comes to engaging media. Holiness and a consistent witness notwithstanding, a hard-line "don't taste, don't touch" ethic would seem to dictate that 95 percent of the Bible is inappropriate for daily devotions. For some reason, when we put the same kind of mature subject matter that appears in the very pages of Scripture into a song and discerningly engage with it, it suddenly becomes a moral issue.

It doesn’t interact (or seem to even understand) what fundamentalism actually says, nor does it interact with the reasons that fundamentalism says what it says.

To suggest that fundamentalism believes that 95% of the Bible is inappropriate for daily devotions is, quite frankly, absurd. Furthermore, to suggest that the “mature subject matter” of the Bible is dealt with in popular music the way it is dealt with in the Bible, is past absurd.

Why do people say these kinds of things? And why do people accept this?

This is the type of stuff that masquerades as serious reflection on the believer and modern culture.

While we might disagree on the particular nature and extent of the believer’s use of and involvement in modern culture, surely we can all agree that this type of argument demonstrated above is completely useless since it is uninformed, unthinking, and therefore unhelpful (aside from helping to demonstrate how not to make an argument).