{"id":372,"date":"2006-11-01T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2006\/11\/01\/on-the-furore-over-piper-and-rap\/"},"modified":"2006-11-01T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T16:43:00","slug":"on-the-furore-over-piper-and-rap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2006\/11\/01\/on-the-furore-over-piper-and-rap\/","title":{"rendered":"on the furore over Piper and rap"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fundie blogosphere is in a furore over video of a rap performance at John Piper’s church in Minneapolis, with the smiling approval of Piper himself. I first noticed it over at Scott Aniol’s blog here<\/a>, and it created an over 20 page discussion on Sharper Iron in less than a day here<\/a> (I went away for a bowl of cereal and two pages of discussion were added in the 15 minutes I was gone!).<\/p>\n

And there are other comments elsewhere, no need to link to them.<\/p>\n

My view is that music does have an inherent moral quality, just like painting\/literature\/sculpture and all forms of art.<\/p>\n

But my post isn’t about that. Here is what I am seeing: the reaction to this incident clearly shows who the fundamentalists are and the poseurs are. Read through the 20 something pages on SI and you will see who is and who isn’t a fundamentalist out of that group.<\/p>\n

Thanks, JP, you really were a help on this. Perhaps some will get it and stop walking with the compromisers who want to wear the label of fundamentalist but walk the walk of the evangelical.<\/p>\n

Regards,
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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