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A 90’s Ska Band Has the Best Metaphor for Christianity
With it being “Holy Week / Passion Week / The Week Before Easter” at the time of publishing this, I thought I’d write a little snippet about my faith.
I’ve been a Christian since I was in elementary school. Over the years, my faith has “wavered” a lot. Faith and doubt have always coexisted in my life. Sometimes it’s 90/10, other times it’s 10/90. But just like the questioning is always there, so is the belief. There have been different anchors for my faith, from individuals to books to movies. One of those anchors is music.
Christian music has always been…cheesy. On one end of the spectrum, you have the super-spiritual bands that recycle the same churchy phrases everyone uses. On the other end, you have the “bands who are Christians” and write very vague and abstract lyrics that can sort of be about God if you think about it hard enough, but they really just wanted to be in the Christian book stores and Christian radio. In any case, the actual music was always an imitation of what was popular in the “secular” world about 5 years before.
Ok, enough mocking Christian music.
There were a few gems in the mix though, and one of my favorites was a less well-known and…
