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Originally Posted by OBW
Despite the apparent quick change to something mainstream in Christianity, it was not simple. I fought the LRC tapes running in my head for many years. First it was the music, choir, solos, etc. 10 years later, I noticed that so much of it was gone, but I still hung onto some things as being superior. But now after many more years, I am realizing that the things of the LRC that were worth anything are mostly just acceptable alternatives and in no way superior. And there is so much baggage with it that it is not worth worrying about.
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I have tried to expose myself to what is out there in mainstream Christianity outside the LC, and it didn't take me long to realize that it is not at all like they make it out to be. In the LC I hear generalization made about Christianity all the time, and when I look at how things really are, I realize those generalization are not true at all. I have tried to familiarize myself with some of the Christian music out there. I fail to see how it would be something to be despised. I can state with certainty that I find some Christian music much more beneficial than hymns with 15 verses of LC doctrines.
I know non-traditional music was a big issue when Anaheim and the Great Lakes regions split. I guess people were getting tired of the same old, same old. Wasn't there also a much earlier instance of this attitude with LSM telling Howard Higashi no more writing songs??? As
Terry said, what makes LSM dictated hymns better than anything else? I guess my point is that just by looking outside the LC at what else is out there, I have realized that things were not as I imagined them, but much better.