I got to work from a beautiful conference room in a hospital most of today. When I turned to go home, the maps app told me that the drive would be 20 minutes longer if I returned at that time, due to traffic. So I got a $1 bottomless drink and worked from a Wendy's.
They're playing what I assume are the current "Christian hits." Even when quoting or alluding to Scripture, the songs don't sound at all like Scripture (generally) or the Psalms (specifically). Many of these songs are even unintentionally blasphemous. Musically, the timbre is so indulgent of the self rather than expressive of greater realities. It's been quite the experience (enough to take the time to break from work to post this).
And to listen to it, you would think that man's biggest problem is that his feelings have been hurt and that he feels badly about himself. It occurs to me that American Christianity is ultradistorted, not experiencing "real" suffering like the vast majority of the church throughout the whole of history. And, of course, we are theologically distorted by our ignorance of the immensity either of God's glory or of the evil of the guilt/power/presence of our sin.
