Rock music, either worldly ‘or churchly, is essentially materialistic and sexual. And as Bob Larsen notes, “Christian rock uses the beat and the sound which even the secular world associates with promiscuous SEX.”

The church is hugging to its bosom, therefore, a form of music that will not turn its worshipers to God, but to the genitals, which is exactly What the old paganism did.

Although its lyrics might capitulate to the concept of true worship, the music itself will express an unspoken desire to smash it to pieces. “Christian” rock, therefore. is a form of spiritual fornication.

Phallic religion, whether Baal worship or Moloch, was essentially sexual. For some reason, it seems promiscuity is ever one stop away from religion. Indeed Rushdoony, in his Institutes of Biblical Law accents this very point. He says, “The relationship of sex and religion is thus a real one, it is an aspect of man’s revolt from God. When man turns to self-worship, he ends by worshiping his own sexual vice.”

He also says, “The frequently close connection of sex and religion can be granted; fertility cults are found in every part of the world, past and present. This relationship is, in fact, declared in Scripture to be an attribute of false religion… (Rom. 1:22-25).”

“As one approaches the death of an age,” says Rushdoony, .”man’s sexual activity becomes all the more intensely perversed, because his religious hunger has increased, and sex is his substitute God.”

Rushdoony concludes by saying, “Sex and religion are thus closely and inescapably linked in every nonBiblical faith. It is the religious result of apostasy: man worships his own sexual evils and exalts his disgrace into a way of life.”

Unfortunately, today, Christians are mimicking the rock stars who indeed could pass as high priests of any phallic cult. And although some Christian teens have their eyes open to the evils of the Beatles, Rolling Stones and Jefferson Airplane, they generally have their eyes closed to the Osmonds, Cassidy’s and otherr bubblegum rock stars. Only the most naive, however, can believe that these singers are morally acceptable for Christians.

As Bob Larsen writes, although words like “wholesome” are used to describe the Osmonds, “These words are really a shame, for the, whole performance is based on a crescendo of excitement that amounts to an orgiastic climax not known to the audiences of even some of the heavier rock stars. If the mother is naive enough to think that such idol worship is merely child’s play, one can only feel pity knowing that slick Hollywood promotional agents have groomed these five soul-bubblegum idols into sex symbols with the adolescent record market.”

Referring to David Cassidy of the television series, The Partridge Family, Larsen says, “He readily admitted his involvement in drugs and spoke mockingly of his female fans who after his concerts leave behind thousands of sticky seats.”

And one need only look at a “modern” congregation to see those who are mimicking the new masculinity look — a look originating with the rock subculture. Just a few years’ ago, we spoke of the long-hairs who appeared to have emerged from Central Park Zoo. Today, the “gorilla look” is in the Sunday school and church.

It took barely five years for Christians to accept rock into the Church and even less to accept men who call themselves fathers but Iook like mothers; Jacks who look like jills. It has been one of the slickest coups in church history, and all in the name of not wanting to offend youth. If Christian youth had been told the truth from the start, the Church would not be treading water now. But, of course, in a promiscuous age, there are no blacks and whites.

The Christian long-hairs tell their eiders that the length of hair isn’t an issue. but again only the totally naive and uninformed could fail for Such a ploy. In Jerry Rubin’.s book, Do It, a work which its publisher, Simon and Schuster, says is the “Communist Manifesto of our modern era” Rubin says. “Young kids identify, short hair with authority, discipline, unhappiness, boredom, rigidity, hatred of life — and long hair with letting go, letting your hair down, being free, being open .”

He says, “our hair tells people where we stand on Vietnam, Wallace. campus disruption, dope. We are living television commercials for the revolution. We are walking picket signs.”

Rubin further states, “Man was born to let his hair grew long and to smell like a man. We are descendants from the apes, and we are proud of our ancestry… long hair is the beginning of our liberation from the sexual oppression that underlies this whole military society. Through long hair we are engaged in a sexual assault that is going to destroy the political-economic structure of American society.”

Evangelicals smirked when rock bands brought two strippers dancing down the aisles in liberal churches, but recently in Tulsa, Andre Crouch, at a Wednesday night prayer and praise service, had the worshipers prancing in the aisles.

And Bob Larsen in his work, Rock and the Church, relates an incident Of a rock group from a well-known Midwest Christian university which performs in Southern California during the summer in the following manner:

“The introductory song was Cream’s big acid-rock hit, In the Sunshine of Your Love. It contains lyrics with reference to the sex act that are too crude to repeat. Fortunately this was a completely instrumental version. This group almost out-creamed the Cream. The driving rhythm and brass sections were kept going by not one, but two drummers, each with a complete trap set. For the first half-hour of the performance I waited vainly for at least one tame pop message song. No way. Just lots of good old heavy,’savage rock. At one point a young man from the group led the way with uninhibited frenzy in a dance up and down the aisles. Others followed him. I hadn’t seen anything like this since l left the Far East where I observed heathen self-mutilation and torture rites.”

This rock group, according to Larsen, told the audience “We’re here to tell you of our personal faith in God.” He said this statement was followed by a medley from the atheistic production Hair. Larsen said he waited in vain to hear about their personal faith in God, and in fact, the rock band never mentioned the school they represented which was probably a blessing in disguise for the school.

Of course, I’m sure some will argue that those prancing up and down the aisles were under the control of the Holy Spirit. Someday, the Holy Spirit will have the opportunity to defend Himself, but in the meantime, the Church will continue to sexualize and paganize her youth with “Christian rock.”