The other day Kim was bringing the boys on one of Nehemiah and Elijah's favorite pastimes - a ride in the van - and then Nehemiah said something...1
Well, let's back-track a little bit. Because of my involvement in the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization called AXiS (I guess I will need to explain what AXiS is in an upcoming post, huh?), I listen to a lot of music on the radio. I listen to try to hear what the new and popular songs are that contain worldview content. For every song that has worldview content, there are about 100 songs that don't have any content worth speaking of. This is not to say that the songs that do have blatant worldview content in them are edifying and easy to listen to.
One of the popular songs that AXiS has used as we have spoken to high school students around the country this year is called Whatever You Like by T.I. (he's a hip/hop artist that is very popular with the kids and the non-kids, too). Whether you have made an attempt or not, you have probably heard this song on the radio in your car, at a bowling alley, at McDonalds, or maybe even at church. Here are some of the lyrics that are appropriate enough to share:
Stacks on Deck
Patrone on Ice
And we can pop bottles all night
Baby you can have whatever you like (you like)
I said you can have whatever you like (you like)
In addition to talking about a very materialistic ideal, this song is very sexual in nature. This exemplifies a hedonistic kind of naturalism.2 With that said, luckily, at first listen, it is very difficult to pick up the sexual tone or lyrics of this song (one good thing about today's hip-hop is that you sometimes have to read the lyrics to actually understand what is being said). Talk about a dark culture...
This post is getting kind of long. If you want to find out what Nehemiah said, check out part 2 of this post.
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