@JimmyTheLock
Sure there are other big fish to fry, but secular music prepares people's minds and emotions to go dark.,.. just how the devil likes it!
I missed this post jimmy. So I will address it and take into consideration what you say, because you seemed concerned about us secular music folk.
I listened to the sex pistols, Motorhead and led zep growing up and all the way to Eminem and wham, did it prepare or cause me to die my hair pink, smoke dope, flunk school, visit gay clubs or fight with my neighbours?. There was never I time I prayed back then and said..."my God, what is the cause of all this, my natural sinful nature or the music? But now I am saved and I can now ask, I can at least say for sure that my sinful nature came first because of what the Bible says, and that music
can be an outpouring of the sinful nature, sure, but as for conditioning me, I can only see that it is the LOVE, (or craving) of secular music that would be the root of any sin. Not the music itself.
Pretty much like the wrong saying that money is the root of all evil. it's not. it's the LOVE of money. The craving.
There is a type of music, actually that is addictive to me, and that is the crappy trance music that is repetitive and without lyrics and sends me into a spaced out prayer less and mindless mode that has become fashionable and played at raves. It boots God right out of the picture because it hijacks my Jesus Gene.
Now, if I ever find I am desiring and craving any secular music over Prayer, God and His Word, I hope and pray I will become concerned because I am currently practising to become a music producer.
Blessings brother.