By Ingrid Schlueter
Posted: 08/21/2006

Our Teens Are Inheriting the Wind

Since including references to two Christian rock groups in one of my articles, outraged members of the rising generation have launched a fierce defense of the bands in question. The email equivalent of katyusha rockets have been landing in my in box and in the comments section at the rate of about three an hour for days now. Many, if not most, are angry. "You guys are pathetic. Get a life. Shut this site down!" That sort of thing. Others are somewhat pitiful. "I love you all, really, but ZombiGutz ministers to me. You're hurting my feelings by saying this stuff." Others play the age card. "You're out of touch. You don't have a clue about our generation!! Do your homework." (A little homework on me would reveal that my husband and I have raised three young adult males currently aged 20, 19, and 18 with two more younger children growing up as we speak. We are highly aware of youth culture.)

The one thought that repeatedly came to me while looking over the emails was, "if only this loyalty and energy would appear when Jesus Christ is blasphemed." These kids are fiercely, energetically loyal to their gods of rock and roll. They will nearly riot in defense of their style of music, down to defending a Christian band with the idiotic name, ZombieGutz. But ask them to put down their idols for the sake of the true Gospel, ask them to surrender their brand of music and be separate from the world? Not a chance. They claim they can have both their rock, which was birthed in rebellion, and their God.

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