Faulty Reasoning

Did you hear the one about the:

• Weight-lifter who got disgusted that his weights weren't heavy enough, so he quit his weights and went to lifting single marshmallows?
• The dieter whose salads weren't low enough in calories or fat, so she switched to bacon, French fries and Twinkies?
• The race driver who couldn't get the speed he wanted out of his Lambourghini, so he traded it in on a moped?
• The dental secretary who found her job wasn't sanitary enough, so she went into kennel-cleaning with mud-wrestling on the side?

--Probably not, because none of the above solutions worked to solve their problems. The situations didn't make sense. Still, faulty reasoning exists.

The examples of faulty-reasoning I've recently come across regard some excuses as to why people don't listen to Christian music. People voice that Christian music isn't holy enough, or there are too many "Jesus is my boyfriend" sorts of songs. For those reasons, people still listen to mainstream music, or even switch from Christian music radio to mainstream pop or oldies stations. That makes as much sense as the first four examples of faulty reasoning. There are, however, valid reasons for making a switch, or for not ever going to Christian music.

The most valid reasons for not having Christian music as your music of choice are that you're not Christian and/or you're not seeking spiritual Truths. Granted, the "Jesus is my boyfriend" sorts of songs are only debatably spiritual, if at all. Despite that, they don't condone immorality. They show respect, admiration and loyalty for whomever the singer is really singing to. Too many mainstream songs preach a feel-good philosophy of "I'll be true to you as long as you make me feel good and it's convenient for me." As for spiritual Truth seekers, if you're really looking for Truth, you're looking beyond self-gratification. You've got a nagging feeling that there's something beyond the be-nice-to-one-another-and-the-environment secular humanist religion. You know there's good and evil and that they're opposed to one another. The pleasures of self-fulfillment, getting even, greed, sex and more are the main topics of secular music. To me, these are obvious not-goods. For the most part, mainstream secular music is loaded with those sorts of temporary satisfactions. Truth is eternal. Earthly pleasures are temporary and, therefore, not the goals of a Truth seeker. OK, I threw in an unsupported assumption there. I'll not delve into the eternal aspect of Truth here, other than to claim that it is, and to say that if a so-called "truth" is disproven, it wasn't a truth to begin with. I seem to have written myself into a corner, leaving no graceful transition into my next thought --except to explain my dilemma.

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