So I double checked the rules and this might be so fringe that Mods make me repost in the Meta Thread, but I’d debate that it has as much power to provoke as much civil discourse as a fair number of the normal threads, so I’m posting it here.
Like the title says, The soundtrack from the 1999 animated classic Tarzan is nondenominational gospel music.
The tempo is a bit different than most people would consider gospel music, but if you had someone listen to the soundtrack with no context, they don’t know where the music is from, they don’t know the names of the songs, put the album on shuffle, they might also come to a similar conclusion if they are familiar with gospel music.
Praise, family, community, building and working together, love and friendship, they are the main underlying ideas of the lyrics of the soundtrack and they also mirror the ideas and topics in gospel music if you take away the nuances of God and different way he functions.
The song Son of Man and its parallels with Jesus’ messages is obviously the most prominent under this claim, but all the songs on the soundtrack fall into the same categorization imo.
Thoughts?
It could be gospel regardless of the lyrical themes if it was in the style of gospel music, but it’s not.
The fact that the lyrics are uplifting and have some similarities or allusions to Christian themes doesn’t make it gospel. There’s lots of different genres of Christian music.
There’s also gospel music with anti-theistic and anti-Christian themes.
By nondenominational, do you mean non-Christian? Because non-denominational typically means Christian, but not an official member of a particular Christian denomination.
If you mean non-Christian, then it obviously isn’t non-Christian gospel music because that is a contradiction.
Gospel music is by definition Christian.
Ehhh Son of man is pretty much on the nose for the story dude, Phil Collin’s likely stole some language, but I don’t think anyone would read the below and think it’s about god – even more so it explicitly states that it’s a matter of time and “Though there’s no one there to guide you, No one to take your hand” which would be antithetical to religious songs that shove Jesus into as many cracks as possible.
Oh, the power to be strong
And the wisdom to be wise
All these things will
Come to you in time
On this journey that you’re making
There’ll be answers that you’ll seek
And it’s you who’ll climb the mountain
It’s you who’ll reach the peak
Son of man, look to the sky
Lift your spirit, set it free
Some day you’ll walk tall with pride
Son of man, a man in time you’ll be
Though there’s no one there to guide you
No one to take your hand
But with faith and understanding
You will journey from boy to man
Son of man, look to the sky
Lift your spirit, set it free
Some day you’ll walk tall with pride
Son of man, a man in time you’ll be
In learning you will teach
And in teaching you will learn
You’ll find your place beside the
Ones you love
Oh, and all the things you dreamed of
The visions that you saw
Well, the time is drawing near now
It’s yours to claim in all
Son of man, look to the sky
Lift your spirit, set it free
Some day you’ll walk tall with pride
Son of man, a man in time you’ll be
Son of man,
Son of man’s a man for all to see
I listen to Bach and Händel for fun, and in general to a lot of organ music and requiems (even if nobody died).
So does Dawkins.
I think you can listen to what you want.
Are you just referring to the lyrics or to the music itself? I could maybe buy the former, but the latter is absurd on its face.