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Originally Posted by JDWiseman  I feel uncomfortable nowadays when I listen to Bob Marley, for obvious reasons. It just makes me uncomfortable to hear him sing about "Jah" because I know that he's using that name in a way foreign to Christianity. That, and the diatribe in "Get Up, Stand Up" always floats in my mind.
With that caveat, I don't know of any music in the world that can more easily place me in a relaxed, joyful, pleasant mood. My favorite "love song", arguably, is "Is This Love?". Also, "Stir It Up", "One Love", "Three Little Birds", etc, are all wonderful songs. |
I know what you mean, Joshua. I can't help but pick up on his religion and its influence on his music. I think he fits right in with Abraham Kuyper's statement: "Calvinism, on the contrary, has taught us that all liberal arts are gifts which God imparts promiscuously to believers and to unbelievers, yea, that, as history shows, these gifts have flourished even in a larger measure outside the holy circle."
I lived in Jamaica as a boy and I remember vividly travelling through Trenchtown, a brutal neighborhood of Kingston of which Marley speaks in "No Woman, No Cry." His music resonates with me on a human level, as much as I reject the humanistic, Rastafarian themes.
No Woman, No Cry and
Stir It Up are among the most soulful songs I know.
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