Church Music Director Resigns over Jazz

[Randy Twizzle]

OK, so it happened in 1932 and the music involved probably wasn't what we would call jazz, but it's still a damn good story.

[Jazzmoose]

Must have been from a more enlightened age; they'd lynch Rowsey today...

[jazzypaul]

It's quite ironic that you put this up, especially lately. I've been looking over a couple of sites that I stumbled onto that feed into this perfectly.

absolutely whacked-out fundamentalist whackjob site #1

and

absolutely whacked-out fundamentalist whackjob site #2

One of them claims that rock is the devil's music and claims that rock music's drumbeat is the polyrhythmic beat of ancient african rituals which brought forth demons. The other one goes further and essentially says that any music that has syncopation is evil, and that the only good music for God fearing people are classical music and marches. Anything with a backbeat is purely for carnal pleasure. The second site even has a broken (unfortunately) link that claims that black gospel music is evil because buddhists like it.

Never has anything been so sad and so entertaining at the same time.