In a move that shocks nobody the Anglican church in Jamaica have inserted Reggae songs into their hymnal to be more contextual to their audience. On one hand I'm all for the move of taking popular cultural songs and making them worship songs, assuming it can be done. The words of a song make it 'Christian' not what some right-wing evangelical fundamentalist says. However, if all you can remember about Marley are the times you were high and his contempt for the church then maybe the church should have reconsidered.

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What I'm particularly interested in is not the Bob Marley additions but what Americans are saying about it, stay at home moms and dads spouting off their theological jargon (See the first comment here).

So the church has never been influence by its surrounding culture? HAHA, what a chump. Listen, on one hand they have a point; what next, Nirvana? But on the other hand it's very post-modern and if I could slip in U2 or Bob Marley you'd just call me Pentecostal not apostate. Oh and by the way, how is it that hymns written by Baptist's or Lutheran's (from bar songs no less) qualify as ordained from God but reggae isn't? Hypocrites.

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