Before you get religious and start praying remember, Choral music is way more likely to lead to shame and irreversible damage - just ask a choirboy.
If you are under twelve just watch where you are kneeling when you start praying a whole bunch. That genre and environment is rampant with all the negative terms you just mentioned - lawlessness, lack of decency, shame, irreversible damage - who is their hero?
It all has little to do with the material and everything to do with the environment they grow up in. Take the music away and the gangs will go away? This is like saying watching the Soprano's is is going to cause a crime wave.
I would feel much safer sending my son to a hip-hop concert than to choir practice - and I mean that.
If you are under twelve just watch where you are kneeling when you start praying a whole bunch. That genre and environment is rampant with all the negative terms you just mentioned - lawlessness, lack of decency, shame, irreversible damage - who is their hero?
It all has little to do with the material and everything to do with the environment they grow up in. Take the music away and the gangs will go away? This is like saying watching the Soprano's is is going to cause a crime wave.
I would feel much safer sending my son to a hip-hop concert than to choir practice - and I mean that.