I think Hank Hill said it best when he said “(Christian musicians) aren’t making Christianity better, you’re making rock and roll worse.”
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So, The “Rhythm of the Saints” isn’t?
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when he sang his syncopated jesus loves me i started to hear it to the tune of sing sing sing and was like oh yeah this is better! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r2S1I_ien6A
I grew up in the Church of Christ, and instruments were frowned upon. This is about as jazzy as it ever got.
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Take 6. 'Nuff said.
Friend of mine has two jobs - math professor and classical music composer. He is also a devout Christian (who has been trying to convert me since we were about five. I’ve been trying to convert him to Buddhism for just a few years less). He is the bishop of his local LDS Ward.
I showed him this article. He double facepalmed and shook his head.
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Don’t take his word for it. Harry Anslinger, the tireless crusader against the demon “marihuana” laid out the evils of jazz “music” for us. This is the Real Threat™
“Their satanic music is driven by marijuana, and marijuana smoking by white women makes them want to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and others.”
— Harry Anslinger, Founding Commissioner, The Federal Bureau of Narcotics
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Reckon there is ‘no veil’ on the racism here.
Preaching to the converted 
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maybe he’s thinking it’s the Iambs of God?
Eddie has a bit on this.
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that was the church i grew up in, a capella was all we got. the songbook of my youth proclaimed in its preface that the songs contained no “unscriptural and immoral syncopation.” my mom used to go before covid and she told me the more recent edition of the same songbook had a more modern outlook and even had a few “spiritual-type” songs with syncopation. she said the former song director had little hissy fit about it when they first got them but the younger man who had taken his place just took it in stride and most of the congregation enjoyed some of the “new” songs.
edited to correct spelling. while it would be funny to think of my mother attending the church of christ before “ovid” that seems anachronistic 
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Hmm … I think Irving Berlin had an answer to this sort of nonsense way back
in Nineteen-and-twenty-two:
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There was an old Mike Royo column mocking a minister making this argument, I can’t find a version online, but it was in the Chicago Daily News in November, 1975.
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I prefer to let him know that I consider his comment pretty confused. 
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“And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain…”
– Matthew 27:51
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See my comment about Harry Anslinger and his war on Jazz. They didn’t even try to hide it back in the day.
As for your comment on religious music not sucking… yeah… if the Blind Boys of Alabama don’t move you you have nowhere to go.
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91 comments in and nobody’s posted Miami Sound Machine yet?
For shame, mutants; I am disappoint…
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Is this guy channeling H. S. Ziegler ?
The problem with contemporary Christian music (and Christian writers) is that they tend to focus on being very Christian first, and making good music, or writing good books, second, if that.
Johann Sebastian Bach was not a “Christian composer”, he was a composer and a Christian, and his faith deeply informed and shaped his work, but his main goal was making beautiful music. Similarly, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were no “Christian authors”, they were authors (and scholars) who were Christian, and their religious beliefs are a hugely important part of their works, but their main goal – even when Lewis was writing Christian allegories for children, in the Narnia series – was telling good stories.
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