Christian prog vs secular prog

Angelo wrote: Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:   Sorry to disagree Tristan, but Kansas has no Christian relation in Leftoverture (1976), by the contrary this was the ardest time for Kerry in spiritual issues, he reched an almost total disbelief in the next album with songs as Dust in the Wind that almost debnies the existence of anything after life. That's kind of funny - a Dutch Christian radio station used to play Dust in the Wind in a religious music show every Wednessday for almost a year when I was in high school. Guess they had a different interpretation of the lyrics....

K2K: The story that I had always gotten was that, after you left, Kerry had become a Born-Again Christian...   SW: Yes.   K2K: ... and had come upon the realization that "Dust In The Wind, lyrically, was bulls*** because it was anti-Christian, and the fact expressed was that we really are nothing and there is no God and we're just dust in the wind.   SW: Oh man, he was on the 700 Club and they grilled him. It was embarrassing. Oh, it was Pat Robertson sitting right across from Kerry and he said that exact thing. "If you're a Born-Again Christian, how could you write this?" I was sitting there watching it thinking, "S***, I sure am glad that I'm not sitting there."   K2K: But he wrote that before he became Born Again, didn't he? SW: Yes.   K2K: Well then, there's the answer right there. I don't see why they would grill him over it. We all make mistakes. SW: Yes. They're going to gravitate toward anything that's famous.   K2K: So is that part of the reason why he quit the band? SW: The reason was that the lyrics were just getting... Kerry, at that point when he was writing "Dust In The Wind" and "The Wall" and "Carry On My Wayward Son" and all, he was on a journey, man. I was along because he wrote some great stuff. But, once he found himself, I just couldn't empathize with the salvation that he was trying to get me to put across to masses and masses of people. It just didn't fly   http://www.kaos2000.net/interviews/stevewalsh/

It's clear that:

1. Kerry had not became a Christian yet
2. The Christian Fundamentalists attacked him for the lyrics
3. Dust in the wind is not a Christian song, check this phrases:

I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment's gone
All my dreams, pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind.
Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do, crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind

[Now] Don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy.

Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind
Dust in the wind, everything is dust in the

Any guy who believes this is Christian is wacko.

It's great to hear from someone who thinks similarly to myself. I am also a Christian dissapointed with mainstream Christian music.

I think the thing that really irks me is that people think that to be Christian means you have to be happy and nice all the time, and this view is reflected in Christian music. There is reason to feel other emotions. The world is still fallen, Christ himself got angry and upset. It is okay to lament as illustrated in the Psalms and Job in particular.