Okay, so John Cooper of the band Skillet put out a statement today responding to critics of their rendition of Ocum Ocumma Manual, which was released a few days ago.

It's got probably by now a million views. When I looked the morning yesterday, it was like at half a million already.

So it was climbing quick.

And there was some pushback online for it.

In fact, there was an article written by Jesse Jackson is the name of the author.

I had to do a double take, but a different Jesse Jackson, who did an article for

churchleaders.com on this controversy.

And I saw it emerge within some of my more conservative Christian circles.

And so I wanted to weigh in on it and make a separation.

I already made an ex post about this, but I just want to make a video about it too.

I think there's a difference between corporate music, sacred music in church, the norm for Christian music, what is normative that aspires to the good, the truth, the beautiful, and then what is a particular specific departure from some of those things in order to communicate

something that is more bombastic and raw and hard and honestly evil.

And the pain associated with death when you lose someone, which I have and many of you

have, if you live long enough, you will, is very visceral.

I know there's times when it feels numb,

but it,

especially when it's a surprise,

when it's someone you love and they die,

it is like your heart's been ripped out of your chest.

And what I think was going on with this rendition of Ocommo,

O'Connell by Skillet,

is they were not intending to create a version to be used in the context of the Sunday service or to be used in church at all or to be sung in a congregational

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