Loud music - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 17 Dec 2015 02:12:38 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Loud music - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Ear-splitting church music destroying ears https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/12/18/80001/ Thu, 17 Dec 2015 15:50:12 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=80001 When the noise is more painful than joyful, when the noise is an ear-splitting worship band and the decibels are raising the roof rather than the spirit, sensitive Christians are hurting and complaining. "People are asking if this is going to make us all deaf?" says Tauranga Hearing Association's resource co-ordinator Jo Sykes told SunLive. Read more

Ear-splitting church music destroying ears... Read more]]> When the noise is more painful than joyful, when the noise is an ear-splitting worship band and the decibels are raising the roof rather than the spirit, sensitive Christians are hurting and complaining.

"People are asking if this is going to make us all deaf?" says Tauranga Hearing Association's resource co-ordinator Jo Sykes told SunLive.

"They say it's like being at a rock concert every Sunday."

Once upon a time, churches played the sedately pipe organ, choir and hymns, but today it's guitars, keyboards, drums, vocalists - all electrified and amplified and potentially damaging. Continue reading

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