The Bible and Music

This does not have a lot to do with music and the Bible, but I thought I would share anyway. Today, I went to a URC presentation about how different Bible verses affect people’s perspectives on social justice issues (the ones mentioned was the death penalty, protesting, and abortion rights). It was interesting area of research because I never would have never thought about this area of study. Anyway, they had 2 experimental groups – one read a disciplinary verse and the other read a verse of forgiveness. There was then a control group that read a verse with a mixture of these aspects. They then answered a series of questions on a scale of 1 through 5 that asked them about how sympathetic they were toward a cause or hypothetical situation. It was still very early in their research so they have a small sample population, but they found a trend in their data. The people who read the disciplinary verse were more sympathetic than the other experimental group and control group – which is actually the opposite of what I thought would happen. I cannot really think of why this happened, perhaps some psychological trigger.

Anyway, just thought this was interesting