{"id":34,"date":"2009-08-27T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T09:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2009\/08\/96-playing-guitar-praise-in-lieu-of-guitar-hero.html"},"modified":"2009-08-27T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T09:21:00","slug":"96-playing-guitar-praise-in-lieu-of-guitar-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2009\/08\/96-playing-guitar-praise-in-lieu-of-guitar-hero.html","title":{"rendered":"#96 Playing Guitar Praise in lieu of Guitar Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_RoFf0W8nCJo\/SpaypZYy72I\/AAAAAAAABnI\/wxf1Xv-_j9c\/s1600-h\/guitarpraise5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;width: 400px;height: 315px;text-align: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_RoFf0W8nCJo\/SpaypZYy72I\/AAAAAAAABnI\/wxf1Xv-_j9c\/s400\/guitarpraise5.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Christian culture needed an alternative to the degenerate Guitar Hero, so they made their own version. Now you don&#8217;t have to pretend to play guitar along to secular music. With Guitar Praise you can pretend to play guitar along to Christian music that has been run through Auto-Tune and injected with silicone.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RoFf0W8nCJo\/Spay0D-GSfI\/AAAAAAAABnY\/4gkl4vGAI-g\/s1600-h\/guitarpraise2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;width: 400px;height: 298px;text-align: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RoFf0W8nCJo\/Spay0D-GSfI\/AAAAAAAABnY\/4gkl4vGAI-g\/s400\/guitarpraise2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Guitar Praise lets you &#8220;rock out&#8221; to contemporary Christian songs that each sound like a Creed\/Jonas Brothers mash-up. The website for Guitar Praise says &#8220;You&#8217;ll soon be rockin&#8217; with the best while praising the Lord!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_RoFf0W8nCJo\/Spayv2yMd7I\/AAAAAAAABnQ\/U_Obat2e2N0\/s1600-h\/guitarpraise4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;width: 400px;height: 300px;text-align: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_RoFf0W8nCJo\/Spayv2yMd7I\/AAAAAAAABnQ\/U_Obat2e2N0\/s400\/guitarpraise4.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Christian culture&#8217;s idea of &#8220;rockin'&#8221; is as questionable as their definition of the word &#8220;best.&#8221; Rather than violate your soul with secular music, violate your senses with this! Is God glorified by the Christian-ifying of video games? Christian culture seems to think so. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian culture&#8217;s idea of &#8220;rockin'&#8221; is as questionable as their definition of the word &#8220;best.&#8221; Rather than violate your soul with secular music, violate your senses with this! Is God glorified by the Christian-ifying of video games? 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