It's amazing how a post that supposed to be an invitation to those that have religious beliefs to discuss how it influences their music and their attitude to music gets completely ransacked by people who openly accept they don't have any religious belief or who are anti religious.

Nigel put a sticky thread at the top of the forum specifically to deal with this . For peace sake read it and if it applies move on ! And I say that respectfully to those that have contributed perhaps Inappropriately so far .

We are four pages in to this topic and not one post has actually been about the topic.

So I will say this, I was brought up in a religious household and music and worship was always conjoined. So much of my attitude towards music has come from my religious upbringing. However I completely can relate to those that still feel a "spiritual connection " to great music even in a secular environment. There is no rational mind that can be used to explain why a Series of notes or chords or rhythms can affect different people in so many different ways. But as a musician that has an awareness of the impact that music can have on people for both good and negative, I make sure that I have thought about what I'm going to play how I'm going to play and who I am playing to whenever I am asked to play . I believe that the instinct of being musically creative comes from God. I don't know of any other species that specifically uses music to encourage and uplift and motivate by intention or accident .

I would be interested to hear other peoples contributions ......on this topic .

God bless .

Worth