I’m currently visiting my home town, which is very christian and conservative and while that brings its own annoyances, I’m currently sitting in a coffee shop that plays only christian music.
Besides the fact that the music is just kinda bad, slow, etc, a string of worship songs has gotten an almost ptsd reaction out of me. It’s not that big of a deal since I have my own headphones and whatnot, but I didn’t realize how much aggravation I’d feel when listening to it for extended periods. I’m not very good at describing it, but I figured I’d share this since I haven’t been in the situation since I left town.
Try watching Righteous Gemstones on HBO.
I avoided it forever because I thought it’d be “about” Christianity, but it’s just an excellent absurdist comedy that takes place in a fictional megachurch.
They have a mix of real and fictionalized Christian music and it was honestly really fun to see levity brought to that world without it being some over-cooked anti-religion angle.
We’re watching it right now (mid season 2) and what a great show it is. It’s less about the Christian stuff and more about how bad these people are, despite being a rich megachurch family. You find their humanity endearing, but then they go and do absolutely awful things that tracks with what you think that kind of self-absorbed person would be like.