And the reason the US government does is because they have over stepped their GOD given authority over the nation. I thought the tradition of rule by divine right died with the absolute monarchies of Europe. I had more things to say concerning relevancy of old religious law, etc. If I feel a little down, feel like wallowing in pleasant melancholy, I'll put on depressing music - funeral marches, fatalistic lyrics, laments about death and the fundamental cruelty of life. And when I'm happy or energized, I play appropriate music for those moods as well.
Music is very useful as an amplifier of emotion.
At least to me. About CCM - I've sampled some CCM music. Christians are just like everyone else in the things they experience - they fall in love, they have bad days, they feel sad sometimes. Not all songs have to be full of sin and depravity, but not all of them have to have God in them either. Secular artists just tend to encompass more diverse subject matter than their CCM counterparts, and that's why I listen to them overwhelmingly.