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There is not "compatability" question implicit to this pairing. What made the simple folk songs of the ancient heathens "compatible" with their practices? Nothing. Musical taste is a damned subjective thing and any magics woven through it as personal as the one voice who sings them.
Rather, and strangely, it is Christianity who probably has the most wise response to this behavior! (Hey, even a broken clock is right twice a day!) Christians have fought witht he spectre of "youth culture" invading their theology now for quite a few years. "Extreme" trends which tried to tie skater culture and heavy metal culture with Christianity tried to propagate their memes through those chosen mediums.
The problem for them was that people grow intellectually with time and move on from the boring ruins of what once made their blood to pump, their bodies grow older and cannot climb the same hills no matter how willing the heart may be. And if you tie the concept of what is sacred into these mostly frivolous matters then it too has a tendency to be lost with time.
Spirituality is not a fad. The edifying, nourishing stream of all the animate universe is not of your favorite music. While animist religions do not make the same types of distinctions between the natural world and the "supernatural" world as monotheists do, that does not mean everything you enjoy is inherently holy!
Learn to set aside that which is holy! This is the point of vestments and altars, music set aside specifically for solemn practices, and sacred ground; to demark and set aside these things as something special to train the broad and wandering attentions of the human mind into a single, sacred focus for a time.
If you are going to participate in a religion, and I do mean ANY religion at all, you are going to have to accept that "nothing is sacred" is a lie at some point and act accordingly. Self discipline is not fun, but a measure of it in every day is as essential as a measure of frivolous fun is! And the two, by definition, need to be separated.Post too long. Click here to view the full text.