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The state of Contemporary Christian music has reached a deplorable new low. I am not a huge fan of disparaging things Christian, but I am a bit shocked at this. Heard on "The Fish," LA's Christian music radio station: what I believe was a remake of Celine Dion's "Because You Loved Me." The only difference? The singer had inserted "Jesus" as a "filler word" in the last chorus. The joke that you could take Christian songs and replace "Jesus" with "Baby" has been actualized, and it's rather disturbing. Celine Dion's song is not a particularly horrible song. In fact, for what it is, it is quite effective. Cheesy lyrics, predictable music, all designed to heighten your emotional state as you dwell on the man (or woman) whom you love so dearly. "Baptizing" it by inserting "Jesus" (a) seems inconsistent with the Christian tradition of "baptizing," which meant something like creating new works of art in an existing form that had Christian content, (b) demonstrates a complete lack of creativity on the part the Christian community, (c) doesn't help anyone escape the association of Celine Dion singing to her man "You were my strength when I was weak..." If their only goal was to help us escape Celine, that might have been beneficial. As it is, it demonstrates that the Christian Contemporary Music scene has reached new lows in creativity. When will Christians wake up and demand tasteful music that has content?