did u go to church with beyonce? how many tuesdays & thursdays did you spend from 6:30 - 9:30 at choir practice with mr griffin? how many times a week did ur mom & dad make u practice piano/voice for church? was the piano bench in ur home full of the a.m.e or baptist hymnals.....3 different versions cuz every year there were new & improved hymns? how many bus trips did you take traveling all over w/ur church choir ala the gospel chitlin circuit cuz you guys had a reputation for bringing the biggest blackest man to tears with your uplifting voices? how many times have u seen sister johnson on the front row get filled w/the holy spirit while the missionary board has to fan him off of her cuz her & the holy spirit are gonna mess around & knock out the whole first & second pews with all that dancing? how many annual & general conferences have u been to where the choir amassed 150+ voices & heavens gates opened up & u were genuinely moved? which gospel choir in ur church was the best? the youth? the mt. zion ame choir? the senior choir? how many gospel competitions have you been to where the crux of ur life and all those practices depended on you moving the whole entire room to tears & repentance?

what is there to discuss when everything you so grandiloquently stated regarding beyonce's ascendancy was based on suspicion? while beyonce talks about the church without end? this whole shtick is a guesstimate....every frigging article & interview w/regard to ms. knowles church upbringing that i've read seen & heard point to her church. on vh1's driven (which i'm pretty sure u are alluding to, they took a whole 5 minute segment or so & talked about her church upbringing? how would a young man that did NOT grow up in an american black church, place a young woman that did not grow up in NOR was influenced by a black church, discount the said black church's influence on ANY black american singer's that says, on many occasions, on tape & record that god, his son jesus & their cousin the holy spirit are the biggest influence on their lives? ......until you've gone to church 3 times a week forcefully, for 18 years....u keep pulling these theories out ur head, the sky & ur ass to denigrate & besmirch black american church culture & it's huge ass influence on black music yesterday, today & forever in lieu of beholding a golden calf (read: yt girl) on a pedestal. i hope it makes u feel better. the black church would like to send u a big middle finger, but jesus wouldn't like that.