"and if it is played in a forest where nobody can hear it, is it really Christian Folk?"

John, that reminds me of the book I'm reading. It's an account of growing up in a polygamous Mormon society, long after the official Mormon church forbade it.

Evidently some of the fundamentalist Mormon continue(d) practicing it on the basis of their belief that God not only sanctions it but requires it.

They have been pursued and harassed by both secular and religious factions ever since. At times the fundamentalists met in the forested mountains, about the only place they felt free to be themselves.

It's very interesting. Brings home the fact that our beliefs, being so different, so contradictory, can hardly be defended, even if we can define them.