I've moved this down to the non-music sectiobn since it is more a discussion of interpretation of scripture, not about music.
As for sticking his nose in everybody's business, Amos was complaining chiefly about the injustices of the rich, living in luxury and cheating the poor. Within context, the passage doesn't really seem to make sense as a condemnation of improvised music, so I think we're missing a contextual key. He certainly doesn't condemn David for improvising on the harp, so it must be something about the way the rich people of Judah did their music - maybe drunken and naked or something like that.

And John, I said that "people who try to prove the absolute truth of all aspects of everything written in the Bible" are incapable of abstract thinking. I didn't think your were THAT extreme in your interpretation of scripture. Are you?

If you read the Book of Genesis as a news report and fail to see the folklore and allegory in it that teaches profound lessons of faith, then perhaps you are incapable of abstract thinking.

-Joe Offer-