Singer Shei Atkins Ditching Gospel Music to Focus on R&B, Says the "Church Too Judgmental" but is it Really About Money?

Is singer Shei Atkins' decision to leave "gospel music" really about the church being judgmental about her music or is it really about making more money?

CHURCH TOO JUDGMENTAL: Singer Shei Atkins recently said she's ditching the "Gospel" label and will instead embrace R&B because she finds the church too judgmental of her music. Um, it's all about money people! She thinks she can make more money as a R&B singer and she's probably right. You know, I have never heard of Shei Atkins, mainly because I don't listen to that brand of gospel music. I am more a Hillsong type of person.

“The messed up thing about the Christian community is that there is a religious and judgmental mentality inside of it that holds us back and keeps us from loving people when it comes to music,” Atkins recently wrote in a commentary featured on DaSouth.com.

“I can’t sing about life, love, and relationships under the Gospel title. It’s not because I don’t want to. It’s because of the mentality a lot of Christians have about music.” Source

She's right about the hypocrisy in churches today. I can't understand how Bishop Eddie L. Long, senior pastor at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga., can still walk around as though nothing happened in the way of the gay sexual allegations leveled against him by five young black men -- Spencer LeGrande, Jamal Parris, Maurice Robinson, Anthony Flagg and Centino Kemp -- and the congregation act as though nothing happened and still embrace this man? So, yes, on that basis, I do agree the church is teeming with hypocrisy.