Making music can be a spiritual experience, assuming the artist who's crafting the song or album is tapping into their creativity and not making something considered cookie-cutter. So, it's not uncommon for musicians to find religion at some point . Just ask Yusuf Cat Stevens , who walked away from his music career in 1977 after converting to Islam .

Sometimes a religious experience is a return to the artist's faith; other times the change is brand new and discovered for the first time in the throes of adulthood.

There are some cases, however, where it seems artists have abandoned their new-found faith, or they've been accused of doing so and chose to explain themselves.

David Bazan

David Bazan, who grew up Pentecostal, and fronted the indie Seattle rock band, Pedro the Lion, w

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