“American Idol” waded into religious waters – at least partway – Wednesday night when the eight finalists on Fox’s reality TV show closed out the “Idol Gives Back” fundraiser singing “Shout to the Lord,” a contemporary Christian worship song by Darlene Zschech.

As RealityTVmagazine.com pointed out, the move could be considered controversial in at least two ways:

1. Singing a Christian song might be offensive to non-Christians.

2. Singing a Christian song and changing the words “My Jesus, My Savior” to “My Shepherd, My Savior” might be offensive to Christians.

The singing of the Christian song followed a previous night of “American Idol” that had an “inspirational” theme that included more feel-good songs than religious ones.