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3 April 2006 by Eve
On Sean’s “Study: Praying Won’t Affect Heart Patients,” MoeHammered posted a comment recounting his experiences battling cancer as a very young man, and in describing what helped him get through to recovery, mentioned among other things, “Just self-actualized focus and personal commitment to living strong and healthy. And plenty of heavy metal.” (My emphasis)
Shortly after reading and replying to his comment, I had to drive out on an errand; my car radio, which is always on, happened to be tuned to the local hard rock station, which just happened to be playing a heavy metal song (sorry, it was new, and I didn’t catch the band).
Next thing I knew, I had flashbacked (is that a word?) to the inevitable “rock-’n'-roll-is-the-Devil’s-music” sermon I’d gotten as a teen in Bible Study. It seemed so ironic that music I was once warned against as being all things dark and negative was music I still enjoy today, and music that actually helped someone through a really tough time in life. Thinking of turning it into a post, and wanting to try out the instructions Sean sent us for using Flickr, I Googled “Satan’s music” in an Images search.
And found this gem of a list of links
Some snippets I focused on:
“(Journey through the dark side of rock as Hell’s Bells unmasks the message behind the music. There you will look squarely into the face of something beyond the human potential - the spiritual power of rock and roll.)”
“Perverted Teen Idols (If you think Ozzy or Marilyn Manson are the only threats to your child, think again.)”
[About a link to a story on Queen's Freddie Mercury:]“…He had such a beautiful voice, but used his talents for the devil. How sad! How tragic! Where is Freddie Mercury now? Hell!)”
And that’s just for starters, folks! Enjoy your trip to the “dark side of rock;” I’m planning to have more later.xxx long movie clips freemovies raylene freeass funny moviesgay fucking moviesplayer movie gbagirl on girl moviesmovies hunting girlsmovies xxx hardcore Map
3 April 2006, on 5:43 pm
My apologies; I don’t know why the link won’t work. I’m trying to fix it…
3 April 2006, on 6:46 pm
Amy Grant? Johnny Cash? do do do do..do dododo. You have just entered the twilight zone. I love you guys and gals. Keep it coming.ROTFLMAO.
3 April 2006, on 6:51 pm
With a little magical help from GifS’ own leprechaun, the links are fixed!
It’s really funny that these people object to even “xian” music like Amy Grant; who knew she was a closet satanist?
3 April 2006, on 9:10 pm
Well, I will agree with them on one thing. Britney Spears is definitely the spawn of Satan in my book.
I thought everyone knew that all those death/black metal bands of the 80’s/90’s were merely using Satan as a marketing tool to sell records to rebellious teenagers. I didn’t really think anybody took them seriously. I mean, come on, look at their album covers. It is obvious they don’t even take themselves seriously.
4 April 2006, on 12:34 am
Freddie Mecury? How dare they say Freddie Mercury is in their fictitious hell? The man was a beautiful human being and could sing and rock harder than any straight man alive.
Fuckhead freak says:
Freddie Mercury spent weeks planning his own funeral, [he was a Zoroastrian], but failed to prepare his soul to meet God. The Word of God plainly teaches that ONLY through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can anyone go to Heaven. Freddie Mercury placed in faith in false religion, and NOT upon Jesus Christ. This is so tragic! Read the following phrase from the above article again, “Zoroastrian priests, dressed in white muslin robes and caps, chanted traditional prayers to their god Ahura Mazda, also known as the Wise Lord, for the salvation of the singer’s soul.” Freddie Mercury is not in Heaven according to the Bible, he is in Hell suffering. Why? Because he was a homosexual? No! It’s because Freddie Mercury did not obey the Gospel of Christ…
We’ve said it before and MoHammered said it so perfectly again today, if this is your gawd and this is how petty and pathetic and small-minded and cruel and needy and sick he is, if I ever saw him on the street, I’d punch him in the teeth.
4 April 2006, on 12:55 am
One time at one of my old jobs, some guy left this manifesto he had written claiming that most rock bands had actually been inspired by Gawd. His main thesis: Gawd had created Phish to be the ulitmate jam band to best spread His message. It was a great read because of all his “logical” arguments. For example, he thought Led Zepplin was inspired by gawd because of the song “Stairway to Heaven.” He also thought the Doors were divinely inspired because he thought (and I’m paraphrasing here) that they referred to “the doors of… Heaven!” Basically, any song title or band name that had even the most remote possibility of being connected to a religious theme was inspired by jizzus.
4 April 2006, on 1:14 am
http://www.answers.com/topic/jim-morrison
The name The Doors came from an Aldous Huxley book, The Doors of Perception, in turn borrowed from a line of poetry by William Blake: “If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite”. A door can be seen as a transition between two worlds; you don’t know what’s going on in the other world until you cross that transition. As Morrison put it, “There are things known and things unknown, and in between are the doors.”
As usual, the theist was simplifying shit to fit his world view.
4 April 2006, on 10:28 am
If hell is good enough for Freddie, it’s good enough for me!
4 April 2006, on 12:19 pm
“The name The Doors came from an Aldous Huxley book, The Doors of Perception, in turn borrowed from a line of poetry by William Blake: “If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite”. A door can be seen as a transition between two worlds; you don’t know what’s going on in the other world until you cross that transition. As Morrison put it, “There are things known and things unknown, and in between are the doors.”
As usual, the theist was simplifying shit to fit his world view.”
It’s amazing what a little research can do. You think more nutjobs would verify the claims in their manifestos.
4 April 2006, on 2:08 pm
Knowing that theists don’t like Queen makes them that much better.
4 April 2006, on 2:58 pm
Sean, thanks for the front-page props on my story; it is always great to get feedback from cool people.
I visit your site to get a breath of fresh, reason-scented air after watching the worldwide Carnival of Theist Whackados on CNN every day.
Bruce - Interesting comment about the metal bands using Satanism as a marketing ploy. Last year, I met Kerry King and Tom Araya (guitarist and singer/bassist for Slayer) at a local rock club. They were quite friendly, and laughed about the crazy, blood-soaked pentagram-loving goat-head-adoration photo shoots of days gone by. They knew, like all the other bands of their ilk at the time, that those photos were going to get them international press coverage.
But pix of four guys with long hair and guitars were hardly going to draw any attention in the 80’s.
The public’s irrational fear of “the devil”, and most teenagers’ fascination with the macabre coupled with a desire to rebel against whitebread xian culture made “satanism” an easy sell.
Marilyn Manson is just the new model of the old machine.
Those fudagelical simpletons are just so easy to rile, and so hilarious in their inapropriate outrage… their theocratic aspirations aside, you’ve almost got to love them. “So stupid they’re cute”.
BTW, if y’all haven’t heard the new Clutch album “robot hive/exodus” you should give it a listen. Groovy and rockin’.
Lyrics like “tipping cows in fields Elysian” and a song with a chorus in binary code - how can you not love it?
Most of the other music I listen to these days is so brutally heavy, I won’t bother mentioning any of it except to say:
“Thrash metal - now an anti-cancer treatment.”
(makes devil-horn hand sign, bangs head)
4 April 2006, on 2:58 pm
I must confess, it was my love of “rock and roll” that turned me onto the path of secular humanism and damnation. The lack of anything other than completely shitty bands associated with the xtians — yes, I include Creed in that statement — blinded me to the true glory of jeebus and his big sky daddy.
You people better watch out for the day that I save up enough for a shotgun so that I can obey them sublibibimalimal messages from Satan.
4 April 2006, on 3:08 pm
Creed sucks.
Pink Floyd eats them alive.
That is all.
4 April 2006, on 3:16 pm
Pink Floyd: best rock band of all time.
Now you’re gonna tell me we have both matching movie collections *and* music collections, Marcus?
4 April 2006, on 3:26 pm
One of the funniest links I pursued from this list was “Perverted Teen Idols (If you think Ozzy or Marilyn Manson are the only threats to your child, think again.)” The writer lambasted the Backstreet Boys, N’Sync, and Britney Spears for corrupting youth with thoughts of and celebration of the joys of - *gasp* - S-E-X!
Apparently he/she was concerned that parents of pre-teens and teens were *only* censoring Ozzy and Marilyn in their homes…
Queen rocks, and Freddie Mercury will live forever in his music.
So does Pink Floyd.
Creed? To be honest, don’t know enough about ‘em to have an opinion.
4 April 2006, on 3:48 pm
I find that the introspective have similar tastes- and bitchin’ awesome fun.
In fact, I’m listening to Rhapsody in Pink right now- awesome.
4 April 2006, on 3:51 pm
Rock on, Marcus!
On that note, I may play my “Hellbilly Deluxe” now for a taste of Rob Zombie in the afternoon - real low, of course. I’m still a covert rebel…
4 April 2006, on 4:09 pm
Zombie is a little difficult for me to write to- a bit too neurally involved. Although Morricone’s The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly soundtrack, might do me some good.
4 April 2006, on 4:11 pm
Whoops, slaughtered the hell outta that sentence with that comma there.
4 April 2006, on 4:27 pm
I like that soundtrack, but my favorite Leone/Morricone collaboration is Once Upon a Time in the West. Leone actually shot the movie around the music. It’s practically an opera. Much beloved by many a cineaste:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_the_West
In fact, this is my all-time favorite Western.
And yes, Eve. It’s a penis movie. For the most part.
4 April 2006, on 4:35 pm
As a femi-whining (but *not* male-bashing) femi-Nazi, I’ve actually got no problem with that.
I’ve even got a favorite quote from two penis movies (one original, one an homage):
“We don’t need no stinking badges!”
4 April 2006, on 6:15 pm
Pink Floyd: best rock band of all time.
Ditto
4 April 2006, on 11:19 pm
MoeHammered Says:
April 4th, 2006 at 2:58 pm e
Sean, thanks for the front-page props on my story; it is always great to get feedback from cool people.
Hey, thank Star. This is her post. But yes, thank you for your great story. You’re a true survivor.
For those who haven’t read it, go here.
4 April 2006, on 11:33 pm
Dean - In think you meant Eve’s story.
4 April 2006, on 11:34 pm
I mean Sean…not Dean…TYPO
4 April 2006, on 11:54 pm
Whoops. Sorry! I did! (sorry, Eve!)
And what a coincidence, Star, I happen to look *exactly* like James Dean!
5 April 2006, on 6:04 am
“Creed sucks.
Pink Floyd eats them alive.”
A-MUTHA-FUCKIN’-MEN to that. The guitar solo on Comfortably Numb is the single greatest guitar solo ever. And I say that as a Stevie Ray Vaughan fan.
5 April 2006, on 6:26 am
Oh, yes. I have heard it a thousand times. Was blown away to go see the kids of School of Rock (the real-life school, now opening classes in many cities thanks the the success the movie has brought them) do The Wall cover to cover one night here in SF.
5 April 2006, on 11:55 am
That site is a treasure trove of comedy. I love the premature death of rock stars chart. Like all Xtian arguments, it’s faulty, flawed and full of anecdotal evidence.
I’m sure Chuck Schuldiner was hoping to die from a brain tumour when he formed Death.
(Funny that he was a totally well-adjusted guy who was terribly close to his loving and supportive family. That’s not one of those stories you often hear in the bios of a lot of xtian artists.)
Metal rules!
5 April 2006, on 4:27 pm
One writer even referred to Patricia Kennealy “Morrison” as “of The Doors” as if she had actually been a member of the band at one time.
Of course, she did “have” a “member” of the band *snickers as thread once again descends into lame genitalia puns*!
5 April 2006, on 4:32 pm
Sean: Whoops. Sorry! I did! (sorry, Eve!)
No problem; like I said, long day…
18 April 2006, on 4:46 pm
[Editor's note: only one word has been changed -- multiple times.]
18 April 2006, on 8:36 pm
Wow - I mean, just - wow.
I *so* see what you guys mean about shitters like this driving by and dropping turds all over the place. Is he five years old, I wonder? “Sorry for being bad?”
Do sheeple like this ever come back to see if we’ve responded?
“Ex-Lax” *giggles*…
19 April 2006, on 12:34 am
I thought it fit with the previous laxative theme.
11 December 2006, on 10:02 pm
I believe Freddie went to heaven. But then who’s to say he didn’t? who’s it for us to judge? God’s the only one who can judge whether we go to heaven or hell, and even so, i belive he did because of how much he gave to everyone. He lived to give to people. It was how he lived - he was a generous man in his own way.