[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']For all the Christians Who Think That God Is Good and That Anyone Who Doesnt Follow Him is Damned:
So I guess that in the minds of anyone who believes in god or anything to do with the bible, you picture anyone who listens to heavy metal or watches action or gory movies is sitting around their house in a black cloak, sitting in a circle of candles with a pentagram in the middle of floor and sipping the blood of some animal sacrifice, all while reading from some ancient spell book....and there they are, all spooky looking and chanting, giving praise to this little red guy with horns that has a pitchfork, which he uses of course to poke evil doers in the tushy.
That's hilarious.
I hate to spoil the fun, but no, they are not devil worshipers. Before you label them, let's clear up a couple of misconceptions that you obviously have about them:
-In order to be a "devil worshiper", one must believe in a devil. If they were devil worshipers, they would have to believe that somewhere in this vast universe, there is really a place filled with molten rocks and weeping lost souls that are being eternally tormented by a horned beast that wields farm equipment. Now what do you suppose the devil does with that pitchfork? I mean, obviously there must be a lot of hay to be collected in hell...I mean, why else would he have a pitchfork? To be a fill-in actor for Green Acres? What were they smoking when they wrote that!?
-The devil is a fictional character dreamed up by some apostle or religious nut thousands of years ago to keep little kids from acting up and to create fear in adults who couldn't behave by themselves. Some people need fear to be civilized; WE are NOT those kind of people. We know right from wrong without having to have an imaginary half-man/half-goat or a bearded man floating in the clouds to instill fear in us. We are also content in embracing the real truth about the universe:
NO ONE KNOWS WHO CREATED IT, HOW IT IS GOING TO END, OR WHAT IT ALL MEANS. NO ONE.
Anyone that tells you that they DO know, such as religion or "self-help" cults is either lying to you to get your money, lying to you for political power or to oppress you, both, or just brainwashed and too scared to accept the fact that no one has developed the technology yet to calculate every possible item in the universe; much less tell you how it started, who made it, or why.
-To be a devil worshiper implies that we "worship." We don't worship. If there is something out there that made us and is watching us, Im betting that he didn't make us to lay around groveling on our knees for forgiveness, or to profusely thank him over and over again for what he has created. I mean, seriously, if you created people, would you really be that pompous to make your creations cower in fear, and constantly thank you for everything? If there is a god, I don't think he is a self-centered attention hog that wants constant praise and incessant cries of his name. That's just plain [wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth]ed up. So, no, we don't "worship." Worshiping is for slaves; we arent slaves. So do we worship the devil? Of course not. Why would we waste one moment of our time giving our lives to fictional character? We would never pray to Mickey Mouse, never give offerings to the Terminator, never fall to our knees and thank the Three Little Pigs for blessing us, and likewise, we would never worship ANY fake deity from any ancient or modern book. That means all of them. Worshiping ANYTHING at all signifies weakness, a fundamental lack of self-honesty, logic, and basic reasoning skills, and an inability to deal with the truth.
-Just like the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, elves, Zeus, Odin, Thor, Jesus Christ, ghosts, psychics, little green men, fairies, Allah, specters, spooks, and many more... the devil is a fairy tale. People stopped believing in fairy tales when they were kids. We only believe in real things- things that are verifiable, and tangible, and if not clearly visible, then detectable using spectrometry, remote sensing satellites, or any other known means of phenomena detection and analysis at the very least. We do not concern ourselves with books that were written over 2,000 years ago by primitive people (a talking snake in the Garden of Eden, a boat with ALL the animals on it, a talking bush on fire----sounds like someone was on crack when they wrote that. And a virgin having a baby? Im sorry but everyone above the age of 10 knows thats impossible) nor do we believe in any of the goofy fairy tales of our own era, like real haunted houses, visions, or any other stupid, fake concepts that people develop to create a stir, to draw attention, or simply fool you. All of these myths are fun stories, especially the ones about Odin and Thor- they were pretty awesome, but they are just stories. Just like any story Ive read, I realize it is just a story, written by a guy just like me, except the guys that wrote them claimed to be "divinely inspired."
We don't worship the devil. So what if we listen to "Devil Music"? So what if I listen to ANY KIND OF MUSIC!!!!? It is just listening to music for crying out loud. Since when is that a crime? I mean, it is just a cd. It isn't a bomb, or a gun, or a torture device....it is a stinking' cd; completely incapable of harming ANYONE EVER. Furthermore, the devil isn't real. The people who write "Devil Music" know that-- and they are all having a big laugh right now too. Why do you think they write "Devil Music"? Because they get a big kick out of how seriously people take mythology of course, and most importantly, to generate album sales. There is no such thing as bad publicity, and publicity gets you sales. Nothing sells more albums than for Bill O'Reilly to talk about how inappropriate an album is. The moment that some Fox News reporter warns the parents about how "detrimental, evil, vile, and disgusting" an album is, that album instantly sells 1 million copies. You know, now that I think about it, they might be in on it---getting their piece of the cash by publicly denouncing a band, thereby getting them rich. Either way, despite any artist's motives in creating music, I just like music. I don't care which fake god or devil or boogeyman it represents, sings about, or promotes, or what brainwashed lunatic wrote it for that matter....I just love heavy music, and I will continue to listen to it until the end of time. Any form of music that displays supreme musical skill, whether it be beauty, speed, complexity, heaviness, or otherwise, can talk about whatever it wants to and have anything it wants on its album cover. We listen to Christian bands too, you know. Like Living Sacrifice, Zao, Stretch Armstrong, and other really heavy bands that any Christian would mistake as "Devil Music" no doubt. These bands are seriously heavy, fast, and chaotic- just like we like it- but they have Bible verses and New Testament stories for lyrics. Doesn't affect us at all; like I said, we just like music. They don't care who they are praising. They can praise Gomer Pyle for all I care.
But lets face the facts here. I read the bible. All of it. I actually attempted to believe it and follow it as a child. According to the Malachi verse, failing to tithe is robbing from god. Well, I'm no scholar, well, um, yes I am,...er...well, let me just try that again. I am a scholar, and I say that god wants 10% of your earnings, and failing to do what god wants gets you put into hell. Christian lives are meant to be spent honoring god in every way that he has set forth in the bible. It says so very plainly throughout the bible, and to be a true Christian, you must obey the bible. Period. Just like the laws of the United States must be obeyed to stay out of jail, the laws of the bible must be obeyed to stay out of hell. You can't just pick and choose. Thus, you can give yourselves partial credit for pushing most of Americas youth away from Christianity by forcing our youth to become the [wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth] of some all powerful being, if theres one thing that our youth hate its being oppressed, not listened to or being having their opinion brushed aside as if it means nothing because Youre the Parent and Their the Child; that is the one phrase that is said constantly and is what [wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth]es our youth off so much that they go and gun down 15 to 20 people at school and all those people whove done that have either had a [wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth] home life or their parents were to stuck up full of themselves that they refused to listen to their children. If you think people like us are [wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth]ed up then get out your bible and read some of these verses:[/FONT]
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']Isaiah 45:7- "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things."[/FONT]
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Now explain to us how that if the bible says about 5000 times that everything god does is good, then why did he CREATE evil? Because all he is is just figment of some 12 religious nuts imaginations. Can you tell me what MIRICALES have happened in the past 500 years? EXATLY, YOU CANT BECAUSE GOD DOESNT EXIST EXEPT FOR IN THE MINDS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE TO WEAK TO GO THROUGH LIFE WITHOUT SOMETHING TO CLING TOO BECAUSE THEY CANT RELY ON THEMSELVES TO CREATE THEIR OWN PURPOSE IN LIFE RATHER THAT HAVING THEIR SO CALLED GOD DO IT FOR THEM. THEY ARE TO WEAK TO SPIRITUALLY GET UP OFF THEIR ASSES AND GIVE THEMSELVES A SPIRITUAL PURPOSE IN LIFE.
[/FONT][FONT='Times New Roman','serif']--In Judges 21:10-24, Numbers 31:7-18, Deuteronomy 20:10-14 God allows murder, rape, and sexual slavery.
All the soldiers in Midian were instructed by Moses, who was guided by God of course, to kill all the women who had been with a man before, and to keep all the virgins for themselves. It gets worse:[/FONT][FONT='Times New Roman','serif'][/FONT]
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']Deuteronomy 22:28-29- "If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her."[/FONT]
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[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']So a guy can rape a girl, as long as he pays the father, and then the poor girl has to marry the rapist!?!? And you cal US devil worshippers. [/FONT]
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']Oh and of course thats not your loving god.[/FONT]
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There are tons of other verses where rape is okay, one of the worst being Exodus 21:7-11 where it tells that a girl sold into slavery will not be released at the same time as the male slaves. (Side Note- By the way, um, slavery is okay?? God seems to think so. Who are we to question him?) If the girl doesn't satisfy her captor, she can be bought back. Are you kidding?
I could go on with these forever. God tells people to kill their children, their parents, gay people, and non-believers, pretty much anybody that doesn't follow all the rules. You may as well have been buying your children Cannibal Corpse or Judas Priest albums. There are more verses involving condoned murder and human sacrifice in the bible than I could ever list in a night. [/FONT]
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']"Brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death".[/FONT]
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif'] (When Jesus comes back, brothers will kill brothers, and parents and children must kill each other!?!?!? We are not supposed to listen to "devil music", but we can go to church, and bible school, and be considered perfectly normal, despite the fact that the bible is far more brutal; more twisted, and features more murder, rape, slavery, torture, and promotion of crimes against families and children than any album any of us have ever owned. You couldn't fit the bible's worth of evil onto one CD.[/FONT]
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']"Don't imagine that I came to bring peace on earth! No, rather a sword lf you love your father, mother, sister, brother, more than me, you are not worthy of being mine!!!" No, that wasn't Metallica, Slayer, Ozzy or Cannibal Corpse....that was Jesus. Yep, that same prince of peace, all loving, all good so called son of god. But don't be confused, he came with a sword to rip your family apart. And you thought our music was bad....
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Just because we listen to a song about demons doesn't make us demons. Just because you listen to a song about harlots doesn't make you a harlot. It's that simple. We don't believe in fairy tales, and we certainly don't conduct our lives around song lyrics, which is what you are implying by calling people like us "devil worshipers" by listening to the music that we do. Believe it or not, we are a rational, intelligent, logical human beings with the capacity for good ethics and kindness using our own decision making skills and critical thinking. We don't have to follow anyone else's goofy beliefs. We don't have to have an imaginary being, god or Satan, to guide us through life. We am comfortable embracing the truth and realizing that life is unexplainable at this point. No one knows the answers, good or bad, and I am not about to swallow any fantasy story about it.
In closing, I hope you truly realize that people like us are not Satanist, Demonic or Devil Worshppers. However, if it helps you to sleep at night, you can go ahead and believe that were all evil devil worshipers, and were fine with that too. Its actually quite amusing.
So anyway, I gotta go. All the candles are going out in my "Black Magic Circle" and I can't really see the goblet of blood since it is getting so dark, so I have to hurry up and give the Invocation of Chthulhu before the blood moon passes and awakens the werewolf. Hail Satan![/FONT][FONT='Times New Roman','serif'][/FONT]
So I guess that in the minds of anyone who believes in god or anything to do with the bible, you picture anyone who listens to heavy metal or watches action or gory movies is sitting around their house in a black cloak, sitting in a circle of candles with a pentagram in the middle of floor and sipping the blood of some animal sacrifice, all while reading from some ancient spell book....and there they are, all spooky looking and chanting, giving praise to this little red guy with horns that has a pitchfork, which he uses of course to poke evil doers in the tushy.
That's hilarious.
I hate to spoil the fun, but no, they are not devil worshipers. Before you label them, let's clear up a couple of misconceptions that you obviously have about them:
-In order to be a "devil worshiper", one must believe in a devil. If they were devil worshipers, they would have to believe that somewhere in this vast universe, there is really a place filled with molten rocks and weeping lost souls that are being eternally tormented by a horned beast that wields farm equipment. Now what do you suppose the devil does with that pitchfork? I mean, obviously there must be a lot of hay to be collected in hell...I mean, why else would he have a pitchfork? To be a fill-in actor for Green Acres? What were they smoking when they wrote that!?
-The devil is a fictional character dreamed up by some apostle or religious nut thousands of years ago to keep little kids from acting up and to create fear in adults who couldn't behave by themselves. Some people need fear to be civilized; WE are NOT those kind of people. We know right from wrong without having to have an imaginary half-man/half-goat or a bearded man floating in the clouds to instill fear in us. We are also content in embracing the real truth about the universe:
NO ONE KNOWS WHO CREATED IT, HOW IT IS GOING TO END, OR WHAT IT ALL MEANS. NO ONE.
Anyone that tells you that they DO know, such as religion or "self-help" cults is either lying to you to get your money, lying to you for political power or to oppress you, both, or just brainwashed and too scared to accept the fact that no one has developed the technology yet to calculate every possible item in the universe; much less tell you how it started, who made it, or why.
-To be a devil worshiper implies that we "worship." We don't worship. If there is something out there that made us and is watching us, Im betting that he didn't make us to lay around groveling on our knees for forgiveness, or to profusely thank him over and over again for what he has created. I mean, seriously, if you created people, would you really be that pompous to make your creations cower in fear, and constantly thank you for everything? If there is a god, I don't think he is a self-centered attention hog that wants constant praise and incessant cries of his name. That's just plain [wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth]ed up. So, no, we don't "worship." Worshiping is for slaves; we arent slaves. So do we worship the devil? Of course not. Why would we waste one moment of our time giving our lives to fictional character? We would never pray to Mickey Mouse, never give offerings to the Terminator, never fall to our knees and thank the Three Little Pigs for blessing us, and likewise, we would never worship ANY fake deity from any ancient or modern book. That means all of them. Worshiping ANYTHING at all signifies weakness, a fundamental lack of self-honesty, logic, and basic reasoning skills, and an inability to deal with the truth.
-Just like the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, elves, Zeus, Odin, Thor, Jesus Christ, ghosts, psychics, little green men, fairies, Allah, specters, spooks, and many more... the devil is a fairy tale. People stopped believing in fairy tales when they were kids. We only believe in real things- things that are verifiable, and tangible, and if not clearly visible, then detectable using spectrometry, remote sensing satellites, or any other known means of phenomena detection and analysis at the very least. We do not concern ourselves with books that were written over 2,000 years ago by primitive people (a talking snake in the Garden of Eden, a boat with ALL the animals on it, a talking bush on fire----sounds like someone was on crack when they wrote that. And a virgin having a baby? Im sorry but everyone above the age of 10 knows thats impossible) nor do we believe in any of the goofy fairy tales of our own era, like real haunted houses, visions, or any other stupid, fake concepts that people develop to create a stir, to draw attention, or simply fool you. All of these myths are fun stories, especially the ones about Odin and Thor- they were pretty awesome, but they are just stories. Just like any story Ive read, I realize it is just a story, written by a guy just like me, except the guys that wrote them claimed to be "divinely inspired."
We don't worship the devil. So what if we listen to "Devil Music"? So what if I listen to ANY KIND OF MUSIC!!!!? It is just listening to music for crying out loud. Since when is that a crime? I mean, it is just a cd. It isn't a bomb, or a gun, or a torture device....it is a stinking' cd; completely incapable of harming ANYONE EVER. Furthermore, the devil isn't real. The people who write "Devil Music" know that-- and they are all having a big laugh right now too. Why do you think they write "Devil Music"? Because they get a big kick out of how seriously people take mythology of course, and most importantly, to generate album sales. There is no such thing as bad publicity, and publicity gets you sales. Nothing sells more albums than for Bill O'Reilly to talk about how inappropriate an album is. The moment that some Fox News reporter warns the parents about how "detrimental, evil, vile, and disgusting" an album is, that album instantly sells 1 million copies. You know, now that I think about it, they might be in on it---getting their piece of the cash by publicly denouncing a band, thereby getting them rich. Either way, despite any artist's motives in creating music, I just like music. I don't care which fake god or devil or boogeyman it represents, sings about, or promotes, or what brainwashed lunatic wrote it for that matter....I just love heavy music, and I will continue to listen to it until the end of time. Any form of music that displays supreme musical skill, whether it be beauty, speed, complexity, heaviness, or otherwise, can talk about whatever it wants to and have anything it wants on its album cover. We listen to Christian bands too, you know. Like Living Sacrifice, Zao, Stretch Armstrong, and other really heavy bands that any Christian would mistake as "Devil Music" no doubt. These bands are seriously heavy, fast, and chaotic- just like we like it- but they have Bible verses and New Testament stories for lyrics. Doesn't affect us at all; like I said, we just like music. They don't care who they are praising. They can praise Gomer Pyle for all I care.
But lets face the facts here. I read the bible. All of it. I actually attempted to believe it and follow it as a child. According to the Malachi verse, failing to tithe is robbing from god. Well, I'm no scholar, well, um, yes I am,...er...well, let me just try that again. I am a scholar, and I say that god wants 10% of your earnings, and failing to do what god wants gets you put into hell. Christian lives are meant to be spent honoring god in every way that he has set forth in the bible. It says so very plainly throughout the bible, and to be a true Christian, you must obey the bible. Period. Just like the laws of the United States must be obeyed to stay out of jail, the laws of the bible must be obeyed to stay out of hell. You can't just pick and choose. Thus, you can give yourselves partial credit for pushing most of Americas youth away from Christianity by forcing our youth to become the [wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth] of some all powerful being, if theres one thing that our youth hate its being oppressed, not listened to or being having their opinion brushed aside as if it means nothing because Youre the Parent and Their the Child; that is the one phrase that is said constantly and is what [wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth]es our youth off so much that they go and gun down 15 to 20 people at school and all those people whove done that have either had a [wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth] home life or their parents were to stuck up full of themselves that they refused to listen to their children. If you think people like us are [wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth]ed up then get out your bible and read some of these verses:[/FONT]
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']Isaiah 45:7- "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things."[/FONT]
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Now explain to us how that if the bible says about 5000 times that everything god does is good, then why did he CREATE evil? Because all he is is just figment of some 12 religious nuts imaginations. Can you tell me what MIRICALES have happened in the past 500 years? EXATLY, YOU CANT BECAUSE GOD DOESNT EXIST EXEPT FOR IN THE MINDS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE TO WEAK TO GO THROUGH LIFE WITHOUT SOMETHING TO CLING TOO BECAUSE THEY CANT RELY ON THEMSELVES TO CREATE THEIR OWN PURPOSE IN LIFE RATHER THAT HAVING THEIR SO CALLED GOD DO IT FOR THEM. THEY ARE TO WEAK TO SPIRITUALLY GET UP OFF THEIR ASSES AND GIVE THEMSELVES A SPIRITUAL PURPOSE IN LIFE.
[/FONT][FONT='Times New Roman','serif']--In Judges 21:10-24, Numbers 31:7-18, Deuteronomy 20:10-14 God allows murder, rape, and sexual slavery.
All the soldiers in Midian were instructed by Moses, who was guided by God of course, to kill all the women who had been with a man before, and to keep all the virgins for themselves. It gets worse:[/FONT][FONT='Times New Roman','serif'][/FONT]
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']Deuteronomy 22:28-29- "If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her."[/FONT]
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[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']So a guy can rape a girl, as long as he pays the father, and then the poor girl has to marry the rapist!?!? And you cal US devil worshippers. [/FONT]
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']Oh and of course thats not your loving god.[/FONT]
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There are tons of other verses where rape is okay, one of the worst being Exodus 21:7-11 where it tells that a girl sold into slavery will not be released at the same time as the male slaves. (Side Note- By the way, um, slavery is okay?? God seems to think so. Who are we to question him?) If the girl doesn't satisfy her captor, she can be bought back. Are you kidding?
I could go on with these forever. God tells people to kill their children, their parents, gay people, and non-believers, pretty much anybody that doesn't follow all the rules. You may as well have been buying your children Cannibal Corpse or Judas Priest albums. There are more verses involving condoned murder and human sacrifice in the bible than I could ever list in a night. [/FONT]
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']"Brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death".[/FONT]
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif'] (When Jesus comes back, brothers will kill brothers, and parents and children must kill each other!?!?!? We are not supposed to listen to "devil music", but we can go to church, and bible school, and be considered perfectly normal, despite the fact that the bible is far more brutal; more twisted, and features more murder, rape, slavery, torture, and promotion of crimes against families and children than any album any of us have ever owned. You couldn't fit the bible's worth of evil onto one CD.[/FONT]
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']"Don't imagine that I came to bring peace on earth! No, rather a sword lf you love your father, mother, sister, brother, more than me, you are not worthy of being mine!!!" No, that wasn't Metallica, Slayer, Ozzy or Cannibal Corpse....that was Jesus. Yep, that same prince of peace, all loving, all good so called son of god. But don't be confused, he came with a sword to rip your family apart. And you thought our music was bad....
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Just because we listen to a song about demons doesn't make us demons. Just because you listen to a song about harlots doesn't make you a harlot. It's that simple. We don't believe in fairy tales, and we certainly don't conduct our lives around song lyrics, which is what you are implying by calling people like us "devil worshipers" by listening to the music that we do. Believe it or not, we are a rational, intelligent, logical human beings with the capacity for good ethics and kindness using our own decision making skills and critical thinking. We don't have to follow anyone else's goofy beliefs. We don't have to have an imaginary being, god or Satan, to guide us through life. We am comfortable embracing the truth and realizing that life is unexplainable at this point. No one knows the answers, good or bad, and I am not about to swallow any fantasy story about it.
In closing, I hope you truly realize that people like us are not Satanist, Demonic or Devil Worshppers. However, if it helps you to sleep at night, you can go ahead and believe that were all evil devil worshipers, and were fine with that too. Its actually quite amusing.
So anyway, I gotta go. All the candles are going out in my "Black Magic Circle" and I can't really see the goblet of blood since it is getting so dark, so I have to hurry up and give the Invocation of Chthulhu before the blood moon passes and awakens the werewolf. Hail Satan![/FONT][FONT='Times New Roman','serif'][/FONT]
