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To me, if nothing else...anyways, on to the post!
The second one I'll mention first since he was the first one I thought of when I understood that God still loved me as much as I thought he didn't....Alice Cooper.
I'm well aware that some of you out there think little of him and in fact, trash talk him since some are of the opinion he is not a "real" Christian somehow. This is not what I'm here to discuss. Back around the turn of the millennium, I read an interview with him where he was promoting his album at the time, "Brutal Planet", and I was surprised to find out he was a Christian. I don't recall his exact words, but one of his answers to a question he was asked included him essentially saying:
"I don't take black metal bands seriously at all; in fact, I think they're pretty funny. Because I always imagine them as being all *in nerdy voice* "Hi, I'm from Denmark, and I'd really like a cup of coffee right now." Because really? If Satan were to come up to you, believe me, he wouldn't have horns, or a pitchfork, or hooves and a barbed tail. He'd be Brad Pitt in a fine tailored suit, he'd be the most handsome guy around, and his lines would be so smooth you'd want to listen to him above all else." I read that and said "Yeah...what he said!" Even though I was a foolish sort who was dabbling in "earth based spirituality" at the time and finding it to not be anything like what it advertised itself as being.
Makes sense to me, because nothing is as it seems. Keep that in mind for the rest of this post, if y'all would be so kind?
On to the man who is easily my greatest earthly hero, Ian Fraser Kilmister AKA Lemmy. Sure, he was the epitome of the "rock n' roll" lifestyle, and he was by no means perfect. But who of us are? The reason he is my earthly hero is that...he was more a Christian than many people would think he was. He was renowned as a kindly sort to those who befriended him, a class act who called BS when he heard and saw it, a man who always had time for a fan, who treated people fairly and gave them his time generously. A man who saw through the pretensions of others and called them what they were if they had it coming. A man who was supportive of women playing rock n' roll (which admittedly can be a boy's club), and not just as lust objects, either.
Lemmy was also a renowned critic of organized religion--understandably, beginning with since his father was a RAF vicar who abandoned his mother less than a year or so after he was born. All that aside, keeping in mind he was also neck deep in the hippie subculture in the 60s in England (and like myself with Celtic paganism, also finding out that it was not what it advertised itself as being)? The man saw through the smoke and mirrors and realized what was up in short order. In his own words: "If Jesus came back now, He'd be in jail inside a week."
Being on the outside looking in all my life has always put me in a position where I find myself in that place, seeing what's up from the outside and realizing what is going on. IMO? Organized religion exists more to separate us from God and from Christ's love in particular, in the interest of being a Good Little Do Bee above all. To be obedient as opposed to growing and learning and expanding our consciousness and understanding of Him. To not rock the boat. Or, as Jesus said in one of the iconic moments of "The Chosen"? "Sometimes, you just gotta stir the waters." Maybe I'm doing so now, with this post?
I think that Lemmy grokked, whether he admitted it or not, that Jesus was a rebel. Jesus brought a whole new way of thinking and looking at things. He shook up the power structure of His time and that fearlessly. Lemmy Got this, I think, and he embodied it in his own little way. By being a good person, being kind to people, being a stand up guy who treated the little guy with kindness and looked askance at the higher up types who thought they were better than the rest of us. Or as the man himself said; "Just 'cos you got the power, that don't mean you got the right!"
This is the best way I can explain it at the moment. What do y'all think?
The second one I'll mention first since he was the first one I thought of when I understood that God still loved me as much as I thought he didn't....Alice Cooper.
I'm well aware that some of you out there think little of him and in fact, trash talk him since some are of the opinion he is not a "real" Christian somehow. This is not what I'm here to discuss. Back around the turn of the millennium, I read an interview with him where he was promoting his album at the time, "Brutal Planet", and I was surprised to find out he was a Christian. I don't recall his exact words, but one of his answers to a question he was asked included him essentially saying:
"I don't take black metal bands seriously at all; in fact, I think they're pretty funny. Because I always imagine them as being all *in nerdy voice* "Hi, I'm from Denmark, and I'd really like a cup of coffee right now." Because really? If Satan were to come up to you, believe me, he wouldn't have horns, or a pitchfork, or hooves and a barbed tail. He'd be Brad Pitt in a fine tailored suit, he'd be the most handsome guy around, and his lines would be so smooth you'd want to listen to him above all else." I read that and said "Yeah...what he said!" Even though I was a foolish sort who was dabbling in "earth based spirituality" at the time and finding it to not be anything like what it advertised itself as being.
Makes sense to me, because nothing is as it seems. Keep that in mind for the rest of this post, if y'all would be so kind?
On to the man who is easily my greatest earthly hero, Ian Fraser Kilmister AKA Lemmy. Sure, he was the epitome of the "rock n' roll" lifestyle, and he was by no means perfect. But who of us are? The reason he is my earthly hero is that...he was more a Christian than many people would think he was. He was renowned as a kindly sort to those who befriended him, a class act who called BS when he heard and saw it, a man who always had time for a fan, who treated people fairly and gave them his time generously. A man who saw through the pretensions of others and called them what they were if they had it coming. A man who was supportive of women playing rock n' roll (which admittedly can be a boy's club), and not just as lust objects, either.
Lemmy was also a renowned critic of organized religion--understandably, beginning with since his father was a RAF vicar who abandoned his mother less than a year or so after he was born. All that aside, keeping in mind he was also neck deep in the hippie subculture in the 60s in England (and like myself with Celtic paganism, also finding out that it was not what it advertised itself as being)? The man saw through the smoke and mirrors and realized what was up in short order. In his own words: "If Jesus came back now, He'd be in jail inside a week."
Being on the outside looking in all my life has always put me in a position where I find myself in that place, seeing what's up from the outside and realizing what is going on. IMO? Organized religion exists more to separate us from God and from Christ's love in particular, in the interest of being a Good Little Do Bee above all. To be obedient as opposed to growing and learning and expanding our consciousness and understanding of Him. To not rock the boat. Or, as Jesus said in one of the iconic moments of "The Chosen"? "Sometimes, you just gotta stir the waters." Maybe I'm doing so now, with this post?
I think that Lemmy grokked, whether he admitted it or not, that Jesus was a rebel. Jesus brought a whole new way of thinking and looking at things. He shook up the power structure of His time and that fearlessly. Lemmy Got this, I think, and he embodied it in his own little way. By being a good person, being kind to people, being a stand up guy who treated the little guy with kindness and looked askance at the higher up types who thought they were better than the rest of us. Or as the man himself said; "Just 'cos you got the power, that don't mean you got the right!"
This is the best way I can explain it at the moment. What do y'all think?
