So I play in a band called Decomatize. We are all Christians but do not label ourselves as a Christian band unless talking to other Christians usually. I find that more and more the term "Christian" just gives a lot of people a bad taste in their mouth. Especially in the gothic community. Our music is hard industrial with crunchy guitars and 75% percent of our fans are "gothic". I personally dislike that label just as much as I dislike "Christian" sometimes because the title goth has negative conontations with it like, "Oh that person worships satan and hates their life" just like how Christian often is, "Oh that person is stuck up and lives a boring life". I don't think we can ever change those stereotypes unless people act differently and make it known that being a Christian is awesome! That it's not some boring, fake thing. That it's really REAL! My problem though is that I don't always know how to convey the Christian part in a good way. I'm kind of a loud mouth like Peter. The kind of guy that can drop an f-bomb witnessing for Christ because I'm so fired up. I'm new to this forum as well so I'm hoping to meet some people on here to share with.
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Ya know, I was gearing up for one of yet-so-many threads that approaches trolling, but I see that's not really the intent.
There's a rather long-established Christian Gothic and Industrial subculture, existing back to the late 80s or early 90s at least, such as the veritable smorgasbord of stuff over at Flaming Fish or ChristianIndustrial.net. Also is that at least a handful if not more of the artists with followings in the Christian Goth and Industrial segments are also big names in the standard scenes-at-large (I'm thinking particularly of The Last Dance and ThouShaltNot here, although you may be able to include the myriad of projects that Klayton worked on by virtue of Celldweller's prominence in the mainstream nowadays). Otherwise, it constitutes a portion of the standard Goth and Industrial subcultures as well, even if it's not the most vocal portion. Even still, the lion's share of material I've been exposed to in either section is mostly silent on the issue of faith, or visibly express disillusionment more than outright rejection and anti-religious attitudes.
The actual point I was meaning to make with that tidbit is that the negative views of those groups is the fault of the mass media, rather than the groups themselves - even though both exhibit somewhat strong disillusionment with established religion. Dishing out the truth about the media depictions (or outright ignoring them) usually seems to be the best course of action, I've seen.
There's a rather long-established Christian Gothic and Industrial subculture, existing back to the late 80s or early 90s at least, such as the veritable smorgasbord of stuff over at Flaming Fish or ChristianIndustrial.net. Also is that at least a handful if not more of the artists with followings in the Christian Goth and Industrial segments are also big names in the standard scenes-at-large (I'm thinking particularly of The Last Dance and ThouShaltNot here, although you may be able to include the myriad of projects that Klayton worked on by virtue of Celldweller's prominence in the mainstream nowadays). Otherwise, it constitutes a portion of the standard Goth and Industrial subcultures as well, even if it's not the most vocal portion. Even still, the lion's share of material I've been exposed to in either section is mostly silent on the issue of faith, or visibly express disillusionment more than outright rejection and anti-religious attitudes.
The actual point I was meaning to make with that tidbit is that the negative views of those groups is the fault of the mass media, rather than the groups themselves - even though both exhibit somewhat strong disillusionment with established religion. Dishing out the truth about the media depictions (or outright ignoring them) usually seems to be the best course of action, I've seen.
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