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Fundie Follies: Rock 'n' Roll is the Music of the Dibbil

 

I discovered this ridiculous web site today: Good Fight Ministries. There's a companion You Tube channel Clicky. As with Hula Hoops, Poodle Skirts, Duck Tails, and "Davy Crocket" faux coonskin caps, this is a real blast from the past.

First up, we are told that the Beach Boys are "satanic". Yeah, that mid-1960s group that sang about nothing but cars, surfing and girls. This is the ultimate in mom and dad safe rock.

Brian Wilson hears voices. They talk to him. They distract him, frighten him, confuse him. Right now, the creative genius behind the Beach Boys classic surf sound...

Warner Bros. records president Larry Waroneker claims to have encountered at least five different entities that use Brian Wilson's body as their home...

So what have we learned here? Drugs are bad for you, and Brian Wilson needs a stay in a psychiatric institution, not an exorcist. If any of this is true, then Wilson is psychotic and/or has multiple personality disorder.

Of course, this Fundievangelical™ dipshit takes this as evidence of Wilson's being in league with the devil. Finest 16^th century thinking there, when crazy old women were burned at the stake as "witches".

How about Marilyn Manson?

Even though Manson had attended Heritage Christian School in Canton, Ohio, it did him little good as he saw in many of the students the same hypocrisy that was his own. Manson’s parents moved near Fort Lauderdale, Florida where Warner ended up in public school. It was there that the worldly enticements that he said he was protected from in a conservative Christian School met him head on:

“Christian school…defined the taboos, then held them away at arms length, leaving me reaching for them in vain. As soon as I switched schools, it was all there for the taking - sex, drugs, rock, the occult. I didn't even have to look for them: They found me.”

-- Marilyn Manson

This is all you need to know. It's a pattern that's repeated constantly. The kids of Fundievangelicals™, raised in the protective bubble of the community, go positively nuts when exposed to all the "forbidden fruits" for the first time. You can find them on just about any college campus. So it's no wonder that the former Fundie kid turned into the shock rocker. It's just one big adolescent rebellion against a constricted up-bringing. The main difference is that most would have out grown it by now. Don't take everything he says at his word. It's all part of the schtick.

This is the most common mistake religious whackos of all types make.

They even slander Elvis with this bullshit: Clicky. About all we learn here is that Elvis' version of Xianity was rather ideosyncratic. That's OK: American Xianity itself is ideosyncratic. That's why so many people came here in the first place: to escape the orthodoxy of the official state churches of Europe.

And let's not forget Ozzy:

Sadly, while Bush has spent millions of the taxpayer's money fighting against international terrorism he has given moral support and public honor to one of the most accomplished spiritual terrorists and corrupters of youth the world has ever known. For Bush to Support one who unabashedly glorifies evil and praises Satan is unconscionable. Nationally syndicated columnist Joseph Farah stated poignantly of Bush's praise of Ozzy:

“Satanic lyrics, evil worldview, disgusting mouth, no musical ability, drug abuse. This is Osbourne. He is a depraved moral terrorist, seducing young kids who don't know any better into deadly lifestyles. President Bush knew all this, but still felt it was appropriate to acknowledge him for special attention at the dinner last week.” –Joseph Farah, The Ozzy and Dubya show, 2002 WorldNetDaily.com

(Note: Emphasis in original)

Let us not forget that this, too, is Ozzy:

Have you ever thought about your soul - can it be saved?
Or perhaps you think that when you're dead you just stay in your grave
Is God just a thought within your head or is He a part of you?
Is Christ just a name that you read in a book when you were in school?

When you think about death do you lose your breath
Or do you keep your cool?
Would you like to see the Pope on the end of a rope
Do you think he's a fool?
Well I have seen the truth, yes I've seen the light
And I've changed my ways
And I'll be prepared when you're lonely and scared
At the end of our days

Could it be you're afraid of what your friends might say
If they knew you believe in God above?
They should realize before they criticize
That God is the only way to love

Is your mind so small that you have to fall
In with the pack wherever they run
Will you still sneer when death is near
And say they may as well worship the sun?

I think it is true it was people like you that crucified Christ
I think it is sad the opinion you had was the only one voiced
Will you be so sure when your day is near, say you don't believe?
You had the chance but you turned it down, now you can't retrieve

Perhaps you'll think before you say that God is dead and gone
Open your eyes, just realize that he's the one
The only one who can save you now from all this sin and hate
Or will you still jeer at all you hear?
Yes! I think it's too late.

-- After Forever

Satanic lyrics, OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKAY! The Jesus Freakery doesn't get a helluvalot smarmier than this.

Dipshits.