then why do they need to promote it?
Interesting that Alice Cooper was ready to leave the industry but his pastor asked him if God made mistakes and pointed out that he had an audience and a platform, and that he may have been “placed at the heart of the Philistines camp for a reason”
You hit on a really interesting point here @Lizard King - I didn’t much care for Disgraceland either! Christians can certainly reflect the character of Jesus. Unfortunately they can also be superior and judgemental. If you don’t believe me, consider the fact that this forum has a certain history of Christians who don’t always manage to reflect that grace.
I believe in the Golden Rule and Jesus: Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do To You.
This version differs, that's the one I take from.
I would never give Freemasonry an inch. It’s the religion of Lucifer and he’s not coming where I’m going!
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I believe this is critical too - Paul expands on it in Romans 13:
I once had everything Jack Chick published. All the little tracts and all the full size comic books. They were good comics with good artwork and many were actually frightening to read. I got them all free too LOL.I would never give Freemasonry an inch. It’s the religion of Lucifer and he’s not coming where I’m going!
Chick.com: Should a Christian be a Mason? - by David W. Daniels
Well-known masons, in their own words, show why no Christian should be a Mason.
Insofar as Alice Cooper now promotes the ideas of Freemasonry, I reject them. (I will keep an open mind on his current output). I have recently enjoyed his music because I like what he has been saying (after 1994). If I find that I don’t anymore, and just returns to promoting his old playlist, I will drop his music as quickly as I deleted Kanye’s non-Christian Christian album, “Jesus is King”.
Btw - I like the KJV the best too…
I would never give Freemasonry an inch. It’s the religion of Lucifer and he’s not coming where I’m going!
Jesus instructs you to know your enemy, I despise it. But still dedicated time and effort to understand who they REALLY are.
Most won't know about the bloodline curses from your family tree, because someone way back or even present will have shackled you in the world you cannot see.
Take that as you will, but I'd take it to Jesus and give it to him to salve.
Chick.com: Should a Christian be a Mason? - by David W. Daniels
Well-known masons, in their own words, show why no Christian should be a Mason.
Insofar as Alice Cooper now promotes the ideas of Freemasonry, I reject them. (I will keep an open mind on his current output). I have recently enjoyed his music because I like what he has been saying (after 1994). If I find that I don’t anymore, and just returns to promoting his old playlist, I will drop his music as quickly as I deleted Kanye’s non-Christian Christian album, “Jesus is King”.
You may reject them, but you do not reject him.
Use the discernment Jesus arms you with, he have you eyes and ears.
If ANYONE EVER promotes it, then they are showing you.
I have no idols, or the kind of celebrity, sports, etc.
I'm still a dirty mediocre sinner, I know in not worthy of Elohim, all I have is his Son.
Btw - I like the KJV the best too…
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I can understand the various perspectives shared but I honestly haven’t changed my view. I don’t expect anyone else to enjoy Alice Coopers output and he certainly was once on the dark side.
I'm an actual extreme metalhead who has listened to death metal and black metal, and these 2 genres' subgenres, for almost 17 years now since I was 15.
Professor Metal.I'm an actual extreme metalhead who has listened to death metal and black metal, and these 2 genres' subgenres, for almost 17 years now since I was 15.
The reason he found the music tame is because heaviness is the objective of death metal and its subgenres, not black metal and its subgenres.
The objective of black metal is to create an "atmosphere", a mood, feeling or emotion, or an "emotional landscape/world".
Deicide is death metal and Venom is heavy metal that influenced the creation of the black metal genre.
Maybe your friend should have listened to other extreme metal genres like death metal and its subgenres brutal death metal and slamming brutal death metal, deathgrind, goregrind and more.
But if he doesn't want to be into metal anymore that's fine.
There are three non-LHP, Christian black metal bands I know of,
ANTESTOR,
BATUSHKA, and
HORDE.
These three bands in particular are pro-Christian and safe for Christians to listen to.
There is the pro-Christian death/doom metal band called Paramaecium.
There is lots of pro-Christian metal of most metal subgenres out there, non-metalheads just are unaware of where to look for it.
For everything metal, please talk to me and/or use metal-archives.com , the metal encyclopedia for all metal bands of all genres and subgenres.
These are the results for Christian only lyrically themed metal bands, minus all the anti-christian lyrically themed bands. If you want to get into Christian metal, please check out any of the bands below.
The non-extreme genres of metal are heavy metal, speed metal, and power metal, and traditional doom metal (slow heavy metal, and not other doom metal subgenres because other doom metal subgenres become extreme (like funeral doom metal) and mixes well with the extreme metal genres, like death/doom and black/doom).
There is a pro-Christian death/doom metal band called Paramaecium.
Both heavy metal and traditional doom metal were started by the first heavy metal band Black Sabbath as you already know, and the entire doom metal genre was inspired by Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath are classified as heavy/doom metal.
These non-extreme genres have singing only, and don't have death metal growls or black metal shrieks and screams.
The genre power metal is the pleasant sounding "happy metal" genre with happy melodies, inspired by the nice melodies of Iron Maiden, and is the "safest" metal genre to listen to for non-metalheads and Christians.
Personally, I would recommend you the pro-Christian neo-classical power metal band from South Korea called JesusBand, but I can't find their material.
Check out these Christian power metal and doom metal playlists on YouTube.
Christian Power Metal
Christian Doom Metal
Christian Doom Metal albums
Hope this helps. If you want more Christian metal, let me know. Enjoy and have fun!
