Singer Tim Lambesis Said He Became Atheist But Kept Claiming to Be Christian to Keep Selling Music

Christian Post ^ | 06/17/2014 | Leonardo Blair

[SeekAndFind]

TIM LAMBESIS...

[cripplecreek]

Never heard of him or them.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

People who go to Super-Fun Rock-Band Church aren’t really Christian, anyway.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It’s sad to hear about this... a group of performers who is truly invested in presenting the gospel will beat the spiritual pants off the impostors.

[Talisker]

People who go to Super-Fun Rock-Band Church aren’t really Christian, anyway.

Let's face it - no one is REALLY Christian.

Except you, of course.

[HiTech RedNeck]

If it isn’t based on genuine gospel. It’s possible to do genuine gospel in a super fun rock context. I’ve written lyrics with that intent. Think Shiggaion. Where you need the fury.

[The_Media_never_lie]

People who go to Super-Fun Rock-Band Church aren’t really Christian, anyway.

The only real Christians attend the painful, traditional churches.

[Slump Tester]

I’ll bet their “music” sucks.

[cripplecreek]

I prefer a heavy metal singer who shows his Christianity through his behavior rather than one who seeks to make a buck off Christians.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The grace of God will show all around a genuine presenter... and really this is what these folks are. They are presenters of the gospel, using a non traditional format.

[detective]

“he and other members of his band had become atheists but kept claiming to be Christians so they could keep making money selling records to Christians.”

Gee, someone in the entertainment industry whose public image that he presents to his fans is totally phony. And he only cares about making money.

Gee, who ever would have guessed? What a surprise.

[luvbach1]

Little Richard went back and forth from rock ‘n roll to gospel. I guess he went back to rock’n roll when he was running low on cash.

[Ransomed]

Back in the day a guy once told me that the PDs for contemporary Christian radio used to judge songs on ‘JPMs.’ That’s ‘Jesus per minute’ as in how many times the word ‘Jesus’ is used in a minute. Songs with high JPMs got more airplay because they needed to let their audience know as soon as possible that it’s the place on the dial they are looking for. Supposedly the music was so bad that unless you had high JMPs everyone would just flip past.

Freegards

[Vendome]

He’ll come to Jesus while living in a gated community, reading in his private room and pondering life in a cloistered chapel....

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It's kind of hard to be a Christian and tatted-up pagan at one and the same time.

Case in point.

[HiTech RedNeck]

There’s an adage that hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. Paul voiced a similar sentiment when he said he was glad to hear the gospel getting preached even by those who only had pecuniary interest in mind. It was better than it not being preached.

[Viennacon]

“Those kids need to hear about real life, because they live in a bubble,”

What a narcissistic, elitist piece of trash. Yeah, the real world is where you hire a hitman to murder your wife. Methinks this dork has been playing too many video games. What a loser.

Hope you enjoy getting butt-raped in prison, jackass.

[wideawake]

Interesting.

He's saying: "I stopped being a Christian. Then I became a murderer."

That's a testimony of a certain kind in itself.

[HiTech RedNeck]

And that isn’t always a good criterion of what is gospel and what isn’t.

[Alex Murphy]

Tim Lambesis, lead singer and founder of Christian metalcore band As I Lay Dying, recently confessed that he and other members of his band had become atheists but kept claiming to be Christians so they could keep making money selling records to Christians. In a wide-ranging interview with Alternative Press shortly before he was sentenced to six years in prison last month for attempting to hire a hitman to murder his estranged wife, Meggan Murphy Lambesis, the singer addressed a claim he made last year in a YouTube video about his spiritual allegiance after fans started saying he had become a Satanist.

He tacitly admits that bands that maintain a clean image will sell more music.