Posted on 01/30/2015 7:20:21 AM PST by SeekAndFind
He’ll be back.
All dressed up and no place to go.
He’s been in a boy band for 30 years???
Probably the case of never being a Christian to start with. Just going through the motions.
A well-known Christian leader was reading his Bible on a flight when the guy next to him said, “I don’t believe anything in that book. It’s all myths and garbage. I’m an atheist.” Or something like that.
To which the Christian replied, “That means there is a sin in your life that you are not willing to admit or give up IF the Bible were true, and there is a God.”
The man broke down and admitted that the Christian was correct.
Same truth applies here.
“He’ll be back.”
... if he was ever there.
Feh. Perdikis quit the band years before anyone heard of them, and he’s just whining sour grapes now. Hope he enjoys his fifteen minutes.
+1
He needs prayer, God is not finished with him yet.
Disappointing.
Sounds like it. Kicked out of high school, all he wanted to do was “rock”. The band he joined at a Christian school went from cover band to Christian rock band.
Article says he’s been an avowed atheist since 2007.
“Now” seems to be a relative term.
And it would seem he’s a fundamentalist atheist these days pushing HIS faith in the face of others with hostile claims of hypocrisy. “C’mon, covert to MY way of thinking! I ‘science’, dude!”
He never was a Christian.
[I wanted my life to be measured by my music, not be my ability to resist temptation.]
Pride comes before the fall.
Dawkin’s influence?
A life of nonsense.
I find the whole Christians are anti-science meme annoying.
The idea that there is not profound narcissism and egoism in this uber skeptical science groups is staggering.
I don’t think this person was ever Christian and I have read other explanations of this biography that suggest the same conclusion.
This person exploited a Christian band but never personally believed. He played for them because he liked music.
He is making a buck now off of Christian bashing. Big surprise.
I would say that he has a point that, for many Christians, Christianity is little more than a list of don’ts. This creates a bad mindset, imo, because one doesn’t really learn how to live when the reference is nothing more than what not to do.
I think teaching people what to do instead would lead to more success.
“I’m an atheist” => “I don’t want to be accountable to anyone but myself”
"I always felt uncomfortable with the strict rules imposed by Christianity. All I wanted to do was play rock and roll," Perdikis wrote. "And yet, most of the attention I received was focused on how well I maintained the impossible standards of religion. I wanted my life to be measured by my music, not be my ability to resist temptation. "And I'm now an atheist," Perdikis asserted....
....Perdikis co-wrote the band's first two albums and toured with the band up until he left in 1990.
It's been twenty-five years since he ended his involvement with the band, and he only wrote the op-ed because the band appeared in a theatrical movie (their second without him, BTW).
Dawkins' specialty.
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