Make your excuses to me now and be prepared to stand in front of Jesus Christ some day and we'll see just how glib and dismissive you are as you try to make the same excuses to Him then.
One of your objections is that the song is sung from the point of view of satan.
My objection is that it is a song where satan revels in his destruction, chaos, and blasphemy and you -- a supposed conservative and possibly even a nominal Christian -- allow yourself to be entertained by such things. It provides readers with a unique window into what characterizes your brand of "conservatism" and into what passes for your level of maturity in Christian discernment.
So, does this also make CS Lewis a heretic, or at least evil? I mean, given how "The Screwtape Letters" were written as through from the viewpoint of a demon.
Mick Jagger expects you to derive entertainment and make him rich buying his music which celebrates satan's revelry in the destruction he has wreaked upon mankind and ends the song with taunts and threats.
If you ever read The Screwtape Letters to the point that you derived any meaningful level of familiarity with it you would know that CS Lewis neither promotes, celebrates, nor derives entertainment from the perspectives imputed to the demon the way you insist on being entertained by those who blaspheme and celebrate the perspective of satan.
You are being called to answer for that now. Just know that Someone someday greater than me will be asking you to give an account for choices in entertainment you made and in doing so who you chose to enrich -- and at the expense of what principles your entertainment came.
Just so you'll think I'm a total scumbag, I was also a huge fan of Black Sabaths's first album.
Do you, like satan in "Sympathy for the Devil," tell me this for purposes of taunting me, or merely to confirm what I said about what passes for your level of maturity -- or lack thereof -- in the context of Christian discernment?
So keep on looking for satan's influence in music and other entertainment, and I'll end this with another, "Lighten up, Francis."
And you can continue to enrich those who mock the conservative principles you pretend to affirm.
You will be called to answer for it someday.
