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To: Land of the Irish

Beware your sources. The "Heavy Metal" image shown is a copyrighted work, which I doubt they received permission to use. That demonstrates that they don't expect what they publish to be reviewed seriously.

The insertion of that image into the article shows an "oooo-boogie-boogie" mentality. "Heavy Metal" was a fantasy comic book. The mythology behind a dragon-rider is not satanic at all, but rather represents a mastery of one's own fears. THink of it as breaking, riding and using the most horrifying horse you ever saw. In the context of Satanic, ritual murders, it's natural to see the dragon as a demon, and the woman, thus, as a devil. But that context is alien.

The magazine "Heavy Metal" is sinful in that it presents grotesque distortions of human sexuality. It is not about Satan or demons (at least not the issues I ever saw). The book does have a sharp sense of good and evil; Evil is depicted as something to be triumphed over.

So why use a comic book cover when the article refers to music? Because the comic book cover is labelled, "Heavy Metal," and therefore serves to represent all of Heavy Metal. This is emotional manipulation, and unworthy of a serious discussion.

(That being said, I do agree that Heavy Metal music is evil. Except Stryper. Stryper was simply bad.)

(Come to think of it, Stryper was evil. They were so bad, that Heavy Metal kids weren't going to discover Christ through them; Christians were simply going to discover Heavy Metal through them.)

(Come to think of it again, no they weren't. Stryper was so bad, they didn't anyone to heavy metal.)


11 posted on 07/09/2004 2:28:46 PM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus
Did you read the text on the photo?

"A Universe of Magic".

"A Universe of Sexual Fantasy".

"A Universe of Awesome Good".

"A Universe of Terrifying Evil".

Do you think the Novus Ordo church is the "white magic" of "Awesome Good"?

Personally, I think it's all a bunch of gnostic paganism.

13 posted on 07/09/2004 2:48:38 PM PDT by Land of the Irish
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To: dangus

You are very naive about heavy metal music where you a fan of it at one time? The insertion is right on the mark and Satanists use images like that. Heavy metal and rock music in general is garbage and the devil uses it to draw more people away from Christ. Now sure not every one who listens to it is going to act like these sick evil kids.

Satan uses distortions about sexuality. Sexuality has to do with life- he is anti life as you know. He want these kids to have sex and then abort there offspring which is child sacrifice. Heavy metal music encourages this unbridaled sexuality and it is evil. This is what Ratzinger had to say about Rock music.

Cardinal Ratzinger said,
"..satanical cults and satanical types of music are constantly spreading today whose dangerous power intentionally to wreck and eradicate the person has not yet been taken seriously enough.... Since rock music seeks redemption by way of liberation from .personality and its responsibility, it fits very ‘precisely into the anarchistic ideas of freedom that are manifesting themselves more openly all over the world. But that is also exactly why such
music is diametrically opposed to Christian notions of redemption and freedom, indeed
their true contradiction. Music of this type must be excluded from the Church for not for aesthetic reason, not out of reactionary stubbornness, not because of historical rigidity, but because of its very nature ‘(A New for the Lord, pp. 123-124)


24 posted on 07/09/2004 10:19:58 PM PDT by pro Athanasius (Catholicism is not a "politically correct sound bite".)
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