IantheGecko wrote: Hey, I'd rather drink Jesus's cup of coffee than Lunara the Spring Moon Spirit's cup any day. Jesus was meant to be an example for our lives.
And oh yeah, I see lots of kids at school with Inkubbus Succubus shirts. Incubus maybe, but not those guys.
... what? Why exactly did you need to say that? Look, we KNOW you're Christian, great for you. What you said just came off as a very arrogant "My God is Much Bigger than Yours" type of remark and was even a little disrespectful towards paganism.
Just out of Irony, the little dude in your avatar from whatever RPG has an Ankh as a weapon; I'm wearing one right now. It's the egyptian glyph for life but it's also widely used as both a pagan and goth symbol.
Douglas wrote: Well said.
Now, I'll give Ian that maybe he didn't mean to come off like that, but acknowledging "OMG YES JESUS IS BETTER THAN SELENE" is just being stupid. This is exactly what I mean when it comes to "Breathing space" for non-Xians in here.
Quote: Rosie, the point of Christian music is that it's being done for Jesus, not for the people.
... no, it's being made for people as well as jesus otherwise they wouldn't have concerts, would they? And if it's being made for Jesus, how do you know Jesus likes that way of doing things? I doubt he would.
Quote: If a group of Christians were to make a band that had nothing to do with Jesus, and didn't have that "Jesus Jesus, atmosphere", as you call it, well, then that's kind of an oxymoron.
... no it's not. Christians don't have to play Christian music.
Quote: The point of a Christian's life is that it's supposed to revolve around Jesus.
Well, that's debatable. Just because someone is your idol or messiah doesn't mean your entire life revolves around him. Especially since a lot of other stuff happens in the bible.
Quote: That's why there's no Death Metal bands that Christians do,
... yes there are. And there's certainly "Metal" bands too, Megadeth comes to mind.
Quote: or New Age bands with Christians,
Yes, there probably are, just not many. And as I said, Enigma made many Christian references in their first album despite New Age normally going hand in hand with paganism. They sort of mish-mash everything a little.
I don't know, and I don't think Michael and his wife are Christian, but they do use the more spiritual aspects of Christianity in their music, the bits I actually kind of like, so it all works well.
Check this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCMXC_a.D.
That's a very good album, in my opinion. It's not really Christian as such, but still, if Christian Musicians did music more like that, they'd get somewhere.
But still, one of the most influential New Age albums of all time having quite a few Christian themes is food for thought.
Quote: as both of those are generally steeped in the occult, which is something that we're not supposed to mess with.
That's not necessarily true. New Age is about the spiritual and there can be New Age Christians that fall back on the spiritual as opposed to the dogmatic element.
Quote: And even if Inkubbus Succubus wasn't pagan, I wouldn't listen to them, because you can't trust any band that's that bad at spelling.
What? You don't listen to them because they're openly pagan? What sort of shot reasoning is that? I listen to Billy Corgan, and he openly presents himself as Christian. I expect that first part was so you could make the joke about the spelling(I hope that was a joke)
As for I.S., they were founded to be a Pagan band but ended up in the goth scene so they're a goth band first, and a pagan band second. I do know some non-pagans who appreciate their music, but I still don't feel entirely comfortable with even people who share my beliefs flaunting them. However, that said, unlike most Christian bands their lyrics are varied and even deal with other religions too. They tend to be a pagan-themed band rather than a "yay we're pagans listen to us" band, at least these days.
I'm not even a huge fan. I like some of their songs though, and there isn't much "worship my god". They do sing about gods & mythology, but since there are so many different gods and mythologies they sing aobut it's a lot easier to take than "Jesus, Jesus!".
Inkubus Sukkubus are kind of like what a Christian band should be, except pagan.
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And I was only making fun of the musicians, whereas yours was directed at Pagans in general, which is different. It WAS a "my God is better than yours". About half a page of that is just fat added on to make sure that it didn't look to some people like I was saying the same thing(Which is funny because the same people would be mostly against P.C.).
