"Love thy neighbor"
"Pray for their sins"
"Love thy fellow man"
"Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us."
My ass!
The most hypocritical of people, worse than reformed smokers are the religious intolerant right. I want to give you two examples of people being overly anal.
A woman I know joined myspace because of my suggetion. She has allot of god people like "Myspace for Jesus" in her top friends. We giggled about how I'm mixed in with them also. That was funny ...then.
So recently I created this really cool avatar that morphs between a Baphomet sigil and my DJ Darkstar logo. It was the first one I ever did like this. I was kind of proud of it.
Anyway... I wrote some script to be able to use it as a comment on peoples myspace. Now I know that may not flush with everyone, but you'd figure if it was someone I've known for about 10 years and allegedly knows me well enough, I should be able to post something freely. I mean, it's a comment... She has like 900 friends, so eventually it would get buried anyway.
I post the comments and I get a message back on how cool my page looks in redux, yet they regret that they can't post my comment because it had an "occult symbol" in it. Funny thing was, they couldn't even identify how occult it was. I asked if it were a star of David (which was derived from the occult symbol called the "triangles of light and
darkness") or a reverse swastika (as the direction of the swastika is actually a Hindu symbol and not Nazism) or a straight pentacle which is the symbol of witchcraft/wicca ("wicca" meaning "wise woman" by translation) and
also considered the 5 pointed symbol of our race, would she deny them in the same fashion? No answer as of yet.
Another funny part is that this this woman is far from sainthood. Considering the "sins" she has committed in her life and the fact that she doesn't go to church, makes you wonder how much hypocrisy courses through her veins.
Now, I'm also known to be vindictive. I can at times, feel the need to find rebellious teenage ways to get my point across. So being in her top friends and being denied the ability to spread my views... I decided to make a smaller file sized animated .GIF of the same picture in a simpler fashion. So now, buried in her top friends, there is little ol' me and my morphing "Satan-star" as I've heard it called.
Sorry kids... But practice what you preach before you take on the tiny battles that mean nothing but offend your so-called real life friends just so you can keep your fake cyber-ones you've never even physically spoken too.
On the same night, another case in point. A band I've worked with and even filmed for, that actually supports the D'Sarian Movement and the ways of the Epical, got a comment from a 40 year old myspacer named "Satan". Yea yea yea... "Satan". So what? The fun of myspace is assuming identities similar to the old style C.B. Radio handle. Now I'm not here to extol the virtues of myspace, but I'm here to make a point. He even has a comment from another myspacer named "God" who asks him how things have been. It's mostly an act.
Anyway... Here's the funny part. He sends them a comment that's comically Satanic. I mean, it was just funny all together. So they forwarded me the comment because they thought the graphics were cool but...and here's the capper; they felt that the images would "make the Christian rock fans want to hang" them.
I stopped. I stared at that email and wondered...'what in the world does that mean?' A progressive rock band who has been heralded as a mix of Rush, Pink Floyd and ELO is worried about some Christian rock fans? Who gives a flying fuck about Christian rockers? They don't have any large impact on the music industry. Hell, even GOTH is now a more popular musical sub-culture.
Now, let's face it, rock will always be the devils music. It will always have it's roots deeply implanted in the credo of "sex, drugs and rock and roll". It will always be hated by older generations and yet they are worried about pissing off the pansy Papal guitar-pick pushers?. I guess if you want your album to go Myrrh like Eric Cartman, then fine. But in the real music world, platinum is what's desired. If it was so necessary to be in with the Christian rock crowd, wouldn't Evanescence stop denying they're a god band? No. Why is that? Because it HINDERS rock bands sales more than helps.
Rockers, you can't please everybody... And that's what makes rock cool. It's raw, in your face and supposed to cause shock and awe. If you're afraid of one demographic, then you're doomed from the start. Do you think that would have stopped bands like the Beatles, Ozzy , Sabbath, the Ramones , Iron Maiden, Nine Inch Nails or Marilyn Manson to be so afraid of pissing off one minor music fangroup? No. No politician can please everyone and win every vote and neither can a musical band.
This is a rant about intolerance and hypocrisy. I tolerate people who can't just say "goodbye" on the phone... No, they have to say "have a blessed day". These are the same people who would cringe when a wiccan says "blessed be". However, every Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, Agnostic, Atheist, Satanist, Odinist, Wiccan and anyone else must bow down and make way for the Christian brigade.
And we call ourselves Americans. Home of the fear.
Posted by Darkstar at January 27, 2007 01:09 AM | TrackBack