Is blasphemous Music ok?

pesky_wabbit + 1 again....

I interviewed Larry Norman (quite a known Jesus rocker in his time) after one of his concerts, for publication in a student magazine. He has a song called why does the devil have all the good music?

He thought Mick Jagger does good lyric about fundamentalist preachers. He loved this from the Undercover album.

Our TV leader boldy speaks
The words of Christ he tries to preach
We need more power to hold the line
The strength of darkness still abides

Must be hell living in the world
Living in the world like you
Must be hell living in the world
Suffering in the world like you

Keep in a straight line, stay in tune
No need to worry, only fools
End up in prison of conscience cells
Or in asylums they help to build

...blasphemous music.....*hmmm*

One could say that most of the concerts I've attended were such, even though few touched on religions, religious subjects, and those involved in that.

Half naked freaks, painted with cabalistic symbols or clothing depicting such, writhing to extremely loud pagan beats, shouted over by the obviously deranged. ;)

Drinking, smoking, touching, groping...all that 'fun chit'....

Raised Catholic, the more I read about religions, esp. Christianity, the more I looked askance at the whole trope.  At least Eastern religions more or less left it up to you, the individual, to determine what sort of human you sought to be.

I look at the universe we find ourselves adrift in and feel that the concept of an 'afterlife' to be a cruel joke played upon the gullible and fearful.  We place such importance on ourselves as some sort of pivot point in the void....when the truth is that we're just better at kidding ourselves as to our importance.

Hell, our pets mirror many of our traits....and we try to make their existence a better version of our own.....

"And if there be self-make hells, we all have to live within them..."  *sigh*

Believe what you must, or want.

If I 'see' you on the 'other side of this life', we can have a good cosmic giggle about it all and consider what to do to cope with infinity.
THAT concerns me more than any 'guilt trip' you can dish out, other than what seems like the headlong rush to guarantee the 'end times' that some seem to wish for beyond all rational comprehension....

...and the fear of having to live through it.

It won't be pretty, no....

@pesky_wabbit 100%.
How anyone, given the small sample size of just the last few months, let alone the last couple thousand years, would cast AT LEAST a skeptical eye, if not a completely terrified/horrified eye at the domineering, oppressive and insidious presence of religion in our lives is beyond me.

the FCC/powers-that-be have long protected us namby-pamby 'muuricans from such, courtesy of the 7-second delay as well as the advent of recording tape and the editing block, scissoring such songs as "the pusher" [steppenwolf] and "mississippi g*dd*m" [nina simone] if indeed they were to get airplay in the first place.