Is blasphemous Music ok?

...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. 

@noske: I saw Larry Norman quite a few times when he was one of the two lead singers in the San Jose group People, who had a hit single in 1968 with their recording of The Zombies "I Love You". Larry was asked to leave the group when the four musician-members---who had become Scientologists---deemed him "anti-social" (oh those nutty Scientologists ;-) . Fellow-singer Gene Mason---like Larry, not a Scientologist---also left the group, starting a band named Radio. My teenage band played a show in Saratoga with them in the summer of '69, as well as opening for the now Larry and Gene-less People line-up in Santa Cruz that same summer. People's guitarist Geoff Levin went on to make some good records, including a direct-to-disc on Sheffield Labs Records! He has also had a productive career in film and television.

In 1977 I happened to see that Larry was appearing at The Paramount Theater in Portland, so decided to go see what he was up to. The Paramount was a pretty big theater, and it was packed. Larry was a good entertainer (solo, accompanying his singing on piano and guitar), and the very well-behaved audience (oh those Christians ;-) responded very enthusiastically. I followed up the show by buying a copy of Larry's latest album---In Another Land---at Music Millennium, which is still in my collection. The following year I again attended a show at The Paramount, this one of a very different nature: AC/DC and Thin Lizzy ;-) .

If you look at the archaeology of the Romans you'll see that religion put society into a lengthy period of dark ages. Where would we be without it? Go for it!