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		Subby is not sure which is stranger: that there is a such thing as a "The Christian rap metal band," or that a high school brought them in to force girls to chant a mantra about virginity (washingtonpost.com)		66
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kingoomieiii		2012-03-13 11:30:43 AM

11 votes:

New rule- if an "Inspiration speaking group" wants to separate the staff from the students, you say "no". No exceptions. If they INSIST on having the students alone, you kick them the fark out and don't invite them back.

namegoeshere		2012-03-13 12:51:13 PM

7 votes:

Corvus		2012-03-13 01:58:32 PM

5 votes:

namegoeshere: If you are not chanting, you are a WHORE! Jesus hates whores.

I beg to differ.
4.bp.blogspot.com

BurnShrike		2012-03-13 01:40:03 PM

5 votes:

rubi_con_man		2012-03-13 01:59:24 PM

4 votes:

So why should your daughter abstain from sex?

1. You don't want to feed / raise / church her lovechild.
2. Men won't marry a woman who has a kid, and your daughter wants to be a wife
3. Disease will make her toxic and undesirable (see 2)
4. Intercourse will distract her from becoming economically viable
5. Sexually bonding with a fellow student will shift her future goals to "Marry, make baby"
6. It will affect your social standing if it gets out that your daughter puts out
7. All her sex -EVER - should be with whomever gets the nerve up to ask her to marry
8. She has a drug problem and will make crack baby.
9. She can't support a new baby - and neither can you
10. None of the men interested in her are the kind you want for a son-in-law (or baby-daddy)
11. You've pledged her to your business partner as a condition for that last loan.
12. She will make ugly babies
13. Becoming pregnant or giving birth will kill her.
14. She has so many dreams she'll never achieve. Why take them away from her now?

NowhereMon		2012-03-13 01:51:32 PM

4 votes:

These guys are based out of MN, they routinely set up tables with literature outside of well trafficked stored and then aggressively panhandle for donations. It's so freaking obnoxious that they are usually asked to leave within minutes. Michele Bachmann helped them score some federal cash for a van and store front "ministry" during the Bush years. So this is your tax dollars at work.

Why any school official would let these guys within a mile of their school is a complete mystery.

WhyteRaven74		2012-03-13 04:07:00 PM

3 votes:

Callous: . And I'm sure that telling her to lie to her parents will have absolutely no I'll effects on her relationship with her parents or her psychological health.

If she's afraid to tell her parents then you're well past the point of worrying about that.

MoronLessOff		2012-03-13 02:51:15 PM

3 votes:

I like these guys:
1.bp.blogspot.com

Amidoinitright?

/yes, I really do.

Pincy		2012-03-13 02:37:05 PM

3 votes:

So what did they do for the boys? Yes, I understand that girls are the ones who get pregnant but isn't there anything we can do to shame the boys into abstaining from sex as well?

Savage Bacon		2012-03-13 02:15:44 PM

3 votes:

I DID IT ALL FOR THE JESUS! (COME ON!)
THE JESUS (COME ON!)
SO YOU CAN TAKE THAT FOETUS
AND CARRY IT TO TERM!
CARRY IT TO TERM!
CARRY IT TO TERM!
CARRY IT TO..

batlock666		2012-03-13 01:57:47 PM

3 votes:

There is only one rap metal song, and it ain't christian: "Bring the Noize" by Public Enemy and Anthrax.

/Base
//How low can you go

the_end_is_rear		2012-03-13 01:56:49 PM

3 votes:

Dear Christian Taliban

I do not want to live in a theocracy.
So please STFU.

Thanks

apoptotic		2012-03-13 01:54:13 PM

3 votes:

As soon as I saw the name Bradlee Dean I thought "wait, isn't he that weirdo who had some weird mutual admiration thing going on with Michele Bachmann?", so I googled and sure enough, he did...until he finally got annoyed with her and compared her to smelly cheese. So he's got that going for him, I guess.

genepool lifeboat		2012-03-13 01:43:16 PM

3 votes:

thelordofcheese: Has subby forgotten P.O.D.?

Haven't most people?

ArkAngel		2012-03-13 11:53:24 AM

3 votes:

I've heard Christian rap.

I've heard Christian metal.

Combining them can never be a good thing.

monkybunney		2012-03-14 12:32:04 PM

2 votes:

Want to know how you can ruin ANYTHING? Put the word christian before it...
I love bacon...How about trying some Cristian Bacon?
It's a Christian 1080p HDTV.
Have some Christian coffee.
Wanna play some Christian Xbox?
LITTERALLY
farkING
ANYTHING

Coelacanth		2012-03-13 04:48:52 PM

2 votes:

WhyteRaven74: There's nothing about heavy metal that has anything to do with Satan.

Actually there's a school of thought that Satan inspires all kinds of music and dancing too. But this comes from Christians who think slavery is no big deal and people are poor because God hates them.

overmortal		2012-03-13 04:37:51 PM

2 votes:

Over the years, I've enjoyed many Christian metal, hardcore, punk, and/or rap/rock bands (though some later began to shy away from being a "Christian" band).

Project 86, Zao, Norma Jean, Demon Hunter, The Chariot, Training for Utopia, Officer Negative, Stronghold, 90lb Wuss, Slick Shoes, MxPx, Stavesacre, and plenty of others.

That said, I really hate it when a Christian band does something that can clearly be construed as hateful or bigoted. The idea is to spread the Gospel, not condemn the shiat out of anyone who doesn't yet believe exactly what you believe or act exactly as you act.

Pincy		2012-03-13 03:17:47 PM

2 votes:

lordaction: Pincy: lordaction: But liberals have no problem providing abortions for underage girls via schools without gaining the consent or informing the parents.

How about both sides just quit and let the schools just teach.

Are there public schools that do abortions? I wasn't aware that this was the case but you never know.

Yup. You would think it is a joke but sadly it is not.

Link (new window)

First, the school did not perform the abortion. They helped her get to an abortion provider. So no, public schools do not do abortions but this one does help girls who want one get one, at least in this one case.

FTA:

"Angry as the mother is that she was not informed about her daughter's quest and receipt of an abortion, the health clinic at the school did not break any laws.

Under Washington state law, parental consent is not required when providing health care to minors, even when that care includes abortion."

"At any age in the state of Washington, an individual can consent to a termination of pregnancy," said Cosgrove.

So the school has done nothing illegal either. But she didn't have to use the school. She could have asked another adult completely unrelated to the school to help her get an abortion. So trying to imply that the school is doing abortions is quite a reach in this case.

meat0918		2012-03-13 02:16:07 PM

2 votes:

Enough is enough.

I want these motherfarking Dominionst Christians out of our motherfarking public school system.

GET THE FARK OUT YOU BLATANT VIOLATORS OF THE CONSTITUTION!

jackiepaper		2012-03-13 01:58:37 PM

2 votes:

sadly, I fronted a christian/straight edge punk band in high school. then i realized that booze and sex and drugs were both fun and real, and God was neither.

Ringshadow		2012-03-13 01:57:49 PM

2 votes:

DRFS Rich: RingShadow: Orphaned Land are probably a bit too "Old Testament" for them, if you catch my slightly anti-semite drift.

Why would I not be surprised if that was true.

The guys in the article don't sound like an actual band though. More like a mildly musical platform for religious douchebags.

thelordofcheese		2012-03-13 01:40:12 PM

2 votes:

Has subby forgotten P.O.D.?

swaniefrmreddeer		2012-03-13 12:00:07 PM

2 votes:

They had to know what was going to go down, and didn't care. The administrators involved need to lose their jobs.

Marcus Aurelius		2012-03-13 11:11:26 AM

2 votes:

He sounds like he's got a bright future scamming money from stupid people.

xrayspx		2012-03-14 12:40:09 AM

1 votes:

WhyteRaven74: [thumpandwhip.com image 190x274]

That's an old pic of Bradlee Dean, yeah he was going for the Axl Rose look, and I just find that hi-larious.

I always love seeing that pic:

Noise noise noise.
Smokin weed, smokin weed.
Doin' coke, drinkin beers.
Drinkin beers, beers beers.
Rollin' fatties, smokin blunts.
Who smokes the blunts? We smoke the blunts.
Rollin' blunts and smokin um

Ionessa		2012-03-13 09:54:42 PM

1 votes:

Jim from Saint Paul: jigger: Jim from Saint Paul: This was THE stuff in my house.

Oh and this VHS got watched about 1,000 times too.

OMFG I had forgotten all about that shiat.

I have seen this shiat live. I had no choice. It was in the late 80s.

Carmen, damn, what a pile of shiat.

CarmAn.

His house was filled with every occultic symbol you could fathom; Hanging pentagrams and horoscope signs, a Ouija board and dungeons and dragons game set on the table, a crystal ball with an incandescent shine.

I'm ashamed to say that I read that in Carman's voice, and with the musical background going on in my head. Yeah... Had that VHS in my house while growing up.

Bathia_Mapes		2012-03-13 07:55:42 PM

1 votes:

John 8
1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4 and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" 6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.

But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

9 At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

11 "No one, sir," she said.

"Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."

PsiChick		2012-03-13 05:27:22 PM

1 votes:

Exception Collection: PsiChick: kingoomieiii: New rule- if an "Inspiration speaking group" wants to separate the staff from the students, you say "no". No exceptions. If they INSIST on having the students alone, you kick them the fark out and don't invite them back.

THIS. Good lord, how is this not law already? They're lucky this was the worst that happened.

/Students at that school should probably remember their stranger danger lessons...
//I really hope a school this retarded gets shut down.

On subject, yes, this is absolutely true. Of course, I remember being aghast that my elementary school got MC Hammer to perform - and he played "Pray"! Not only was the music bad, but they were mixing religion & government - something I knew was bad even back then.

...I meant that they let anyone be alone with children. Schools are proxy parents legally. They can't leave children alone with strangers because it's dangerous. Christian or not, it was irresponsible for the adults to leave the room.

Joafu		2012-03-13 05:08:11 PM

1 votes:

I knew a kid who wrote a virginity rap who then played bass for a 'Christian Death Metal' band. Last I knew he was down in Minneapolis area, so I'm getting a nauseous kick. The lyrics were as brilliant as the concept of Christian death metal: "I don't want sex, I don't need sex, get the sex out of my hex, it's a vex, I don't want it."

/bonus: a classmate told this kid that proper masturbation requires a mixture of applesauce and vinegar. I guess it makes sense that a "gritty-squints" rub might turn someone onto the whole celibacy thing.

Wayne 985		2012-03-13 04:42:38 PM

1 votes:

Tip to school administrators: Google someone before they come to speak for you.

wambu		2012-03-13 04:37:16 PM

1 votes:

Pincy: So what did they do for the boys? Yes, I understand that girls are the ones who get pregnant but isn't there anything we can do to shame the boys into abstaining from sex as well?

Not really.

But Jocelyn Elders got fired for suggesting an alternative. So there's that.

MusicMakeMyHeadPound		2012-03-13 04:23:49 PM

1 votes:

Pincy: lordaction: But liberals have no problem providing abortions for underage girls via schools without gaining the consent or informing the parents.

How about both sides just quit and let the schools just teach.

Are there public schools that do abortions? I wasn't aware that this was the case but you never know.

Oh yeah, sure. My cousin got this as a homework assignment in home economics. She had to get knocked up and get an abortion.

The final in that class was especially rough since it was cumulative - she had to bake a cake, conduct an orgy and balance the checkbook.

/I wish I had a class like that to prepare me for the real world

I should be in the kitchen		2012-03-13 04:17:37 PM

1 votes:

Thank you fundies for creating the next generation of feminists! When I was a teen, I naively believed the women's rights movement was behind us, and that I would enjoy equality in adulthood. Young me never thought this BS would be occurring in the 21st century.

namegoeshere		2012-03-13 04:07:02 PM

1 votes:

Callous: Pincy: Callous: And I am really fine with this law. I'd rather that then have a young girl forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term and delivery because her parents wish it.

Agreed, who do these parents think they are, the state? They should have no hand in making healthcare decisions about their own kids.

Well, apparently the parents aren't doing that good of a job in the first place because their daughter is pregnant.

Exactly. And I'm sure that telling her to lie to her parents will have absolutely no I'll effects on her relationship with her parents or her psychological health. It's not like an unwanted pregnancy and abortion is a big event in her life or anything. It's so much better to have her lie and keep secrets from them. Besides if she does suffer any ill emotional or psychological effects we can just take her to a shrink without her parents knowledge or consent and tell her to lie and keep secrets about that too.

It's a much smaller life event than a full term pregnancy and birth.

Pincy		2012-03-13 03:49:34 PM

1 votes:

Callous: And I am really fine with this law. I'd rather that then have a young girl forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term and delivery because her parents wish it.

Agreed, who do these parents think they are, the state? They should have no hand in making healthcare decisions about their own kids.

Well, apparently the parents aren't doing that good of a job in the first place because their daughter is pregnant.

gameshowhost		2012-03-13 03:40:39 PM

1 votes:

WhyteRaven74: talulahgosh: are there non-christian rap metal bands?

Did you miss 1998?

NO ONE MISSES THE MUSIC OF 1998

D:

PsiChick		2012-03-13 03:37:04 PM

1 votes:

kingoomieiii: New rule- if an "Inspiration speaking group" wants to separate the staff from the students, you say "no". No exceptions. If they INSIST on having the students alone, you kick them the fark out and don't invite them back.

THIS. Good lord, how is this not law already? They're lucky this was the worst that happened.

/Students at that school should probably remember their stranger danger lessons...
//I really hope a school this retarded gets shut down.

santadog		2012-03-13 03:18:55 PM

1 votes:

xmasbaby		2012-03-13 02:56:55 PM

1 votes:

Bpjosep: also, anything called "Sons of _____" is never a good thing

Except for "Sons of the Pioneers"!

Son, if I knew where you lived, AND it was just down the street from me, I would toilet paper your yard in a heartbeat!

Evil Kirk vs Bad Ash		2012-03-13 02:52:25 PM

1 votes:

In all of Christian music there has been a total of THREE good bands.

Starflyer 59
images.wikia.com

Crash Rickshaw
a2.mzstatic.com

mewithoutyou
www.cdeuroxpress.com

They seem to avoid the sucking due to not just singing about Jesus over and over and over, if at all.

WanPhat		2012-03-13 02:47:12 PM

1 votes:

Crewmannumber6: genepool lifeboat: thelordofcheese: Has subby forgotten P.O.D.?

Collective Soul would make an easier crossover into christan music. A lot of their lyrics lean in that direction.

Their biggest (only?) hit was written by a couple very insider Christian rock guys.

EdNortonsTwin		2012-03-13 02:46:20 PM

1 votes:

I have one of the old Stryper basses; Fender Precision; frankenstein of late 60s and 70s parts; ash body; heavy bass, heavy sound. Great instrument Back in the day when I'd play it a lot, that bass would stay in tune for a month at a time.

The Styrper paint job still stands, though I have it covered with black sign adhesive.
Plug that in to an Ampeg rig, and you'd think Thor hit the ground with his hammer.

2wolves		2012-03-13 02:40:34 PM

1 votes:

This is the same cat who is suing Rachel Maddow.

I'd love to be in that court room.

Vash's Apprentice		2012-03-13 02:39:41 PM

1 votes:

Pants full of macaroni!!: Best Christian metal band I'm aware of is Believer. First saw them when they were touring with Bolt Thrower and some other band (Sacrifice?), and they blew them both away. Plus they developed their own distinctive sound, instead of trying to sound like "the Christian version of [fill in name of secular artist]" - and they're less preachy than most.

Submission Red (new window) is surprisingly good.

kungfu jesus with a side of lime		2012-03-13 02:31:20 PM

1 votes:

no love for the yellow and black attack?
gunshyassassin.com

Omnivorous		2012-03-13 02:30:09 PM

1 votes:

FTFA: the band also targeted the GLBT community, showing pictures of Elton John and assailing his sexuality.

That's Sir Elton John to you hicks.

Pants full of macaroni!!		2012-03-13 02:26:41 PM

1 votes:

Best Christian metal band I'm aware of is Believer. First saw them when they were touring with Bolt Thrower and some other band (Sacrifice?), and they blew them both away. Plus they developed their own distinctive sound, instead of trying to sound like "the Christian version of [fill in name of secular artist]" - and they're less preachy than most.

res_nihil		2012-03-13 02:21:00 PM

1 votes:

Ringshadow: As someone who listens to symphonic and progressive metal (and sometimes black metal), metal music is actually pretty biblical at times. Seriously, why not listen to Orphaned Land?

That being said, if this was me, I'd have started demanding my parents be called. This is seriously wrong.

Living Sacrifice proved you can ape the hell out of Slayer while talking about Jesus and not suck. I wonder what this guy's excuse is?

Phins		2012-03-13 02:14:43 PM

1 votes:

I don't see the problem. The school brought them in to talk about bullying. So they talked about bullying as in "here's how you bully someone" and gave demonstrations.

BurnShrike		2012-03-13 02:12:38 PM

1 votes:

MonkeyDavid: Best sentence in the article: "But public schools are not the place to spread it."

The back seat of your dad's Taurus is more appropriate.

MoronLessOff		2012-03-13 02:12:11 PM

1 votes:

bruegel		2012-03-13 02:09:54 PM

1 votes:

Bpjosep: also, anything called "Sons of _____" is never a good thing

I whole heartedly disagree with you. Sons of Anarchy is a great show, even if it is a biker themed soap opera.

frizzo		2012-03-13 02:09:24 PM

1 votes:

BurnShrike FTW.

At their best, the Christian Rockers sound like slightly worse versions of Pearl Jam. It makes me feel a bit 666-ish to say that, but I just have to.

Dimensio		2012-03-13 02:06:24 PM

1 votes:

Pants full of macaroni!!: Isn't Sons Of Liberty also the name of the right-wing side project of Iced Earth's Jon Schaffer? Any connection there?

"Sons of Liberty" was the worst of the Metal Gear Solid series.

BurnShrike		2012-03-13 02:05:23 PM

1 votes:

Notice how it's called "Sons of Liberty", because if you're female you don't get any. Now stop being a slut and submit to your husband.

cfreak		2012-03-13 02:05:04 PM

1 votes:

Jim from Saint Paul: DC Talk?

*clicks*

Nope.

DC Talk was never metal, was barely rap, and hasn't existed in a long time either way.

emersonbiggins		2012-03-13 01:56:47 PM

1 votes:

Couldn't be gayer than
farm4.static.flickr.com

/warm

Encryptshun		2012-03-13 01:55:54 PM

1 votes:

When I was in HS in the late 80s, a "Christian, Just-Say-No-to-Drugs" band came to give us a motivational and inspirational concert. Two days later, they were pulled over by the Iowa State Patrol and were discovered to have over a kilogram of cocaine in their van.

In hindsight, they were more of a "Just-Say-No-to-Drugs-Unless-You-Buy-Them-From-Us" band.

Martian_Astronomer		2012-03-13 01:54:33 PM

1 votes:

discgolfguru: Jim from Saint Paul: DC Talk?

Oh my god, I forgot about them. What a nightmare.

Crap, I'd finally forgotten about them too. Thanks a lot, dick.

(I was actually dragged to see them live when I was 13. It was a "teen" Billy Graham crusade.)

LeroyBourne		2012-03-13 01:52:00 PM

1 votes:

It would have been funnier if half the women raised their hands and told them they all ready have sex, can we go back to study hall?

Bpjosep		2012-03-13 01:47:39 PM

1 votes:

also, anything called "Sons of _____" is never a good thing

fringedmyotis		2012-03-13 01:46:05 PM

1 votes:

"Instead, parents said, the band told girls in the audience that "they were going to have mud on their wedding dresses if they weren't virgins." In a break-out session for girls, the band told them to save themselves for their husbands and assume a submissive role in marriage. Then the girls were forced to chant a mantra about virginity."

Protip: do not take life advice from somebody that has chosen to suck.

Ringshadow		2012-03-13 01:45:10 PM

1 votes:

As someone who listens to symphonic and progressive metal (and sometimes black metal), metal music is actually pretty biblical at times. Seriously, why not listen to Orphaned Land?

That being said, if this was me, I'd have started demanding my parents be called. This is seriously wrong.