demonic music

> Date: Thursday, August 4, 2005
> Time: 12:38 PM EST
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> Email address: xxxxxxx@aol.com
> Subject: website feedback
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> visitor_name2: Ryan
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> Comment: This is demonic music you should consider
> going to a church of christ and listen to your
> preacher you also should start thinking the devil
> cant help you make it to heaven you need Jesus
> Christ in your life and I pray for you as I pray for
> all. May god continue to bless all people and things
> needed in prayer because we cant make it on are on
> GOD is the Key, and I do believe when I die I want
> to make it to Paridise ( Heaven ).

Ryan,

well since you took the time to write me a letter I'm
going to hope that you'll take the time to read my
response.  I read, considered, and responded to yours
after all, and failing to show the same consideration
would be rather impolite.

The first thing is that you called my music "demonic,"
and I'm assuming you meant that term to be offensive.
thing is, doesn't that imply some sort of belief in
demons?  cuz i sure don't believe in demons, or hell
for that matter.  There is a critical distinction
between a satanist (someone who advocates for satan in
some sort of inverted christianity) and an agnostic
like myself.  I am not a satanist and am not
interested in advocating for satan because i don't
believe she/he/it exists.  As an agnostic i simply
refuse to believe that any religion has the complete
truth or the answers, and there are things I like and
dislike about all of them.  my music is a lot of
things, but demonic definitely is not one of them.

as far as going to heaven, i personally have no desire
AT ALL to spend eternity in "heaven" with a god so
small-minded, cruel, and fundamentally evil that
it/he/she is willing to send the majority of the words
population to someplace as horrible as the hell you
christians believe in.  in other words if your god
actually does exist (and I'm fairly sure he doesn't),
I would refuse to go to heaven even if he personally
invited me in.  I'd rather go to hell (which i'm
fairly sure does not exist either) then spend eternity
surrounded by bigots.

As far as i'm concerned, you can feel free to believe
in your god and do your best to live whatever type of
life seems moral to you - and that's just fine with
me.  I've known some genuinely good people who believe
in god and use that as a source of inspiration and
strength to help them do good in the world, and more
power to them!  I have absolutely no problem with
people believing in god or christianity (or islam or
juddhaism or buddhism, etc), my issues is that some
christians - apparently including you - are so
convinced that their (your) belief system is the only
one that holds any validity that they are willing to
commit all kinds of atrocities; not least of which is
consigning the majority of the worlds population that
does not agree with their particular religious views
to hell for an eternity of torment. 

At the point where you deny other people their basic
fundamental right to disagree with you and live their
own lives according to their own value systems, you
stop being a follower of Jesus of Nazareth (or
muhhamad or buddha) who all said that you should
"treat all men as you would like to be treated."

now THAT is demonic.

have a nice day,
emcee lynx

Comments

[K.]

Wadddup baby boy..

while I agree with 80% of what you wrote (consideration and condemnation ARE evil from any person/religion, etc., and the fundamental right of everyone to disagree), I disagree with your assessment of 'heaven' and Christian 'GOD'. And I'll tell you why.

The real TRUE GOD (and I include most religions name for him - Allah, Yaweh, etc.) is much like your parents. As much as it pains them, when you do something wrong, you need to be disciplined. Your parents, much like GOD, doesn't really WANT to discipline you, but often times we leave him NO CHOICE.

He set forth rules and guidelines and even sent his son to guide us to proper path to not only enlightenment, but to contentment. And what do we do, we go and KILL HIS SON. Whether or not you believe in GOD you have to understand that as a parent, what would you do if someone kills your son?

GOD made man in his image, this means that Man has a lot of qualities that GOD has. GOD gets angry (the Bible is riddled with obvious examples of this).

All GOD wants (just like any parent) is a RELATIONSHIP with his children.

GOD gave us the CHOICE. Have a relationship with him or go to hell. If you choose to go to hell, that's not GOD's fault, he gave YOU the choice.
So you cannot blame him for 'sending people to hell'. It's THEIR choice.

Just like you, I don't know what's gonna happen when I die. But that's where 'Faith' comes in, because Personally, I prefer to have 'eternal life insurance'.....

Just my two cents on the matter.

When we gonna put together some more tracks!!!!

Holla atcha boy...

KDubbs

[Lynx]

hey k, how's it going man? saw the comment you posted on the blog, thanks for hitting it up.

one of the things i appriciate about you is that you're one of those people i mentioned when i was talking about christians who believe in god and use that to do good in the world but aren't judgmental, the comment about not wanting to go to heaven in my response had more to do with that guys perception of heaven and his willingness to tell me i'm going to hell without ever having met me or talked to me then it did with christianity as a whole - i was saying that if heaven is full of people like him i'd rather not go there.

for whatever it's worth, if heaven does exist, (and i know you have faith that it does and i respect that) i think it'll contain people of all faiths and traditions - like you said, god has many names. for me, i believe in nature and in people, so my relationship with diety is mostly in the form of trying to help the people around me and fight for the things i believe in. when i die, if it turns out your right and there is a heaven and a personified god, i hope he/she will recognize that. as one of my quaker friends puts it "the best way to worship the creator is to take care of creation."

as far as music stuff, sorry i haven't gotten back at you, been hella distracted and not focussing on music stuff very well. if you've got any new instrumentals to throw at me though i'd like to start writing again, just hit me up.

be safe man,
lynx