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Is Slipknot Christian or Anti Christian? Can Christians Listen to Slipknot?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ph413" data-source="post: 74371014" data-attributes="member: 390579"><p>Thanks everyone for your replies, everyone's opinion was greately appreciated.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I wouldn't describe Slipknot as making me sin. To be honest, none of the bands I listen to do. It's just that I enjoy the energy and that metal sound. Will definitely look into bands you listed, but I'll have to skip white metal. That's something I just can't dig into. Some songs I can stand regarding the music, but some I tried listening long ago and just few seconds into and it started giving me creeps. That and death metal is something I'm not "grown" enough to enjoy at the moment. But that regarding secular music is my point as well. Those mainstream artists are more anti-scriptural than a lot of metal bands. I mean, if we want to take it so strictly, anything that's not strictly christianity directed is anti-christian aka satanic right? But, my take on this is, and I try to be as much objective as I can, as long as an artist / band don't mock, insult God etc. and as long as they aren't glorifying satan, I think that they are more-less "safe" to listen to. I mean, my problem with Slipknot is mostly stuff that could be taken as satanic. Goat head, which is like a symbol of satanism on cover, (even though goat is an animal but we all know the point goat has in metal) some satan references in lyrics. I mean, a lot of the lyrics are dark themed but they aren't making me want to go and kill anyone etc, it's just that I enjoy the strenght of the songs but those blatant imagery is what made me think a bit more about it. There are also softer songs so I coulnd't be totally with "ok, totally dark, imagery fully supported, won't listen to", I wanted to take everything in consideration. My current stand is that I will proceed, but with caution. If I get more info that would support satanism theory, I'll stop listening to them.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes, that's undeniably true. But, as I said above, there are two sides to it. I mean, consider The Heretic Anthem and Snuff. Who could've thought both songs are from the same band. Now, regarding satanic references in lyrics, so far as I've listened it's most likely something similar to this (and they don't appear that much often). For example, in Heretic Anthem, there's a line that says "If you're 555, then I'm 666". My initial thoughts were that they openly admitted satanism there but a bit of research and it turns out it's directed as a hate message to music industry and other artists being sellouts so I guess their references are more metaphorical like this than they actually are real but I haven't totally did my research so I can't say it with 100% security.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ph413, post: 74371014, member: 390579"] Thanks everyone for your replies, everyone's opinion was greately appreciated. I wouldn't describe Slipknot as making me sin. To be honest, none of the bands I listen to do. It's just that I enjoy the energy and that metal sound. Will definitely look into bands you listed, but I'll have to skip white metal. That's something I just can't dig into. Some songs I can stand regarding the music, but some I tried listening long ago and just few seconds into and it started giving me creeps. That and death metal is something I'm not "grown" enough to enjoy at the moment. But that regarding secular music is my point as well. Those mainstream artists are more anti-scriptural than a lot of metal bands. I mean, if we want to take it so strictly, anything that's not strictly christianity directed is anti-christian aka satanic right? But, my take on this is, and I try to be as much objective as I can, as long as an artist / band don't mock, insult God etc. and as long as they aren't glorifying satan, I think that they are more-less "safe" to listen to. I mean, my problem with Slipknot is mostly stuff that could be taken as satanic. Goat head, which is like a symbol of satanism on cover, (even though goat is an animal but we all know the point goat has in metal) some satan references in lyrics. I mean, a lot of the lyrics are dark themed but they aren't making me want to go and kill anyone etc, it's just that I enjoy the strenght of the songs but those blatant imagery is what made me think a bit more about it. There are also softer songs so I coulnd't be totally with "ok, totally dark, imagery fully supported, won't listen to", I wanted to take everything in consideration. My current stand is that I will proceed, but with caution. If I get more info that would support satanism theory, I'll stop listening to them. Yes, that's undeniably true. But, as I said above, there are two sides to it. I mean, consider The Heretic Anthem and Snuff. Who could've thought both songs are from the same band. Now, regarding satanic references in lyrics, so far as I've listened it's most likely something similar to this (and they don't appear that much often). For example, in Heretic Anthem, there's a line that says "If you're 555, then I'm 666". My initial thoughts were that they openly admitted satanism there but a bit of research and it turns out it's directed as a hate message to music industry and other artists being sellouts so I guess their references are more metaphorical like this than they actually are real but I haven't totally did my research so I can't say it with 100% security. [/QUOTE]
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