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Slayer's "Cult" Religion

May 25, 2007

These lyrics are exactly why Slayer is my favorite band:

http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/slayer/cult.html


Allow me to describe a few points of interest:

Oppression is the holy law
In God I distrust
In time His monuments will fall
Like ashes to dust
Is war and greed the masters plan?
The bible's where it all began
Its propaganda sells despair
And spreads the virus everywhere

I believe this part is referring to the downturn of religion in the future. People are getting smarter all the time, history is the proof. Religion does nothing but spread dispair.

The pestilence is Jesus Christ
There never was a sacrifice
No man upon the crucifix
Beware the cult of purity
Infectious imbecility
I've made my choice. Six six six

Clearly the author wants nothing to do with this Jesus Christ person. It is considered imbecilic, this "cult" of purity — Poetic even. Tom Wolfe stated, "A cult is a religion with no political power."

Corruption breeds the pedophile
Don't pray for the priest
Confession finds the lonely child
God preys on the weak
You think your soul can still be saved
I think you're fucking miles away
Scream out loud here's where you begin
Forgive me father for I have sinned

Lets not forget the pedophile priests, they who truly deserve to burn. The connection that is drawn between a priest in confession and it's natural magnetism to lonely children, Slayer really has a case on the priests, the bad ones anyway. Forgive me who?

The war on terror just drags along
My war with God is growing strong
His propaganda sells despair
And spreads the violence everywhere

Pretty simple. How many wars have been about religion compared to those that weren't?

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better think twice before giving God the finger...

By: Paul <palla at yahoo dot com>

Posted: 1 year ago

Notice that Slayer doesnt deny the deity of God. They believe but have chosen to turn to God in hatred. The key is they DO believe and know what their final judgement will be.

better think twice before giving God the finger...

Actually...

By: Rev. Dan <doktahworm at gmail dot com>

Posted: 11 months ago

I'm late to the party, I know, but...

I find it interesting that Slayer's Tom Araya is a practicing Catholic. In "Heavy Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" (great documentary) Araya and King talk about their message in contrast to Norweigan Death Metal bands, and it's quite apparent that they're about the ideas (rejecting conformity to non-reason and the whore that religion is) and are glad the imagery sells, since that gives them kick-ass jobs. (Total paraphrase, but that's what I got from it.)

Norweigan Death Metal bands are into burning down churches and a very media-hyped version of "Satanism." One of the Norwegian guys they interviewed was absolutely hilarious because it looked like he was trying to be shocking the way Ozzy used to be, but was dead-serious about it (and he looked cartoonishly absurd) and about 20+ years too late. I'm inclined to think that he'd probably be scary to Christianists since most of them have little to no sense of humor about anything related to religion and wouldn't be able to appreciate the over-the-topness.

I don't really see any inconsistency with Araya being a practicing Catholic and singing Slayer songs. A majority of music is written in a manner that suggests that it's the singer's actual perspective, though that's not always the case. (Greg Brown's "Lord, I Have Made You A Place In My Heart" is a good example of this.)

I'd suggest, Paul, that the way Araya/Slayer believes in god and the god they may/may not believe in is quite different from yours. God definitely exists as a social construct and as represented by the Bible and Contemporary American Christians deserves far more scorn and ridicule than Slayer or the myriad of Slayer fans could ever heap upon it. Religion truly is blind obedience and stupidity, and I'm proud to stand with Slayer against it.

Explaining irony and sarcasm to Christians is often a futile effort since they usually take everything very literally. It's quite sad that people who profess to be "choosing full/rich life" are so unwilling to actually live one that isn't based on fear of actually experiencing it.

Slayer rules.

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