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RelentlessOblivion Grand Master

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Re: Ban the user above you! I always find it interesting when certain religious types say that faith and metal cannot co-exist, or that listening to metal is inherently bad/evil and that to listen to metal ensures that one will go to hell, I'm sure you'll agree that most metal is entirely harmless and not evil in any way, shape or form, and now I've gone off in a totally random direction banned for making me go off on a random quotient

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Re: Ban the user above you! Banned because this quotient is interesting.

I always find it interesting when certain religious types say that faith and metal cannot co-exist' date=' or that listening to metal is inherently bad/evil and that to listen to metal ensures that one will go to hell, I'm sure you'll agree that most metal is entirely harmless and not evil in any way, shape or form, and now I've gone off in a totally random direction[/quote'] Well, Church of Christ assume that because music ISN'T mentioned in Paul's instruction to one of his congregations one can only have vocal music. Of course, anyone reasonably well trained in logic would see that this is a fallacy of ambiguity. However, one can at least say that it is somewhat Biblically based. The rest of the opposition to metal is cultural and has nothing to do with theology. As for it ensuring that you go to hell, that's absolute rubbish. No sin ensures that you go to hell unless you incessantly commit it and never repent of it. As far as I can tell, metal is generally about introspection, personal responsibility, liberty, making the most of life and fighting for what you believe in. That can take a wide variety of forms.
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Re: Ban the user above you! well historically the catholic chuch maintained that there were seven sins which so offended God that one could never be absolved of them, these being Pride, Anger, Envy, Lust, Sloth, Greed and Gluttony (the seven deadly sins) later betrayal was adopted as the unofficial "eighth deadly sin" but I am not sure if this is still the view of the church. anyway now I've really gotten off topic so once again banned because the death growl in my head told me to lol

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well historically the catholic chuch maintained that there were seven sins which so offended God that one could never be absolved of them, these being Pride, Anger, Envy, Lust, Sloth, Greed and Gluttony (the seven deadly sins) later betrayal was adopted as the unofficial "eighth deadly sin" but I am not sure if this is still the view of the church. anyway now I've really gotten off topic so once again banned because the death growl in my head told me to lol
We're the only two on, I think as long as we keep it vaguely on topic we'll be fine. Banned because if they adopted betrayal as an eighth sin, Dante could probably sue for copyright... I'm not sure if that's true, I think that they simply required a LOT more penance than usual. Still though, the only sin on here which might relate to metal is Anger and even then righteous anger is perfectly permissible within Christianity. Christ overturned the tables of the money-changers when the temple was overrun with people trying to make a buck. I think I'll be off to bed, I have thoroughly enjoyed this conversation but it's quite late. Nighty night.
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Banned because you've changed your avatar and I don't know what it means.
It's the sigil of Lucifer, I believe it originates from some old grimoire. It's currently used often as a symbol for Luciferians and others who want to avoid the cliched inverted pentagram. Hope it doesn't offend you - if it does, I will remove it. Offense wasn't my intention, I just like the symbol, and am very interested in that area of things. Banned because I just bought a Blut Aus Nord album.
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It's the sigil of Lucifer, I believe it originates from some old grimoire. It's currently used often as a symbol for Luciferians and others who want to avoid the cliched inverted pentagram. Hope it doesn't offend you - if it does, I will remove it. Offense wasn't my intention, I just like the symbol, and am very interested in that area of things. Banned because I just bought a Blut Aus Nord album.
Banned because it's about fucking time you got around to checking them out.
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