It’s just like a movie, but much more violent, a hell of a lot shorter, and with crumby metal music playing.? What is it?? You guessed it – heavy metal Christian music videos!? Nothing says, “I love Jesus and I genuinely care about the well being of other people,” like death metal and disturbing images of murder and mutilated animals (you know basically everything the Christian Church stands for).? But I do have to give the bands props for finding a new way to, “praise the Lord,” by getting a bunch of crazed teens to punch each other in a mosh pit.
The first band up is called The Reaping.? Everyone in the band is thrashing around playing their music, but in-between the fantastic shots of the would-be-singer, “singing,” there are disturbing images of a decapitated pig.? Eventually, after more headbanging, it is evident that there is some sort of butchering going on for a feast; so the pig head was for dinner, it’s ok!? Then the man at the head of a table keels over and dies.? Oh no it’s a poising!? Just like the twelve apostles did to the Pharisees right?? Did I miss something here?? Why does a, “Christian,” music video have someone being poisoned in it?? Oh, sorry, I forgot that Jesus poisoned people all the time, that’s what the Sermon on the Mount was all about, right?
I’ve never been a big fan of music videos; short, plotless, confusing films have never really been my bag, but i have to say the next video intrigued me.? It’s by a rather popular band called Norma Jean.? The video isn’t necessarily violent but has a what-the-fuck-is-going-on feel to it.? I can just see the producer pitching the idea to the band: “Ok, so there is this underground bunker, right?? Yeah and there are two really skinny boys riding stationary bikes that are powering machines and there is a screen on the back wall showing weird plants and animals.? Rad, right?”? There are some mild torture scenes where they inject the kids with hypodermic needles and what-not, but nothing too bad.? Although, one has to wonder what an underground testing facility would have to do with Jesus, maybe Nike was in charge of this video?
The church I grew up in used to brag about how they, “loved everyone,” and that violence is not the answer, yada, yada, yada; everyone has heard this schpeil.? I understand that in order to convert all the young guns they need to be hip-for-Christ, but I thought most of the time the Church tried to hide all the horrible violent acts they committed in the past.? The really ironic thing is that one of the commercials in between videos is about being a, “peaceful warrior.”? So why the violence?? Why decapitated animals and tortured kids on bikes?? Do these videos have anything to do with religion at all?? I turned off the television confused at the meaning behind the videos.? So if I am missing something here, if there are biblical references that I am missing out on, please let me know, let me in on the secret.
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