When does it all end?

I find it interesting that people are always calling things demonic or Illuminati symbolism. I get it. You have nothing else to bitch about. You have to tarnish everything people do because you have nothing better to do. Personally I don't care what the symbolism is in music videos or in performances. If you are afraid that something like that will influence the youth of today, then maybe you should start at home and not worry about what other people are doing.

Now I don't want to lump ALL Christians in the same group because not every Christian is close-minded and allergic to acceptance, however, most of the people I hear bitching about this claim to be Christians. I see it everywhere, though. Jay Z had Illuminati symbolism in his performance says one guy. Such and such is going to hell for the demonic lyrics in his song. My favorite is "play this song backwards, they have demonic phrases". Does everything have to have a hidden meaning?

Now what got me started on this was the fact that I saw a video on Facebook today from Good Fight Ministries. Now I know this will give them some press and I am OK with that. What I am not OK with is people trying to tell you what to see and that only their perception of something is true. Now is it possible they are correct? Well sure it is. Is it possible that these situations are totally benign and they are just reading into things? That is also true. I am not foolish enough to say that there are no Satanic messages in music nor are there any Satanic people trying to get their message across in music. I AM saying that not everyone is trying to add people to their cult or religion through music and videos.

Well these folks at Good Fight Ministries made a video stating that Katy Perry was, and I am paraphrasing, a vehicle for Satan trying to recruit the unsuspecting youth into Satanism. At the time of writing this article I haven't been able to find all of the interviews the clips were taken from. SO I can't say it was taken out of context. However, I have heard some musicians and artists say "I sold my soul to the devil" and mean that they are now a part of the machine that is about money not music anymore. I wouldn't take it literally meaning they sold their soul to Satan so they could have the fame and fortune.

With all that said I am not blind. I do see the symbols in performances. I do see the likenesses to these things people are complaining about. To me it is just entertainment. If I am doing my job at home to show my children what is right and wrong then I don't have to worry about society "corrupting" my children with their so-called perversions. This brings me back to the statement I made a million times. How does it hurt you if someone else wants to lead a life of sin, if that is what you call it by them being gay or using satanic imagery? I think just let people live their lives and not be so judgmental. Whatever happened to the sayings, "Only God can judge" and "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone".  The aforementioned video is posted below if you would like to take a look. This is just one assholes opinion. Feel free to make your own. It is not my job to tell you how to live or what to believe.

The Battle Will Rage On Forever.

I was sitting in Psychology class today and we were discussing bullying. This is a very sensitive topics these days with all the children committing suicide or running up in schools with weapons. We were all just talking about what makes a bully tick. Is it a broken home, abusive parents, were they bullied at a younger age, is there a mental issue, or do they just take pleasure in hurting someone else, physically and/or emotionally? This is a topic I think should be covered but that isn’t going to be in this article.

One of my classmates brought up the fact that things have gotten worse in school since they took the bibles out of schools. Now let me be perfectly clear on this, I don’t care what type of religion you practice. I don’t care if you have a lack of religion. You can practice and worship whatever you want. That is part of the freedom America affords you. That is why men and women die on the front lines every day. They die so that you can have the freedom to do whatever the hell you want at any time.

Now on to what I do care about. I care about the freedom to not have to be subjected to your religion if I don’t want to. I care about not turning the morning announcements into a situation that is going to make even one person feel uncomfortable. If you want to pray in school then I say fine. If you want to read a bible verse in school, fine. However, if you are going to read from one religious book then you should read from a book from every religion that has a member of that religion in your school.

Is it too much to ask that people respect others enough not to shove their religion or beliefs down someone else throat? A prime example of what pisses me off about this stuff is this right here. A local school wanted to have a prayer session before every sporting event. Alright cool, if no one complains about it then feel free. Well this is where the issue comes in folks. Someone felt uncomfortable that they were being subjected to something that they didn’t believe in and they complained. Was it a valid complaint? Hell I don’t know. That information never got released. I don’t know if they were being an asshole or if they really were offended because they didn’t believe in prayer or they had a different religion than what was being thrown around at this present time.

Well as all the smoke cleared around this complaint the school decided not to have prayer over the PA system and have a silent prayer on the track around the field. You would think that was a compromise right? Oh hell no it wasn’t. Someone at the event thought it would be a good idea to call the news and bring attention to the fact they were having prayer before the game and it was threatened by ONE person who didn’t want it to happen. Now I went to this school when I was in high school. This is an area driven on the idea of community. This is an area where people used to love each other no matter what they did. This is an area that used to lift people up when they felt down or were facing a difficult situation. This is an area I used to be proud to call home. Now I am disappointed to see this once great community reduced to making such a spectacle of this situation.

I said all of that to say this. Has it really gotten that bad in today’s society that we have to make people feel like an outcast because they don’t believe the same thing we do? Do we have to make people feel less than just because they don’t live by the same moral code? People say this nation was based on Christianity and call America a Christian nation. Is this how the good book says people should act? I don’t do a lot of reading through the bible these days but I do know this, God never turned anyone away. Hell when Jesus was hanging on the cross he was forgiving two criminals that hung beside him. People say they have Christian principles and some actually do. I find that most are just judgmental people who find happiness in making others feel like shit. If you are going to claim to be something then abide by the principles it is based on. Otherwise you are just a hypocrite. I know this one jumped a little all over the place but I had to get this one off my chest.