Reasons you will hate me

Oh my... best to be EXTREMELY cautious. That explains a lot though.

Wouldn't the best revenge be to make teh hot sex with Katy?

But I don't want to do Katy Steele. I want to touch Luke on the bottom. Even if his current girlfriend's name is Snappy Dolphin (poet).

this is one of the [many] problems with this new breed of happy-clappers. when crazy, born-again, christian kids look the same as nice, normal, fucked-up little emo kids, it's hard to tell what's what.

i'm against it.

I'd say it's just some kind of irritating affectation. Nothing to be concerned about.

hey even dylan went through his whacked-out evangelical period in the late 70's and pronounced himself a born-again christian in 78' - two crap christian albums followed and ole' bobby obstinately refused to play any song he wrote before he found the light. he even gave up the grog! by 1981 bob came to his senses but then went on a Judaic bender and spent some time in Israel - photographed praying at the western wall n' all that. but these days he's doing just fine - still smoking, drinking and writing great songs.

don't worry about ole' luke steel - he'll return and write some great fucking songs about the evils of hillsong in a few years.

let's face it. most alt-country heads are closet fucking bible belters.

Mudchute, Slow Train Coming is a great Dylan album, it's full of some of the mot venemous stuff dylan put to paper, although I didn't tend to agree with his views on homsexuals that he would sermonise in concert.

Nick Cave's biggest inspiration seems to be the bible, I wouldn't worry about it to much. But if Luke starts hanging with the smirk it might be time to pull him aside.

mudchute stole my comment. But my general theory is that just because the artist is a toolbag doesn't mean that you can't enjoy their work. Ryan Adams and James Brown as exhibits A and B. I think it almost falls under the heading of "wrong crushes".

That said, if Sleepy Jackson start putting out songs titled "Family First Is Where It's At", I might cancel my fanclub membership.

I just think Nick Cave, PJ Harvey et al reference The Bible because there's so much great material there. There's a lot of blood, carnage and general hardcore shit in the old testy.
Plus we are, unfortunately, a Judeo-Christian society. It's a good place to start when trying to understand the craziness that is The West.
But I agree with MKSP, it's very hard to tell these days. It's also a tad worrying.
Since when did church become cool?

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A probably too late Friday question:

What did Peter Cundall think of American Psycho? I know he likes blood and bone.


"That's your bloomin' lot!"

*snaps secaturs menacingly towards Jackie Weaver's throat*

Oh for goodness* sake, people.

Will you stop equating Christianity with liking Peter Costello and being down on the gays (a phrase that is wonderfully ambiguous and if taken literally could really freak out our friends at Hillsong).

Being a Christian is actually about believing that you should put the needs of others ahead of your own and about recognizing a spiritual dimension to life. It has nothing to do with hating anyone. Specifically, there is no reason at all to hate gay people.

None.

Any Christians who are currently doing so can just stop it.

And why is it that commenters on this blog will leap to the defence of just about any organisation, including the Liberal party (and, with surprising levels of passion, the Hooley Dooleys) but I’m apparently the only Christian reading this thing? Time to stand up and be counted, lefty Christians of the blogosphere.

So in conclusion, I don't know anyone who wears jeans with ironed in creases, why would anyone do that?



*I’m trying to be a good Christian so I don’t want to say fuck**
** Like that. Shit***
***I’m going to stop this now because it’s all getting a little bit too “Love Actually”

OH MY GOD, CHRISTIANS ENJOY THE WORK OF HUGH GRANT.

Honestly, someone's religion is a very personal thing and is probably the least important thing about them.

NO WE DON'T!

ESPECIALLY NOT IN "NINE MONTHS"!!

I DID HOWEVER THINK THAT "THE ENGLISHMAN WHO WENT UP A HILL BUT CAME DOWN A MOUNTAIN" WAS QUITE CHARMING BUT THAT'S POSSIBLY BECAUSE I'M FROM WALES!!!

The only ‘thing worth doing™’ is playing your copy of The Jam’s Sound Affects album, or the Pixies - Wave Of Mutilation and forget about The Damned and The Church – ¡PERIOD!

Luke Steele's was born again long before his first record came out.

It's still bloody good music though.

*shrugs*

Being a Christian is actually about believing that you should put the needs of others ahead of your own and about recognizing a spiritual dimension to life.

Sorry to be a pedant about this, but that's not exactly true.

Being a Christian is about believing that there is an almighty creator, who in his infinite wisdom manifested in the body of a human male about 2000 years ago to tell people to be nice to each other.

He was summarily executed for his trouble, but in a George Romero-esque twist, rose from the grave and disappeared, (without any record of a penchant for BRAINS, in this case). This somehow paved the way for all us "sinners" (we're born into it, apparently) to have eternal life at the "Lord's" side by accepting this story as true.

Being nice to people and being spiritual was on people's minds a long time before Herod ordered a census, forcing young Maz and Jo to camp out in the shed one cold December night.

i'm not craig, you're not the only one, but I have a problem with Hillsong because they preach prosperity gospel, ie: you will be rewarded for your faith and if you have a shitty life it's because you don't have enough faith/aren't really a Christian.

To me, they also resemble the Bible Belters of the US who accept the policies and actions of any so-called Christian leader on the basis of a proclamation of faith, no matter how fascist the policies or actions may be.

To The Last Scientician

Firstly, I have been in awe of your online name for some time now.

Secondly, it’s not actually possible to include a complete definition of Christianity in the space of the average blog comment. I could have been more definitive, but I thought that posting Bible verses on this blog would amount to abusing Ms Fits’ hospitality, and there wasn’t space to include the whole text of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. The key point here is that being a Christian is not about hating or excluding people.

To Catbrian

I don’t know much about Hillsong, but if they are pushing that prosperity stuff and The Age has been accurately reporting on some of their views and behaviour, I share your concerns about these apparently misguided folk.

And also, thank you thank you thank you thank you.

There is one more thing that must be included in any discussion of religion and music.

This is important.

CREED ARE NOT A CHRISTIAN BAND AND THEY NEVER SAID THEY WERE.

Always thought the sleepy michael jackson were horrendously overrated.

Its not as bad as when Beck turned out to be a seisentologist. Whereupon any decent person turned their Beck CDs into drink coasters.

...
*turns up Striper record, recommences air guitar for God*

I wouldn't worry so much. The Sleepy Jackson are programming Rage tonight and luke steele is quite obviously off his fucking nut on some kind of drug. This contravenes the international Christian charter I belive. He is safe. (Or going to hell.)