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Interesting, September 2, 2011
This review is from: Painted Black: From Drug Killings to Heavy Metal : The Alarming True Story of How Satanism Is Terrorizing Our Communities (Hardcover)
I still listen to rock....but the author makes some pretty good points of the stuff. Good read, very clear information.
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A total JOKE!!!, August 4, 1998
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This review is from: Painted Black: From Drug Killings to Heavy Metal : The Alarming True Story of How Satanism Is Terrorizing Our Communities (Hardcover)
This is great for a laugh. Never have I read a book or "documentary" so misinformative. Usually authors like to research a subject thoroughly before writing a book on it. But not this guy. He figured he would just go at it and improvise. Well, it shows! It's the Geraldo of literature. Carl makes references to bands like Sultic Frost (???...Get the name right, it'll give you more credibility!) and other metal bands in a feeble attempt to prove his point; Satanism is bigger than disco. Stay away from this one if you are looking for anything factual. However, if you like books with countless references to "Chinese Communists," then this is your pick!
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one of the funniest books ever written, April 20, 2011
This review is from: Painted Black: From Drug Killings to Heavy Metal : The Alarming True Story of How Satanism Is Terrorizing Our Communities (Hardcover)
seriously, this book i'm sure is on every conservative christian leader's bookshelf and is quote warmly and accurately in their sermons and 'raps' with their church youth ... i'm equally sure the youth sit there wide-eyed as if they are watching a horror movie, except, it's even scarier because THIS is 'real'
ummm ... not quite ... none of this is real ... it's a fabrication that was created to:
1.) make these christians seem as if they are on a holy crusade to save not only the souls of our nation's youth but, dare i say it (DARE! DARE!), the soul of a nation itself
2.) it really helps to fill those collection plates and get those parishioners tithing (that's 10 percent of your gross income people, not after taxes) so that the war (and yes it is a war) between the forces of evil and the army of god is properly financed
3.) to turn people into sheeple
It's a sad world we live in when this type of 'true story' actually is taken seriously on any level ... heavy metal music (and its sub-genres et al) is not responsible for murder or suicide or young people turning away from the church ... if anything, more suicides can be attributed to the close-minded and always-rightness of the church leading to young gay people committing suicide or turning to substance abuse for relief as well as driving young people away from the church in general with these attitudes ... i have never seen people who were so sure they were right and everyone else was wrong than the conservative christian cults in this country .. yes, cults ... when you are brainwashed to the extent that these people are it is no longer a church or a system of beliefs but it is a cult plain and simple ... sadly they get a tax-free status for this behavior ...
but if you are enlightened and of a free mind, i'm sure you'll find yourself laughing out loud and perhaps even rolling on the floor laughing from the freakishly earnest and 'because god told me so' statements in this book ... just find the absolute cheapest used copy of the book possible ... it's not worth that much really and buying a used copy keeps a bit less money going into the coffers of these bigoted, hateful, and sick people
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