A mom at school called me 'Satanic'.

I was talking with a few friends of mine after the bell rang. The buses had all not arrived yet, so we were being kept back. My saxophone in one hand, my binder in another, my friend and I got on the discussion of music.

We both dissed the same thing: Religious Pop Music. We were laughing about it. I'm no heavy-metal fan or anything like that, but the whole Jesus Pop Music is just lost on me (Sorry if I offended anyone!)

We keep on talking when a woman marches over to us. She's wearing a suit outfit, like she's just gotten off work. She has that horrible fake brown hair with fake yellow highlights, and coped with pink eyeshadow up to her eyebrows, she's quite a sight to behold. I happen to notice her kid is one I'm not friends with, and the car is a massive hummer.

"I could help but notice that you two were discussing music?" She asks.

"Yeah," Says my friend, "Your point?"

"Well, I would like to talk to you about your view on religous pop. From the looks of you, you could all use some of it. The music only talks about love. Jesus loves you, why can't you love him?"

"Yeah... well.... some of my music is about love." I say, pointing to my shirt. It proudly displays 'The Who' in bright bold letters.

"Your music is satanic, as is yours." She points to my friends Pink Floyd sweatshirt, "You should both be ashamed of yourselves."

We all stood in silence. About a minute later, I calmly say:

"Is this a bad time to tell you I'm a democrat?"

:rofl:

hits, followed by a couple of hours of Pink Floyd's "Animals" (with headphones!).

That would have got her head spinning...:headbang:

:eyes: Fool.

If not, please do! She may have a few choice words for the woman about her unsolicited (and unwelcome) comments.

Frankly, I have better things to do than harass my over-stressed mother with things like this. Besides, it's fun to talk smack to freepers who harass me in school. Nothing better.... well, maybe warm socks from the dryer, but you know what i mean.

Hey, BW! I haven't seen you around lately. Mucho hugs!

by that "person." :hug:

You will go far in life. You have the perception of a visionary.

Mmmmmmmm! Warm socks!

:applause:

:)

Why are DUer's goals mostly to get me to spurt whatever liquids I'm ingesting at the moment all over the computer screen?

Snort. :D

Y'see, if you spurt all over your screen enough times, you'll wind up shorting it out and you'll need a new one. We're only trying to drum up lots of new business...

Don't you just love faux Christians? The ones who know that everything's satanic?

As for your Christian adult friend...go get a copy of The Addams Family and start doing your hair and makeup exactly like Morticia Addams. Then go to a party store and get some black shawls. Go to school dressed like that a few times...if the fundie woman starts screaming and runs away really fast, you know it worked. Wench wants satanic? We'll give her satanic!

is Heathen supposed to be an insult?

(coming from a true Heathen...Hail the Aesir and the Vanir!)

I can tell you are a practicing satanist, engaging in pre-marital sax as you do, and right there in public too. "My saxophone in one hand, my binder in another, ..."
If you would listen to Michael W. Smith, Petra, Stryper and Whiteheart this would not happen.

:spray:

And now my nose feels runny.

Projectile vomiting. Out, out evil spirits. I command you. :spank:

Where's RevCheesehead? I may need some help with this exorcism. :silly:

a shelter from pigs on the wing.

Hey, you, Whitehouse
Ha ha, charade you are
You house-proud town mouse
Ha ha, charade you are
You're trying to keep our feelings off the street
You're nearly a real treat
All tight lips and cold feet
And do you feel abused?
.....! .....! .....! .....!
You gotta stem the evil tide
And keep it all on the inside
Mary, you're nearly a treat
Mary, you're nearly a treat
But you're really a cry

When I was in Middle and High School me and my friends aimed for those types of remarks, and wore them like a badge of honor. Nothing better than getting rightwingers' panties in a bunch. :)

:hi:

Now, of course, you need to delve deep into real Satanic music. Burn some black metal CDs from a friend or something and leave them on this lady's car. Find out who she is and write "To <her name> from Jesus" on them. I'd like to see her face if she ever heard my iTunes library! :D

Don't know how'd she react to my iTunes... mostly Ladytron, Bob Dylan, the Clash, the Who, Caesars, and ABBA :blush:

Satanic, but I'm sure she'd think that anything atheist/pagan/Jewish is a mark of the Beast, too!

You DO know that ABBA was a plot by Swedish Communists, don't you? Sweden sent the band here to corrupt our youths into a godless, and- yes- Satanic, society. In fact, if you listen to the song "Waterloo" backwards, you will hear a Satanic chant. This is ALL true- my friend heard it on Rush's show!

See? I can prove to you that this is legitimate. Just by typing this, I now have "Fernando" stuck in my head! All part of the plot- thanks!

(In a serious question- did she look like Dana Carvey's "Church Lady" character?) :rofl: And as for your response? :yourock:

All the proof you need for your theory.

I thought you were going to say that you threatened to turn her into a bat with your Satanic powers.




On second thought, she already sounds like an old bat.

Your was great, too!

either fundie-Protastant or adapted for traditionalist Catholics (through FU in Stubenville, OH).

Of course my CD collection and iPod is full of lots of heavy metal that goes to Pantera.

"Is this a bad time to tell you I'm a democrat?"

:rofl:

You are a good soul, you have such a good head on your shoulders.

You give me hope for the future.

Thank you so very much for sharing this and for being you. :hug: :loveya:

Says it all. 'Nuff said.

Todd in Beerbratistan

Don't EVER lose the attitude.

Hell, I even listened to Marilyn Manson at one point. No one ever said my music was Satanic. :(

She sounds like a real bitch.

:P

Of course, there's basically only one guy doing it, and that's Neal Morse, formerly of Spock's Beard. Granted, it gets a little too preachy at times, and it's still not as good as his work with the Beard, but it can't be all bad...Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater plays on it. :)

WTG, MiniMandaRuth! :thumbsup:

Bet you had a good giggle right after that :rofl:

you stanist you

or Margaret Cho. It's great material!

Have a nice satanic day! :D

office, while both of you are skipping class, you are not Satanic.

Not that I was ever caught fighting over a Satanic Bible or anything - we just had a disagreement over who got to read it first since we'd just stolen it from the local bookstore O8)

How Christian of her! :sarcasm:

There's bad religious pop, as there's bad other kind of music. I don't recall Pink Floyd being satanic. I guess she thinks the Vicar of Dibley is a true sinner then.

Mark.

buy the nastiest heavy metal shirts I could find, especially if they had pictures of demons, pentacles, 666, etc. . . in most cases I couldn't stand the music, I just did it to piss off my fundie aunt and her mom. Hell, I even bout a 2 Live Crew shirt to piss them off :evilgrin: Anything that the right-wing christian freakazoid hated, I made sure to flaunt just to keep them on their toes :P

This was the early 80s but I went to a rural school and it was filled with fundies and other nutjobs. They figured anyone who listened to Zeppelin had to be worshipping Satan because of the backward fills supposively found on some of the LZ tracks. (hell, there are backward messages found on John Denver albums or so they say)

Our school had no minorities so they had to find other people to pick on and figured that was a good enough reason. Thing is I was a pretty good Christian - went to church every week, volunteered for Church activities and even went to church camp every year til I graduated. Even my college was a Methodist College (but it wasn't a fundie school - you had to take either 2 religion classes, 2 philosphy or 1 of each before you graduated).

This is why I believe Church does not belong in school. All it really does is create another divide between the 'believers' and the 'non-believers' (which is anyone who doesn't religion exactly like they do!)

:P

my cats Abbott and Evita will kick your ass some more. And you don't want to mess with Evita - she can kill birds while being a totally indoor cat!

requisite 2 religion courses...to be classified as a junior!

However, I am absolutely certain that most of the ultra fundy/everything is satanic crowd would have been appalled at the content of those two classes!

Two of the best courses I ever took anywhere; definitely NOT for the fundyfied.

I had a friend - sweet, but way too naive - who was always worried about me because of "satanic music" (backwards messages). I told her not to worry I couldn't play my records backwards anyway.

You handled yourself so well. At your age, I would have been freaked out that some stranger decided to harass me.

The Who, Satanic? :wtf:

I listen to just about anything (yes, I even like one or two "contemporary Christian" artists-- Jars of Clay, for example), but this woman is definitely a few fries short of a Happy Meal®. Judging by her reaction, you can bet she's probably never even listened to either the Who or Floyd.

Your comeback was priceless. :rofl:

I'd suggest from this:

"We keep on talking when a woman marches over to us. She's wearing a suit outfit, like she's just gotten off work. She has that horrible fake brown hair with fake yellow highlights, and coped with pink eyeshadow up to her eyebrows, she's quite a sight to behold. I happen to notice her kid is one I'm not friends with, and the car is a massive hummer."

Suit, makeup, Hummer...she obviously hasn't read her Bible, as pride is one of them there "major" sins.

"oh, and by the way, when you see your mom this weekend, be sure to tell her

SATAN!

SATAN!

SATAN!"

that mom sounds like an idiot.

Laugh it off and move on....

Bet THAT would curl every one of her fundy hairs...

You did good, kiddo. You are in a place most adults never quite make it to. Well done!!!



Laura

:pals:

Hilarious. I work nights, and If things get rough, (I'm a nurse, and it can) I'm going to be thinking about you. That is just too funny, and gives me hope.

Keep it up. And I want to steal that line....

http://www.youcanrunbutyoucannothide.com/youcanrunbutyoucannothide.html

One of the Top Ten Conservative Idiots:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/05/224.html

In addition to being openly and outspokenly Democratic, I was also openly and devoutly Christian.

Eventually the fundies gave up on attacking me, resorting to "I disagree, but I'm not as good with words as you are."

like you out there.

Your retort was PERFECT...not snotty, not juvenile, but cutting right to the bone.

I salute you, kiddo.

Redstone

What a comeback: "Is this a bad time to tell you I'm a democrat?" You are absolutely priceless!!!!!

:bounce: :toast: :yourock: :applause: :rofl: :loveya:

It'll get you through your dealings with jerks like that.

(Just a thought: I wonder if she's burned any Amy Grant CDs since she divorced her first husband in order to marry Vince Gill.)

My son was wearing his "Slipknot" T-shirt at the mall during Xmas shopping season, when this woman approached him and handed him a pamphlet from some church. She then went on to tell him that he needs to attend her service because of his "problem", as she pointed to his T-shirt.
Well my ascerbic, wise-ass 15 yr old told her "I have no problem. I'm a Catholic Satanist who was born saved and is in good with Lucifer. I've got it covered, dont you think so?" At that point she couldnt even speak, just sputtered, turned red and pointed at me, then stormed off.
Its fun to mess with the heads of fundies.

:rofl:

That is hysterical! We don't have many parents like that at my school, but sometimes I wish we did, just for the pure hilarity of being able to do as you did.

You go, girl!

:applause:

:rofl:

I would kick their proverbial asses from here to Tuesday. What a complete...well, you know what I want to say.

Good on you, MMR.

to approach someone and push their religion down your throat. I cannot wait until they crawl back under the rocks from wince they came.

Good job responding. My response would have likely included an F word.

"Is this a bad time to tell you I'm a democrat?"

Priceless.

I loved that one.

:shrug: Go figure. There's no convincing her otherwise...I tried. I love my mom, the wacky fundy, but I'm still perplexed.

:party: :bounce: :rofl:

One time when I was lobbying for stem cell a priest for life actually said I deserved yopd because I want to sacrifice babies for my own needs. I've also been called an embryo farmer and a toddler killer by these whack jobs.

:eyes:

Some fucking people!

I guess I am one of the cool moms. I take my teenaged son to rock concerts and introduced him to Pink Floyd, The Who, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, etc.

I mean, there's rock music, and then there's stuff that's really out there. If you think Floyd is satanic, you've got serious fun issues!

:rofl:


I probably would have told her pink eyshadow was forbidden by the Bible, just to see what she said. But I love your reply. Keep up the good work, and never let the wingnuts get you down. :thumbsup:

when I was your age because my pastor said they were sinful. It didn't work. We now have several hundred CD's of all musical genres, and I left the church anyway. In my opinion, evil isn't in the music we listen to, the books we read or the television or movies we watch. My ideas about evil are much different today than they were then. Evil, for instance, is a self-proclaimed Christian who signs a piece of legislation that is now causing senior citizens to choose between heat and prescriptions. Dinner and prescriptions. Living inside and the prescriptions they may need to stay alive.

I'm only sorry I wasn't standing there when that woman approached you. I'd ask her why she didn't remove the beam from her own eye before trying to remove the sliver from yours*. I'd also ask her if she'd read the verse about working out her own salvation in fear and trembling*.

Ignore her.

Julie
*New Testament verses. I'm too lazy to look up the exact location.

p.s. My favorite Who songs are probably "My Generation" and "Love Reign O'er Me".

the drummer for my first band (a weird mixture of 2 nerdy kids w/ instruments they kinds new how to play, and 2 "eccentric" kids who knew one chord)had to quit because his Fundie Mom (who watched Ernest Angley every Sunday on TV) thought I was, in her words, "A Faggot Devil Worshiper". I was neither, but I wore it like a badge of honor because of who it came from.

The whole tragedy of the situation was that the rest of the band wouldn't let me immediately change the name of the band from Nebula to Faggot Devil Worshiper, but I've gotten over it:)

I've read your posts, and you're jake with me. Forget the Fundie Mom; she's not worth it..

It is called Jesus loves me, but he can't stand you. PM me your email and I will send it through email.

That sounds great; I want to play that on my show...

I can send you mp3s by these guys:









Then just get them within her earshot somehow... ;)

have managed that. Now that I am older, I would say "F*** you, b****".

Wow. Just...wow. That's really condescending on her part. She doesn't even know you!

You dealt with the situation with far more good grace and humor than I would have been able to muster. I salute you!

:yourock:

:)

Are you and your friends into bands like The Who and Pink Floyd?

I am very interested to hear about how you developed your musical tastes if you are. This is a subject that really facinates me.

My husband and I are in our 30s, we went to high school in the 80s. (We didn't know each other at the time). I was into all the 80s alternative bands (the Smiths, the Cure, et. al.). I had absolutely no interest in what I considered to be "dinosaur rock" like Pink Floyd.

My husband was into the metal scene, like Ozzy Ozbourne and stuff like that, so somehow he managed to get exposed to more "classic" rock.

It's been almost 20 years since I graduated high school. So what I considered to be "moldy oldies" are even older now! (Along with what I grew up with!)

So I'm just wondering, what keeps that music alive? How come young kids aren't into bands that are just coming out now?

I'm not criticizing you at all. I think it's good that kids be aware of pop music history. I just wonder how it happens because it didn't happen for me at all.

but I get tastes for bands all on my own. The (mainstream) music that is coming out today doesn't have a feeling, doesn't have a message.

I am never swayed buy others. Maybe you were, or it might be that different kinds of music just weren't available to you.

Satan! Just kidding....

time you want to.

I am so totally with you on Jesus Rock, Jesus Pop, etc. I am one of those folks who wants a liberal theology in a very traditional setting. Fortunately, I have this in my church! or else I would not go there...

If the youth want to use it in their stuff, play it, whatever that is fine just KEEP IT OUT OF MY WORSHIP SERVICES!!!!!

...sorry...we now return to our regularly scheduled rantings.

:rofl:

and driving a Hummer is the sign of the anti-Christ! What would Jesus drive?

younger people. :)

:hi:

"What has the government done to protect us? Thousand of Terror plots have been ended before they even got off the ground in the past 5 years. You don't hear about them in the newspaper when they never happen.

how many dollars per zealot? Who cares. money means nothing when you're talking about saving lives. It's sad that people like you are more concerned about how much money is being spent than about saving lives."

Now, how many ways can we refute this (with sources)?

Well that sucks.

From now on, you are MiniZombyWoof. :P

Pink Floyd and Satan! A nice pair! ;-)

Ensue :rofl:ing.