Anyone that’s ever had any long term interactions with people involved in christian music scenes, particularly contemporary christian music, knows that the entire industry is morally bankrupt, and most of the musicians are mid tier hacks using the label of christian to cover up their many vices and abuses.
You will not meet a shittier group of human beings outside of a nazi rally. Since there’s some overlap between christian music and nazism and bigotry, that’s not saying much. Mind you, that overlap isn’t so huge that it’s the same thing, but you’d be surprised how often you run into the nazi memorabilia “collectors”, and folks with white sheets sewn into interesting garments in ccm and even plain gospel.
And don’t get me started on the drug use and sexual abuse that goes on. Some of those fuckers make 80s rock bands look ascetic.
And it isn’t just the big names and big money circles either. That shit goes all the way down to performers going around to perform at churches.
Which, I ain’t got problems with sex and drugs. You do you, I’m fine. Just don’t be a faker. Don’t be getting your dick sucked out back of a church in the tour bus after singing about saving yourself for Jesus. And yes, that’s a very specific thing, and it did happen, and it all got ignored because those were “good christians”.
For real, I’ve known black metal performers into the ugly kind of Satanism that are better people that most of the ccm performers out there.
I’ve said it before.
Anyone that’s ever had any long term interactions with people involved in christian music scenes, particularly contemporary christian music, knows that the entire industry is morally bankrupt, and most of the musicians are mid tier hacks using the label of christian to cover up their many vices and abuses.
You will not meet a shittier group of human beings outside of a nazi rally. Since there’s some overlap between christian music and nazism and bigotry, that’s not saying much. Mind you, that overlap isn’t so huge that it’s the same thing, but you’d be surprised how often you run into the nazi memorabilia “collectors”, and folks with white sheets sewn into interesting garments in ccm and even plain gospel.
And don’t get me started on the drug use and sexual abuse that goes on. Some of those fuckers make 80s rock bands look ascetic.
And it isn’t just the big names and big money circles either. That shit goes all the way down to performers going around to perform at churches.
Which, I ain’t got problems with sex and drugs. You do you, I’m fine. Just don’t be a faker. Don’t be getting your dick sucked out back of a church in the tour bus after singing about saving yourself for Jesus. And yes, that’s a very specific thing, and it did happen, and it all got ignored because those were “good christians”.
For real, I’ve known black metal performers into the ugly kind of Satanism that are better people that most of the ccm performers out there.
There’s nothing hornier than religious sexual purity culture. Add perfoming arts & fame and you have a very sordid cocktail.