New Zealand Church Groups Protest Ozzy Osbourne and Kiss Performance
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Jenny Ling of Stuff.co.nz reports: A crusade is looming as church groups prepare to take on heavy metal heavyweights poised to play in Wellington [New Zealand] over Easter.
Wellington pentecostal church Lifepoint says the lineup of bands — including former bat-biter OZZY OSBOURNE and KISS — are "not appropriate" and will have "negative influences" on the city during the two-day Rock2Wgtn festival on March 22 and 23.
They plan to lobby other church groups and will look at taking their concerns to Wellington City Council.
"It's not appropriate from our angle of things," said pastor Karen Crawshaw.
"I don't think we can force our views on others but at the same time we think it's a very negative influence on our city.
"It'll put a damper on the things the church traditionally focuses on at the Easter season."
The condemnation follows confirmation that another hellish rock act, Finnish heavy metal band LORDI, has been booked to appear at the Wellington event.
The band, whose five members dress in elaborate costumes as monsters and demons, won the Eurovision song contest last year.
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"I don't think we can force our views on others but at the same time we think it's a very negative influence on our city."
THEN SHUT THE FUK UP YOU FACIST CHRISTIAN B1TCHES...WELL, TO EVEN THE POSITIVE/NEGATIVE WAVES HOLD A CHRISTIAN CONCERT WHILE OZZY AND KISS ARE PLAYING..THAT SHOULD MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER, SAFER PLACE SO YOU CHRISTIAN B1TCHES CAN CONTINUE TO FORCE YOUR IDEALS UPON THE SHEEPLE WHO ACTUALLY WANT TO LISTEN TO IT...YOU ARE ONLY MAKING YOURSELVES LOOK LIKE WHAT YOU DONT WANT TO BE VIEWED AS: OPPRESSIVE CHRISTIAN RADICALS!!!!
God are we back in the 60's? This is modern NZ, at times I am embarrassed at how my country has become, we a re a Politically Correct, Bamby pamby, spoon fed bunch of do-gooders and this just reinforces that. These fukers have nothing better to do, they forgot to mention 85000 tickets are expected to sell, how many millions is that for Wellington? A lot.
Fuk that fuker, If I see him in the street I am gonna punch him in his arrogant nose.
For brandedcfh420:
Why do you give a damn if someone's spelling is right or wrong you f*cking dork. If you didn't notice, Damnit was on your side about this issue, but you had to be an @ss about something as stupid as spelling. Just leave this forum and go jerk off to 2girls1cup you nerd. That goes for everyone else who should feel it necessary to veer off subject for something trivial and stupid. Oh, by the way, f*ck these fundamentalists. I don't care that much for Ozzy and hate KISS, but this kind of stuff from any organization is bullsh*t.
well, if people cant spell, how are they expected to have people take them seriously?? its not hard to spell easy words such as "wear". if people want to look dumb and illiterate then go ahead and continue to mispell easy elementary words. even though we had the same views that doesnt mean a thing. i cant stand people who cannot spell easy english words. i mean, in school you are taught the ways to use the words and how to spell them, but i guess some people just didnt care enough to give 2 sh1ts about their education. now, they show their illiteracy to the world in these forums.
i truly dont care what you have to say about me saint blasphemy, truly dont care, but if you think im gonna stop pointing out dumb illiterate fuknuts then you are dead wrong. i will continue to do that until i die. hopefully some people who read that and have used the word where to mean wear now know the difference. im not trying to be an english teacher, just tired of seeing illiterates mis-using the english language. i can see why the world looks at english speaking people and say they are dumb. if people want to be taken seriously, take your education seriously!!! if not, then why dont they just go kill themselves now because they will never amount to anything anyways. easy kid words are so hard to some, but o well. to any1 who wants to attack me for these posts go ahead, i will just laugh at the people who take up for the illiterate fuks who made themselves illiterate.!!!!!!
btw, to any1 in N.Z. who is on the side of the right here. fight these christian b1tches and fight for your rights to have these shows there!!!!
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i hope everyone knows what a 'church' may do shouldnt represent what i or some other serious christian may do considering i love metal and it doesnt influence me badly, most metal, other than black metal, rarely even attacks christianity, other than in their thoughts (if they happen to dislike it).
but at the same time why does dumb f*** bad lyric'd metal have to give metal such a f***ed up name
its always a damn small percentage that ruins it for the rest of us.
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no these bible thumping morons are just insecure and have been raised on the "fact" that there are demons in this world and that they influence people via temptation negativity blah blah blah.
Arabs think we(we being as americans from my standpoint, as i am american) are savages for watching tv and having naked women on our magazines, but do YOU think that we are savages? These people are pyschopaths. I havnt read about religious nuts since i watched that video of benny hin knocking people over to drowning pool while preaching in africa!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lvU-DislkI
enjoy :D
to: Dark_Funeral
I saw that clip and was thinking it was funny as hell. Yet, I also thought that it was terrifying that people actually give into that sh** blindly. It wasn't anything I hadn't see a few dozen times before, but always disappointing. Talk about a false prophet.
I guess the city can do whatever they want. If there was was an event coming to my town that I really didn't want, I would have the freedom to protest it. Damn! Why are people so quick to judge what the churches in that city are doing? If the people (individual members) have that right to protest in New Zealand, let them exersize it. Damn, talk about the Christians being judgmental.
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what the f*ck....thats bullsh*t. I love heavy metal and they don't have negative influences on me. Whatever they can say wat they want ...they don't have to let there kids go to the concert. oh and by the way i got nothing against christians i know a lot of them.
hey nailgun, if you notice its only the christians that protest things like this. we, metalheads, give them their right to free speech. however, they want to suppress ours. why is this?? christianity has always been that way. they want to judge us and our things we like to do, so we will judge them and their things they like to do. the church needs to be destroyed. christianity needs to be destroyed. how many more kids have to be molested before the church is vanquished?? how many more people need to be murdered in gods name?? how many more people need to be brainwashed before they realize that the christian faith is nothing but a fake, money making organization?? people like you always say that we are being unfair to their free speech...do you think they are being unfair to ours?? WELL GUESS WHAT B1TCH, ITS TIME FOR THE WORLD TO SAY FUK THEM AND THEIR PATHETIC, MURDERING, OPPRESSIVE GOD!!!!
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Honestly, they can eat sh**. I mean no-one protested Deicide coming to Christchurch, and they obviously don't know anything about metal or Ozzy.