Yankton golf pro Kevin Doby takes a swing at evangelical Trumpist hypocrisy by pointing out that those Trump lovers should also groove to Judas Priest and Black Sabbath:
Following their “theological vessel” rationale, Evangelicals should joyously herald Judas Priest for the Christian messaging in songs like Painkiller: Flying high on rapture/Stronger free and brave/Nevermore encaptured/They’ve been brought back from the grave/With mankind resurrected/Forever to survive/Returns from Armageddon to the skies.
Christian themes are also common in Black Sabbath songs like After Forever: Yes, I have seen the light and I’ve changed my ways / And I’ll be prepared when you’re lonely and scared at the end of your days / Could it be you’re afraid of what your friends might say / If they knew you believe in God above / They should realize before they criticize / That God is the only way to love.
Yep, the same guy that once bit the head off a dead bat onstage, Ozzy Osbourne, sang those lyrics.
So why do Evangelicals praise Trump, but viciously label groups like Black Sabbath as satanic? Both are extremely flawed, and both espouse Christian messaging. If anything, heavy metal bands demonstrate a resonant grasp of Christianity, while Trump has repeatedly said he’s never asked God for forgiveness [links added; Kevin Doby, letter to the editor, Yankton Press & Dakotan, 2018.12.02].
Remember, Christian friends: Donald Trump will lie to your faces.
Black Sabbath and Judas Priest are mostly British; if Christians want any of those band members to serve as our next “flawed vessel” in the White House, they’ll have to reach out to Judas Priest’s current drummer, Scott Travis, who was born in Virginia. Bonus political metaphor: Wikipedia says Travis is often mistaken as a left-hander, but he’s really “ambidextrous, and plays with an open style.”
I never could get into Black Sabbath or Judas Priest or other headbanging music. Now, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” was different. I still crank that up from time to time.
Here are some lyrics from that song:
“There’s a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
‘Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook, there’s a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.”
Here’s a great interpretation of the song from Brissyfish69 on songmeanings.com:
“We interpreted this song in my senior English class, and what I took from it is “the lady who’s sure” has based her life on the material things. When she’s on her way to heaven, she doesn’t believe the signs that say she can’t get in once she reaches the gates because her life lacks a spiritual base. That’s why her stairway is unstable/false and lies on a foundation of “whispering wind.” Throughout the song, the lady’s experience is paralleled to the band’s reflection on what they’ve done in life and wondering if they’ll one day end up on a similar stairway. (Hence, “there’s a feeling I get when I look to the west, and my spirit is crying for leaving”- they fear they’ve left their spiritual path to travel down a road of materialism.) At first they believe they can simply change their fate and walk down the right path when they need to, but as their shadows grow long, they realize they may have been too late. This was the first Led Zeppelin song I ever heard and I’ve been a fan ever since.”
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/7768/
There are some other interesting interpretations, as well. Many have something to do with religion, either positive or negative.
Here’s the Black Sabbath lyric that describes Trump and the Republican party:
They say that black is really white
The moon is just the sun at night
And when you walk in golden halls
You get to keep the gold that falls
It’s heaven and hell
Drumpf would throw jeebus under the bus if there really was a jeebus.
Lyrics more applicable to Drumpfians come from the “Pussycat Song” by Connie Vannett and are not safe for work or anywhere else.
Ole Baldy’s fans would be better listening to Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Led Zeppelin that those crazy fake preachers they love.