FALLACY #12: ANGELCORPSE´S PETE HELMKAMP´S INTERVIEW (translated from Croatian to English)

Pete Helmkamp: “Ignorance is still strong and through ignorance comes faith. The declining influence of Judeo-Christianity opened a void and people are simply filling this void with materialism, they do not develop further. And some people have simply turned their crosses upside down and said hail to Satan instead of hail to Yahweh- these are the two sides of the same coin. Develop further!”^[1]

  I wanted to put this up because the author says that from his answer from the interview, they clearly state that the faith in the one true God is ignorance while saying that worship of Satan is further human development.
Now, I believe that the author misunderstood Pete´s answer. He said that the people started praising Satan instead of Yahweh and that both of them are TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN. What he wanted to say here is that Satan worship was just a replacement for worshipping Yahweh and that people should develop further than that (and probably from materialism). Nothing more, nothing less.

   FALLACY #13: KILLINGS ARE SATAN´S DEEDS

“They´ve killed themselves, hence this is clearly the work of Satan.”

In the book, the author presents how Apostasy´s guitarist Henrik Johansson was killed by his girlfriend with a knife pierced through his heart. I can imagine how every crime would be solved if the Christians were leading the Crime Department. Every crime would definitely described as work of Satan. First of all, that would be logical nonsense which wouldn´t solve anything. Second of all, solving crimes requires both physical evidence and imagination. In this case with Henrik and his girlfriend, one should ask himself why did this happen? For what reason? Were they both psychologically ill and so forth. To point out the most important thing about all of this, I believe that he is using murders that happened within the scene and the bands just to justify his claims how murders were, are and will be mystical Satan´s deeds without any explanation whatsoever.

 FALLACY #14: CHRISTIANITY VS KABBALAH

Apparently, Kabbalah is an esoteric school of thought. The next problem concerns the band Averse Sefira and the separation of good spirits from the bad spirits. The band states that in the Kabbalah, there are 12 spirits that come from the left and the right hand of God. They are called Sefiroth. The word Sefira is the singular form of Sefiroth and Averse Sefira is a singular form for one such impure spirit.^[2]

The thing here is as it follows. The author says that Kabbalah and the terms Sefiroth, Sefira, Averse Sefira, and others have no correlation with the truth whatsoever because the evil spirits are forever divided from God. Again I must say, such religions are world of their own and do not have to be compatible. In addition, the band Averse Sefira can use Kabbalah teachings and terms for their own artistic approach for their lyrics. One cannot judge that they practice Kabbalah just because their band name comes from Kabbalah.

  FALLACY #15: MISINTERPRETATION OF BATHORY´S SONG, “BORN FOR BURNING”

The author thinks that the song “Born for Burning” is about how a man is determined for life in hell or burning in hell. This is exactly how someone with a Christian perspective would interpret it. I will now put the lyrics of the song here:

Haunting the cloudless black sky

Braver at night

Hidden as the lips of her cnt

She is keeping out of sight

Dark as her closed eyelids

Her secret

She comes to you with a serpent’s kiss

She has the power to foresee

She don’t fear the flames

She smile at the fire

Whisper the words of spell

Without fear without fright

BORN FOR BURNING…

BORN FOR BURNING…

BORN FOR BURNING…

BORN…

She can’t feel the pain

She gaze at the sky

In the greedy flames

She will burn tonight

The beauty burning

Like the moon at harvest

Her seared flesh falling apart

And feed the hungry flames

Where the flame still bite her thigh

She is not afraid to die

She will burn again tonight

(she will always burn)

But her spirit shall survive…

She dont fear the flames…she has the power to forsee…she smile at the fire…she gaze the sky…in the greedy flames…she will burn tonight

I am certain that this song is about burning the witch, but, the main point of this song is not the act of burning the witch. I believe what Quorthon wanted to say with it is, BORN FOR BURNING=BORN FOR DEFYING CHRISTIANITY! I will try to find later if this song is actually dedicated to some mysterious witch.

  FALLACY #16: MISINTERPRETATION OF BATHORY´S SONG, “CALL FROM THE GRAVE”
The author states that a vast number of people (I believe he meant people who play heavy metal music) practice spiritism just because the song is called “Call from the Grave”. I will not even comment this one… It is clear to me that the author does not understand the point of this song. The mysterious character only wants an eternal sleep (death) granted by God and it doesn´t matter to him if he goes to heaven or hell.
Some of the lyrics of the song:

Death would greet with eternal sleep

My soul would come to peace

My life had ceased

The time was comed

Can no one hear my plead?

Lowered down in the moisty ground

Into the dark and cold

My heart’s beat the only sound

Pain tears my limbs and soul

I scream for mercy

Hear my cries

Oh, Lord don’t abandon me

I’m so tired

Grant me the eternal sleep

I will add that the author states that while calling the spirits, one cannot make contact with his ancestors. I find this extremely ironic because Christians destroyed cultures of every tribe and race on every continent. European cultures, Asian cultures, African cultures and American cultures alike. If something cannot make a connection with your ancestors, then the answer is Christianity.

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^[1] Žažar, page 14

^[2] Žažar, page 18