Today, I will be talking about logical mistakes that Christians make when they make their ultimate judgement about our beloved heavy metal music. That it is satanic just by looking at its lyrical content and imagery. I will present the fallacies from the previous book that I reviewed, written by Krunoslav Žažar. His perspective can be generalized so it is most probable that you can encounter someone with a rock hard christian perspective about heavy metal (and most probably you already have in real life or the internet). Ultimately, I haven`t found any logical mistakes concerning NS bands like Grand Belial´s Key or Infernum. NOTA BENE!!- I will not write about Christian fallacies in general. Only if they are related to heavy metal.

  FALLACY #1: The author states in his book that his motivation for writing the book were disasters like wars, earthquakes and says that one should ask himself, do we live in the last of our times aka The Armageddon (found in The Book of Revelation). In the next part, immediately after the motivation statement, he writes about how there were a vast number of satanic heavy metal concerts in Zagreb in the past 10 years. Judging by his Christian perspective he is probably implying that these kind of concerts are a disaster and a sign of a oncoming Armageddon. Saying that satanic heavy metal concerts are a sign of endtimes and a disaster equal to those like war and earthquakes or floods is nonsense. Natural disasters happened in prehistoric times, our times and they will happen in the future and we cannot avoid it. Grand diseases like the black plague also occurred more than once in our history and wars are a product of greed for material or other gains. Judging by his statement, if it was true, then heavy metal bands would exist from the beginning of times (wouldn´t that be epic!!).

  FALLACY#2: SATANIC HEAVY METAL CONCERTS LEAVE FATAL CONSEQUENCES FOR ALL HUMAN LIFE.
  This statement could be understood in two ways. First one, “for all human life” one could understand that it leaves fatal consequences for all humanity. Second one, the other explanation for “for all human life” is the whole life of a one human being. Attending such concerts or listening to such music and having fatal consequences afterwords is again bunch of nonsense and it is not scientifically or empirically proven. Here I can speak from my own experience, that listening to satanic metal or generally heavy metal genres only improved my way of thought and also enhanced my imagination and seeing things from other perspectives. On the other hand when one speaks of satanism, not everyone thinks of “Satan” in the same way. In other words, Satan could be an expression only for death or only for the devil or only for an enemy. It doesn´t necessarily need to be only one way of Satan´s embodiment.

FALLACY #3: THOSE WHO CHOOSE JESUS CHRIST ARE ALREADY WINNERS

  This statement could imply that those who listen to heavy metal music or attend concerts that have satanic imagery are already losers. Just for the sake of this fallacy, the definition of loser follows: “A person that loses or has something to lose, especially a game or contest”. A concert or music isn´t something that you lose. It can only elevate you and your mind. Also, concerts and music or not contests (although they could be, between bands, but thats for another time). Basically what he is saying, Christianity is a two-way game in which you can choose rightly or wrongly. The mythic battle between ultimate good and ultimate evil which doesn´t actually exist in real world.

FALLACY #4: PEOPLE WHO PLAY HEAVY METAL MUSIC “GET THEIR BREAD WITHOUT ACTUALLY WORKING”
  He states in his book that one of The Devil´s seducements is getting food without actually working. He didn´t put his definition of work in the book but here is the textbook definition: “Activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result”. Learning and playing instruments takes a lot of skill and training, especially on stage because you need to be extra concretated, fearless and skillful. It takes work, a lot of work for that, hence I disagree with him concerning this statement.