Im not good at math, I never learned my multiplication tables, I cannot read or address measurements. I am not good at all with numbers. The whole idea of it just aggravates me and frustrates me more than I can ever take the time to actually sit down and learn the shit.
Well speaking Algebra, I was a high school drop out. I got my GED through a grant program, while in recovery. Its a miracle that I was able to pass that exam. But I do remember the dedicated members and staff that helped me get through the process. And still to this day, I get emotional saying his name, but the one person who both had the ability to make me laugh and make learning math fun, was petchour (sp?) and he sadly has passed away. I dont know why, or what took him from this earth. But I pray to God that He is in heaven and is smiling at us as we go through this maze of life.
But even with all this preconcived ideas and notions of thinking, let me just make this perfectly clear this post is not about algebra.
But it is instead about a thrash band by the name of Algebra. I learned about this band from watching and listening to the Metalsucks playlists. Yea, when I heard this it was like nothing I had heard as far thrash is concerned. Its exactly a difficult genre to mistake, and most people will usher off the top names and it will be a discussion of whether Metallica is mightier than Megadeth, and its just the way conversations go and gravitate. But with my pedigree of thrash being very vast and diverse, first of course Slayer, then being Exhorder, and Ripping Corpse, Living Sacrifice… and the affluent Testament. I cannot forget Believer, or Vengeance Rising… Deliverance, and Seventh Angel!! yea Ive scrambled the map for good music, and I get it! but my brains been hammered with the riddles and poetry of thrash masterminds portraying the great portal of hell, or some kind of grand leisure for all the heathens and satanic freaks go, while hard boiled on god knows what kind of drug, or alcohol.
But alas I will confess whether Algebra be a Christian or not band, they do write incredibly wild and creative music that is poetic and thrilling with drums that hammer down the pain, and the orchestra of several different guitars blazing in harmony. It thunders and it pours, great music!
Yea I am not going to be your blowup doll, or your all you can eat free ride to every amusement park. Or the guy who always a dollar to spare. But I can tell you, that Jesus Christ is a real historic figure and He did indeed live this earth and the biblical pages are still echoing from the past centuries ago, and continue to work into modern life.
What the band believes and thinks doesn’t impress me as much as their ability to perform and play music. I might not agree with them on everything, but I would never call any of them bad musicians.
Do you know aggravating it was to come to the conclusion that Glen Benton is a miserable unrepentant sinner? just about the same number of days it took me to have the measure of judgment about myself. But one distinct difference about Algebra and Deicide, is that these guys aren’t brandishing inverted crosses into their foreheads, and declaring and provoking violence towards Christians.
There are two things in this life you aren’t convince me of, that Jesus Christ is not the messiah, and that homosexuality is not a sin. As far as whether death metal, black metal and thrash are ok for a Christian to perform and listen to?
No shot! I praise and worship God however I want to. And believe it or not, some non-Christian bands did in fact draw me closer to my relationship with God.
I am not Jesus, I didn’t walk down calvary and sacrifice myself for humanity and die there on that rock known as golgotha. But I am a sinner, and I try my best ever day to live the best life I possibly can, for God, myself and family and friends. And yes, even for those who hate me. That right there, is a hard lesson in itself.
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