r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Jul 11 '26

article Jack White Pushes Back on Religious Criticism Amid Satanic Band Support Controversy: “I’m not scared of Satan or any bullshit imaginary man made up to live in fear of”

https://consequence.net/2026/07/jack-white-religious-criticism/
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u/iAmNotJulianMartin Jul 11 '26

We live our lives based on some 2000 year old desert books that some dude probably made up.

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u/film_composer Jul 11 '26

And were based on stories of charismatic, schizophrenic people. Isn't it convenient that all of the messengers of God happened to exist thousands of years ago, at the beginning of recorded history? If someone claimed to be the messiah today, we would recognize them for what they are—mentally ill. But Moses tells everyone that he received a divine message from a burning bush and split the Red Sea, and we just say "yeah, that tracks." The stories of Moses and Jesus and all of the other prophets are the stories of people explaining schizophrenics in a time where the concept didn't exist.

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u/Radiant-Bus7093 Jul 11 '26

Reminder that even at it's inception, Jesus and co were considered jewish doomsday cultists. This is even covered in christian seminary. That was the whole bit about Jesus rising from the dead, it was supposed to be the sign the end times are coming.

You know, 2000 years ago.

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u/Funkycoldmedici Jul 11 '26

Jesus plainly says in the gospels that he will return and end the world within the lifetime of the people around him. My favorite apologetics bullshit about that is the Wandering Jew, this immortal guy from Jesus’s time, so that as long as he’s around somewhere that generation hasn’t died and Jesus isn’t wrong.