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Originally Posted by Einherjar86
Very few journalists in the big newspapers and magazines present all the facts. They each have their own agenda, and part of that agenda is raking in the cash.
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As someone who actually knows a thing or two about the field of journalism, I can tell you it doesn't "rake in the cash" (lol). Not at all. I you're talking about the bigwigs at the top (the NOT journalists) it's a different story, and you'd be right.
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Originally Posted by Einherjar86
The word "pagan" has acquired a negative aura surrounding it, and it's because of the intolerant Christian movement (not only in America, but in several European countries as well).
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Oh, Goddamnit, not again. Ok. The appropriately vague "Christian movement" doesn't want to keep the "pagans" down. If you asked them what they thought of paganism, they'd ask you what the fuck you were talking about. Nobody is even aware that anybody still practices paganism, so they've got no reason to try and oppress it.
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Originally Posted by Einherjar86
The MPAA and other censorship committees actually view things such as "occult" and "pagan" elements as offensive and criteria for rating or censoring (possibly even banning) an album.
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Correction: they did, in the 80s. Now they don't. The reason they did in the 80s was because a lot of metal was associated with Satanism, which scared everyone over the age of 40. If you recall, this was pretty much what a lot of the record execs had in mind when they signed the bands in the first place.
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Originally Posted by Einherjar86
This frustrates me to no end. Paganism and Satanism have been lumped in together by the intolerance of Christianity (which doesn't even make sense; but then, little of it does).
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I don't think so: Satanism is just silly, and nobody knows paganism is still practiced... which, actually it's not, but you know what I mean.
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Originally Posted by Einherjar86
The censorship in this country is harmful to artistic integrity and is all because of the influence of Christianity in this nation.
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Can you actually sight any examples of censorship in America? I reaaaaaaalllly doubt it.
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Originally Posted by Einherjar86
To be quite honest, the only crime against religion I can recall was when Urban II called for a march to take the holy land back from the heathen in 1095.
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Oh, there are plenty more. Pretty much every major religion has a few. They all have a few fundamentals, you know?