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- From: mlc9g@Virginia.EDU ("Matt Condon")
- Subject: Re: Satanism and Gothdom?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.205735.17498@Virginia.EDU>
- Organization: University of Virginia
- References: <1992Nov20.125930.3287@nic.csu.net>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:57:35 GMT
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- beth@nermal.SantaRosa.Edu writes:
- > The goths in the United States become that way more or less by
- > listening to music--music like Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephilim, the
- > Cure, and so on. Many are not necessarily _Satanic_, but are certainly into
- > practicing black magic and the like. I was recently told that local goths
- > do this a lot, and many have spirits that follow them (I got into the
- > conversation after getting a lot of weird vibes from a particular local
- > club, and someone told me this could certainly be one of the reasons.)
- > But I can't fully answer those questions (whether they were
- > rhetorical or not), because I am seeing them from the outside...
- >
- Where do you find satanism in the music you mentioned? I
- listen to it, I'm not a satanist... I have friends who listen
- to it... they're not satanists...
- If you read the linear notes to Christian Death's _The
- Scriptures_, there is even a warning against the practice of
- black magic...
- I can certainly see how someone who considers themself a
- satanist might be attracted to goth, but don't make the
- generalization that goths are satanists.
-