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Silly Christian Rock Fans

Category: Humor • Religion
Posted on: July 2, 2007 10:07 AM, by The Omnibrain

From SFGate via reddit:

Boy, are you at the wrong concert: As a red-haired young man prays during the Creation Christian music festival in Shirleysburg, Pa., a red-shirted teen flashes the heavy-metal Satan gesture.

hehe... silly.

Comments

Mommy, mommy, why do all these people look unhappy?

Posted by: Clootie | July 2, 2007 10:48 AM

As George Bush taught us, the gesture means "Go Horns!" (short for Longhorns, a University of Texas team in any of several sports).

Posted by: Old Scratch | July 2, 2007 10:51 AM

Well, the origin of the maloik gesture isn't satanic at all, as far as I know; it's a folk custom (Italian, I think, though I could be wrong about that) intended to ward off the evil eye.

Perhaps that kid knows something the other audience members don't?

(We have Ronnie James Dio to thank for its popularization as a heavy-metal gesture, by the way. This random factoid brought to you by too many hours listening to Metallica in the 1980s.)

Posted by: G. Williams | July 2, 2007 12:31 PM

RJD tells a good story and he is pretty much the defacto godfather of metal, but the horns gesture was used by Anton LeVay long before Dio started flashing it in concert. It's called the corna.

Posted by: Todd | July 2, 2007 1:11 PM

to Cootie; yeah, I've seen cheerier pictures of Leonard Cohen concerts.

Posted by: Rob Jase | July 2, 2007 1:50 PM

regardless of its origin, i think that the kid throwing up the devil-horns inspired the intensive prayer session in the guy behind him. isn't the connection obvious?
i bet if there was sound, we'd hear him speaking in tongues...

Posted by: kate | July 2, 2007 2:51 PM

"You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Remember -- all I am offering is the truth, nothing more."

~Morpheus, "The Matrix"

THE RED PILL:

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Posted by: red pill | July 2, 2007 5:08 PM