RE: 'Idiot' Nationalist Ranting - Maybe don't insult your audience, while you're at it?
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This struck a chord (pardon the pun) - fuck it, it was an intentional pun. I recently saw Within Temptation, and having been a long-time fan of theirs (I have their first album from 1996) .. and I didn't know a lot of their new material.
Turns out they have a song called "Don't Pray for Me", which they played live. The lead singer, Sharon; said some stuff about how people shouldn't push their beliefs on others. It was a religious context, but she just stopped at that, and left it to be polynomial, to allow people to draw their own conclusions.
I went down a rabbit hole of thought in the mosh put about people following the same religion fighting in a war praying to the same god for the strength to overcome the "others".
I had a few moments in that moshpit, but it was a positive live experience, instead of what your experience here sounds like which would be akin to Rage Against the Machine coming out and saying that they were prophetic and that they warned us all about the dangers of tyrant governments and eroding human rights across the world.
Hopefully the next gig you attend is something more. :)
Thank you for owning up to the pun. Sign of a decent man.
I like that interpretation of it, maybe it helped that she didn't expand on it to the point of being offensive to anyone of a particular creed. It's one thing someone pushing religion on someone else, but another if they choose to follow it or find comfort or help in praying for someone else. Why attack it.
Thanks :D
Well said, always better to spend energy on the things that matter and can actually elicit change, instead of just wailing against the things that cannot be controlled by a single individual, or in the case of protest, a collective.