Quote Originally Posted by Wheemer
can you explain what "80's moral majority style religion" is?
Being shown "the devil made me do it" about how listening to heavy metal makes you a satanic suicidal nutcase. I agree it gives you poor taste in clothes and hair but c'mon....My mother would cover her eyes and change the channel when KISS came on TV. How evil are they?
My mother endlessly played "praise and worship" music which I maintain to this day has scarred me badly.

I was warned from anything to do with magic, dwarves, dragons etc. Dungeons and dragons made people kill in the name of their character.

Toyota advertised in playboy so a pamphlet she had said. They sold for a volvo.

meanwhile in church and other home group type meetings, people raised their hands, shut their eyes, shouted halayluyah and generally lost it to god in some frightening ways. And they said drugs were bad coz you lost control?
excorcisms. scary scary shit.

At big evengelical auditorium things the yankee minister would pray and ask if anyone felt the call to come down and give their life to jesus. everywhere people were headin on down and givin it up etc.
I went down as a kid not cause i felt the call, but coz i was confused what the fear and confusion i felt was. mustve been god?

does that explain it? maybe thats still goin strong in america.it kinda settled down here.