Behemoth frontman Adam Darski, also known as “Nergal” is suing Ryszard Nowak, the head of the All Polish Committee For Defense Against Sects . Nergal claims that slander was committed against him by Nowak in an interview where Nowak calls him a criminal, according to Metal Portal.

Metal has a reputation for being anti-Christian and bands keep that reputation alive…for some reason. Nothing better to write songs about I guess. It’s a trend in metal that has never died. I guess it’s a way for metal bands to connect with fans. Christians are portrayed as hypocrites, pushing their beliefs on everyone and praying to a “fake” god, whereas Satan promoting bands are doing the same thing.

Christians are called “sheep” and Satanists and a lot of metal-heads call the existence of God a lie. Well if God is a lie, then Satan is too. Where else is Satan mentioned in history? In the bible, that’s where. So if you say “Hail Satan”, and call the bible a “book of lies” then you’re a hypocrite too. You are just as much a bunch of sheep as are the Christians that you scrutinize. They call Christians “pussies” and “hypocrites” and then glorify Satan as some great, evil being that promotes living free and all this other grand stuff. How do they know what Lucifer was or what he portrayed. They only know what folklore, what the bible and what other books say about him. You don’t call the bible a book of lies and then turn around and use it or other books as reference to Satan.

Back to the story. Nergal wants a public apology from Nowak and $1000, which he says will go to an animal charity. Nowak refuses, saying that “this would give all musicians worshiping Satan the green light to do as they please while performing on stage — to burn crosses, destroy the Bible or just offend Christians.“. Everyone and everything offends everyone these days. People of different faith get offended when Christians try to press their values on them and Christians get offended by the thought of Satanism and people promoting it, among many other things.

I said it before that there are a lot of good Christian values. As with all religions, groups and races, you have bad individuals. However; You don’t have to be a Christian to have good morale values and practice them. You just have to be a good person. Faith goes beyond a book but Christians will be offended by a symbol of their faith being torn apart just as we metal fans get offended by people crucifying the genre.

Nergal said during a controversial concert “they call it the Holy Book, I call this the book of lies. Fuck the shit, fuck the hypocrisy.”. Wow, dude…that’s really original. I bet he was the first person to ever say that. Has metal become so redundant that bands have to do stuff like this in order to stay relevant and connect with fans? We’re beating a dead horse here. I don’t feel that Nowak should be calling him a criminal for ripping up a book, but I don’t think he really owes him a big apology. I guess it all depends on the laws of Poland.

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