Ghost-yhtyeen Tobias Forge: ”En ole satanisti, mutta pidän paholaisesta”

Parhaillaan Yhdysvaltojen kiertueella oleva Ghost-yhtyeen keulamies Tobias Forge antoi hiljattain haastattelun Sacramenton News Review -lehdelle, jonka aikana häneltä kysyttiin, onko Forge kenties satanisti. Forge vastasi liittävänsä satanistisen kulttuurin metallimusiikin syntyyn, muttei kutsuisi itseään kuitenkaan satanistiksi, vaan enemmänkin ”paholaisesta pitäväksi mieheksi”. Lue laulajan koko vastaus tästä:

“From a strictly Christian point of view, if that means believing in a physical, half-man, half-ram living in the underground, no, I don’t believe there is such a thing.

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I’m not the opposite either. I’m sure in the eyes of the beholder, if I was put in front of true god-fearing bible thumpers, I would probably be regarded as a Satanist – just because I’m not a god-fearing bible thumper.

But the concept of Satanism has many forms. In the last 50 years, ever since Anton LaVey and pop-cultural Satanism, when that rose in the latter of the part of 60s with the Church Of Satan and Black Sabbath, Black Widow and Coven and that hippie Satanism, which at the end of the day, heavy metal, black metal, all that is based upon that cultural Satanism, I grew up with that.

So from that point of view, I would definitely say that culturally, I am definitely, for lack of better way of putting it, I’m a devil-liking kind of guy. But I wouldn’t sacrifice a baby to a half-ram that I believe to be living in the underground – and I would never ever encourage anyone to do that.”

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