Morbid Angel’s Church of Satan-affiliated bassist/vocalist: Buddhism’s cool with me
In a new interview conducted by NZRock, David Vincent of the classic metal band Morbid Angel — no lover of religion — says the despite his leanings towards the late Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan, he’s got no problem with Buddhism:
NZRock: You’ve been affiliated with the Church Of Satan for a long time now…
David Vincent: I don’t deny it, but I’m not really active in terms of like this hierarchy. That can be just as much of a country club, you know, political thing as anything else can be. I joined because I felt like it was a good idea and it’s a great antithesis to a number of things out there. [...] I really feel that organized religion is really at the center of a lot of problems and a lot of closed-mindedness that we have in this world. Wars, I mean, hell, Islam is the worst offender, I mean as bad or worse than Christianity. Probably the only organized religion that I don’t have a problem with would be Buddhism, because it’s almost paganism. It’s just a different path that works, these other things they don’t work. Any religion that has this belief, this system that just subjugates women the way that they do, I just have no respect for it at all.
The whole interview is online here, metalheads.
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June 18th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Lol and people say satanic metalheads don’t have any respect for people XD
June 19th, 2009 at 7:24 am
[...] 2009 June 19 tags: Buddhism, David Vincent, Morbid Angel, Satanism by preciousmetal via The Worst Horse we learn that David Vincent, vocalist for the iconic death metal act Morbid Angel, thinks Buddhism [...]
June 19th, 2009 at 7:26 am
Good find my man!
June 19th, 2009 at 8:05 am
[...] Angel — a guy who, um, self-identifies with the Church of Satan — has just said that he’s cool with Buddhism. (Granted, that’s not exactly the kind of endorsement most Buddhists are going to [...]
June 19th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
BIG fan of this band. I saw this on Blabbermouth.net the other day and wanted to send it to The Horse, but someone beat me to it!
My guess is that he would not like the teachings of Buddhism if he knew more about them, but just doesn’t have a problem with it because buddhists don’t go door-to-door and generally don’t kill in the name of Buddhism. The nontheistic aspect doesn’t hurt either.
June 22nd, 2009 at 12:38 pm
“The only organized religion I dont have a problem with would be Buddhism, because its almost paganism.” -David Vincent
I’m a fan of “Evil D’s” other band, The Genitorturers.
His quote reinforces the previous comment that he probably doesn’t know much about Buddhism.
And considering how my Pagan friends abhor Satanism and other “left hand” paths, it also makes me wonder if he knows much about Paganism.
July 4th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Although I can’t pretend to know what the singer is trying to say I can say that this sentiment is pretty widespread within the metal community.
We see organized religion as being very militant whereas the pagan religions and the eastern religions are much more acceptable.
Many metalheads simply use satanism as an expression of antitheist values and general iconoclasm toward the militant religions.