 Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 10:40 AM
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This is a short interview with James Hetfield of Metalica. In it he is talking about what it is like being a Christian Science child and that the song, "The God that Failed" was like his therapy. The video begins with the song and the interview follows. I believe he lost his mother to an untreated illness because she was a Christian Scientist. I had the same experience being a child as well as losing my mother to an untreated illness.
http://chrisyong.net/james-hetfield-interview-on-christian-science/
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Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 12:31 PM
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| WOW! Thanks for the post, love it.
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Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 4:31 PM
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| Here are the lyrics: Pride you took
Pride you feel
Pride that you felt when youd kneel
Not the word
Not the love
Not what you thought from above
It feeds
It grows
It clouds all that you will know
Deceit
Deceive
Decide just what you believe
I see faith in your eyes
Never your hear the discouraging lies
I hear faith in your cries
Broken is the promise, betrayal
The healing hand held back by the deepened nail
Follow the God that failed
Find your peace
Find your say
Find the smooth road in your way
Trust you gave
A child to save
Left you cold and him in grave
It feeds
It grows
It clouds all that you will know
Deceit
Deceive
Decide just what you believe
I see faith in your eyes
Never you hear the discouraging lies
I hear faith in your cries
Broken is the promise, betrayal
The healing hand held back by the deepened nail
Follow the God that failed
I see faith in your eyes
Broken is the promise, betrayal
The healing hand held back by the deepened nail
Follow the God that failed
Pride you took
Pride you feel
Pride that you felt when youd kneel
Trust you gave
A child to save
Left you cold and him in grave
I see faith in your eyes
Never you hear the discouraging lies
I hear faith in your cries
Broken is the promise, betrayal
The healing hand held back by deepened nail
Follow the God that failed The song seems to infer more pain from his childhood experience than he is revealing in the interview. Square Peg
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Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:20 AM
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The healing hand held back by the deepened nail...
I read the lyrics, and listening to the interview, and can't help wonder if he assumes that Christian Science is the same as Christianity (particularly looking at the above quote-is he referring to the Cross?). I know when I quit CS, I became very anti-Christian for a while, because I thought they were one in the same. After all, that's what I had been taught (indoctrinated with).
Does anyone know where this fellow is spiritually today?
John
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