Twitter Rips Into Jack Posobiec Over Super Cringe Christian Rock Band Past

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May 18, 2022, 6:06 am

It’s difficult to explain modern Christianity’s mortifying attempts to connect with the youth through warping secular media into Jesus propaganda to people who didn’t grow up in evangelicalism. But folks are getting a little taste of just that after Jack Posobiec recently admitted he was in a Christian rock band — and explained what that entailed.

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The One America News Network anchor recently replied to a user asking about his past time as a musician, if you want to call him that. Specifically, as a Christian musician in a Christian rock band.

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“We covered Rage Against the Machine but changed the lyrics to Bible verses,” he wrote, before giving an extremely off-putting example: “‘Praise you, I will do what ya tell me.’”

For those who are familiar with this world, something like this is par for the course. Foo Fighters’ “My Hero,” Evanescence’s “Bring Me to Life,” and even Enrique Iglesias’s “Escape” were all popular songs to modify and sing to Jesus back in their day. And if this sounds like a scene cut from the 2004 religious satire film Saved! for being too on the nose, well, there’s a reason that movie is still so popular among the ex-evangelical crowd.

But people learning about this phenomenon for the first time were understandably disturbed, and wasted no time in mocking both the practice and Posobiec in particular for actually admitting to being involved in it.

Maybe that’s the whole point?

— Артю (@R2dezki) May 16, 2022

the sheer horny tension of it all is what adds a tabasco like level of spice to a song where the word “Baby” was crossed out and replaced with “Jesus”

— Nin d’Bob (@Nindabob) May 16, 2022

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tbh “RALLY ROUND THE SAVIOR” sounds better

— Reese (@JackJackington) May 16, 2022

Also known as youth pastors

— Kah (@kahnutsen) May 16, 2022

And it wasn’t lost on everyone that turning Rage Against the Machine into religious propaganda is seriously missing the point.

Rage Against rage against the machine

— Mr. DR (@Dalepumasdale) May 16, 2022

Praise the machine

— mordechai tapir (@mordechai_tapir) May 16, 2022

Some of those that praise Jesus
Are the same that burn crosses

— one of the Daves you know, you know (@the_real_daveb) May 16, 2022

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That’s why he needed to change the lyrics.

— 完全感覚Dreamer (@Itsukushimi777) May 16, 2022

There’s admittedly something amazing in the way conservatives spend so much time railing against the entertainment industry and then trying their best to claim the media it creates for themselves and their causes. The hypocrisy carries on.

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*First Published: May 18, 2022, 6:06 am