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With all the many references to musical instruments, there is one instrument that is NEVER mentioned! The DRUM! Why is that? The drum was a very common instrument in Egypt and the lands around Israel. And yet the DRUM is NEVER mentioned in a King James Bible.

Did the Lord just forget to include the DRUM or is there another reason?

Is it because — drums are associated with voodoo, shamanism, paganism and magic rituals?



When the first blacks from Africa were converted to Christianity they knew the power and evil influence of DRUMS. And the converted blacks strictly forbid the use of drums! They referred to the drums as "the Devil's drum".



One simple guideline for Christian music is NO DRUMS!

Terry Watkins, Dial the Truth Ministries 72 Comments [12/23/2009 8:11:02 AM]
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#1078291
refuter of fundy vermin

The KJV Buy-Bull also says nothing about the bagpipes, pipe organ, Irish tin whistle, or bodhran (Irish drum). I guess these are all 'sinful'? Don't touch my Scottish/Irish music, fucktard!

12/23/2009 11:00:49 PM

#1078304
Helena

Enna's reply up towards the top is why I wish You could directly reply to comments. What I have to sway will be disjointed form tis context and buried on the 2nd page where no one will see it.

Christian music needs all the help it can get? On the contrary, liturgical music is so beautiful and so emotionally overwhelming that it is the only thing I can see that could make a sensible person have Christian feeling.

Can you explain how you find something wanting when you listen to Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Requiem, Bizet's Te Deum, Bach's Cantatas and Masses?

Or let me guess, you've never actually listened to music but just to some sort of mass produces synthetic sound pushed on you by the propaganda of the popular recording industry, and you are able to tell yourself that the particular brand you think is 'cool' you have convinced yourself is better the the virtually identical mass produced Christian popular music?

Now I know you are going to reflexively react to this comment with hostility (that is, you would if you ever saw it), but consider that you might be in the same position as a fundamentalist ensnared in a benighted ignorance and coils of deception trying to argue with an evolutionary biologist.

12/23/2009 11:30:39 PM

#1078321
Tangetc

It's been a while since I took any serious history courses, but I don't remember ever hearing anything about any displaced African communities that were converted to Christianity banning the use of drums. Unless they converted to a sect that banned music altogether. Though I suppose mentioning the once widespread existence of such sects and the larger fact that for hundreds of years certain intervals were completely disallowed in liturgical music as they were thought of as satanic would mean that to employ this logic would require that they disown the entire concept of "christian music".

Though I have to say, as this reasoning is pretty strange even by warped-fundie-logic standards I think this might have been a troll getting some lulz.

I hope...

12/24/2009 1:14:25 AM

#1078326
solomomgrundy

Curiously enough there is even a website, 'Christian Drummers', devoted to promoting the heresy of drumming.

http://www.christiandrummers.net

Now I think of it, my grandmother used the phrase 'the Devil's drums', not that she was particularly religious.

12/24/2009 1:46:42 AM

#1078338
raindrops

>One simple guideline for Christian music is NO DRUMS!

No cars, airplanes, and computers in the bible also. So go live in a cave now!

12/24/2009 2:59:46 AM

#1078342
Lordy

That actually made me do a face palm!

Is everything evil to these people? There really is no hope for fundies like this!

12/24/2009 3:22:12 AM

#1078372


Let me see, tymbal, trimble and...........drums. That´s what David had in his orchestra. Again?

12/24/2009 7:48:46 AM

#1078383
Richard

yeah, i was going to do the whole 'timbrel' business as well, but whatever.

"drums are associated with voodoo, shamanism, paganism and magic rituals?"

Yeah, and a guy sitting around a table telling his followers to drink his blood and eat his flesh, is in no way assosiated with any occult practises right?

12/24/2009 8:01:55 AM

#1078398


Even if no drum was mentioned, isn't there a tendency for the Bible to call out those items which are "very common… in Egypt and the lands around Israel" when it was deemed verboten?

12/24/2009 8:32:53 AM

#1078410


the Bible also does not mention sharks.


clearly, sharks are the fallen angels referred to in Genesis. they must therefore be hunted to extinction.


it is clear that this is God's will, or he would not have made the flesh of the fallen angels so delicious.

12/24/2009 9:27:39 AM

#1078497
Quantum Mechanic

You made the little drummer boy cry.

12/24/2009 12:24:05 PM

#1078519
Yama the Space Fish

What do these people know? They can't tell the difference between medlars and loquats.

12/24/2009 1:48:11 PM

#1078598
Citizenbrain

No these are the devil's drums:
http://www.freewebs.com/chaos-satanic-mantra/POD%20Satan%20Drums%201.jpg

And Old Viking, thanks for the laugh :)

12/24/2009 8:34:49 PM

#1078696


This guy isn't very bright, isn't he?

12/25/2009 12:34:23 AM

#1080471
Shadoboy



So, should we assume Donkey Kong is the devil's servant?

12/27/2009 10:36:51 PM

#1080749
FSMpirate

Look, you fucking idiot. I have to live here, too. I don't want to have to worry about pissing off your invisible magic sky daddy. Just shut the fuck up and go away! They're DRUMS! ESSENTIAL TO THE BEAT KEEPING PROCESS! It's a barrel of air with a membrane stretched across the top and bottom. HOW the fuck is that EVIL?!?

12/28/2009 9:58:11 AM

#1084117
spinetingler

lupinella
>Seriously, my dream band would be: theremin, bagpipes, accordion, cello and upright bass.


Can I play in your band?

12/30/2009 7:57:26 PM

#1084207


Flutes are also extremely pagan, having existed in one form or another all over the world ever since people figure out that blowing just right into a tube makes a nice sound. Also, KJ is quite different from older versions of the Bible.

12/30/2009 9:32:58 PM

#1153881
Devin

OMG LARS ULRICH IS GOING TO HELL!!!11one11!


5/1/2010 11:27:13 PM

#1153887
Anemone

The Bible doesn't mention the piano, the violin, the xylophone, the clarinet, or the tuba.

5/1/2010 11:57:07 PM

#1191663
HazelHolly

HERE! COME! THE DRUMS!

...couldn't resist, sorry.

8/12/2010 7:58:13 AM

#1191699
The Duelist

BIGGEST. RETARD. EVER.
Duh, thar ain't no drums mentioned in da Babble, so them thangs ar of tha Debbil!!

8/12/2010 8:43:10 AM
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