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Ricky Olson on Immaculate Misconception

With the release of our video, I feel that I need to address some points. I know Chris posted on his blog about it, but there’s some other few personal points I’m going to touch on.

For those of you that have seen our most recent music video for the song Immaculate Misconception, you’re aware that there is some very strong religious imagery throughout. This was not done to point a finger and say “what you believe in is wrong”. It was done to say that there are some very ignorant people in the world, many of faith. And that doesn’t mean every person that is religious is an ignorant one. There are many, many believers that are some of the nicest and most open-minded people ive ever met! The video as a whole says “think before you do/say/whatever, and be open to new things”…..not just with religion, but with everything in life. Jesus is used as an allusion in the video to show that he was persecuted for his beliefs many, many years ago, and people are still being persecuted today all over the world for their way of life! Have we not learned from Christ’s actions after all these years? Its a pretty harsh allusion, but sometimes the truth is hard swallow. Would the point have come across as well if we had filmed us being harassed by normal, everyday people (much like we all put up with almost every day still)? Most likely not. With that being said, we are not preaching by any means that what you currently believe in is wrong! We just think that everyone should be entitled to their own way of life. That is what our band as a whole stands for.

Personally, I think that everyone should be able to dig and research to find out what they feel is right for them as a way of life. If religion/spirituality is your thing, great! If not, that’s perfectly okay too. Also, don’t let people you look up to, or outside influence determine what you should do just because it seems cool. Just because one person lives one way, doesn’t mean that it is necessarily going to be a good suit for you as well. I think its extremely wrong for anyone to force anyone else to believe a certain thing, whether it be religion, sexual orientation, political standing, etc, just because its what your parents believe, or because any other way isn’t correct by society’s standards. Live your life the way that makes YOU happy because, ultimately,YOU’re the one that has to live it.

My apologies for the terrible grammer, this was semi-rushed and I’m exhausted!

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Thanks Ricky. <3