Comments on: David Bazan Steps Away

By: ian

ian — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 07:15:30 +0000

when you say newest ACB, you mean the album that came out like two years ago? I havent paid much attention to Hawkboy yet…..

By: Michael Ownby

Michael Ownby — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:44:26 +0000

Reading about this makes me wonder, Ian, what your take is on the newest ACB/Hawkboy stuff?

By: chuck

chuck — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 04:37:09 +0000

Thank you for your take. Well, said.

My view is a bit different. Many of his songs are angry and sometimes crude and that does express the inner dialogue of many men who sit in churches everyday. These are not the hypocrites who claim the Christian reward but really just treat the Church like a social or political club. These are men who are missing something, they know they are missing something, they cannot figure out what they are missing and they are afraid to stand up ans say “hey, I am missing something. I don’t feel these showers of mercy and grace.” Bazan’s heroism is that he was willing to express these men’s inner dialogue and say “I am missing something.” It is a tragedy that he has not found it, so he decided it does not exist.

Once again, thank you for your comments. I very much appreciate the quality of your opinion.

By: Shanon

Shanon — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:33:35 +0000

I don’t know why this is a shock to most fans. I’ve never been much of a ptl fan, but this is sad nonetheless.
Honestly, I always found his songwriting to be shocking for the sake of alienating the conservative base, Christian or otherwise. I never felt like his music, as honest as it is was, actually contributed to the Christian music genre. I always felt like I was listening to an angry college kid, disgruntled with the church.
Honesty is great, but you can word it in such a way that doesn’t put people off. You can say the same things in an artistic way without dropping f bombs and making crude sexual references. I never trusted his claims to the faith; it just seemed like a way to be cool and different.
I pray for his salvation, like I would any other. But he’s hardly a Christian hero, by any means

By: ian

ian — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:06:24 +0000

these issues get talked about alot in the office

By: Joshua

Joshua — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:45:06 +0000

I think it’s sad. He needs prayers now more than ever. The devil is always going to target those in seats of influence, and some get through that struggle and some succumb to it. I’m not sure if you’ve covered it or not, but mewithoutYou (I feel) is going down a dangerous path too of inter-faith and universalism… I was sad to hear the newest album (even in all it’s melodic grooves!) and the lyrics of it. After I read an interview where mwY (Mike Weiss) admitted that the songs are exploring an idea that ‘maybe there isn’t just one way to God’, I cried!