Christian rock is a joke. Christian metal is even more of a farce.
Rock and roll is not about faith or conformity or going to church. It's about rebellion and doing your own thing.
Tim Lambesis (aw, how cute, he even has the "lamb" in his name) the frontman for "metalcore" band As I Lay Dying (haha!) just pleaded guilty of trying to hire a hit man to kill his wife. Say what? Hey, here's a good Christian for ya!!
Obviously, carrying around a "Christian" moniker is no guarantee of upstanding behavior or morality. That has been amply demonstrated throughout history. In many ways, carrying around the Christian banner suggests that you are an active hypocrite. Most, not all. At the least, it says flat out that you are misinformed and not all that bright.
And Tim is certainly a case in point. Hey, at least he pled guilty and didn't try to lie his way out of it. And at least he didn't blame the devil for his actions. It was steroids fault!! A real Christian! haha.
As I Lay Dying Frontman Pleads Guilty in Murder for Hire Plot
Tim Lambesis faces up to nine years in jail and $10,000 fine
Tim Lambesis, the frontman for metalcore band As I Lay Dying, has pleaded
guilty to his role in a murder-for-hire plot, admitting Tuesday that he had
hired a man to kill his wife. He faces a maximum sentence of nine years in
prison and $10,000 fine, according to
ABC 10 News.
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Undercover police in San Diego
arrested Lambesis last May after the singer had
begun seeking out a hit man to kill his estranged wife of eight years, Meggan,
who had asked the San Diego Superior Court to dissolve their marriage the
previous September. He reportedly gave an undercover detective $1,000 in cash,
as well as instructions on how to carry out the murder. After his arrest,
Lambesis
pleaded not guilty at his arraignment. A judge set
the singer's bail at $3 million and affixed a GPS monitoring device to him; he
was
later released on $2 million bail.
Lambesis'
lawyer told reporters that month that the vocalist
was on steroids when he hired the policeman. He said that as a result of
Lambesis's drug use, the vocalist's thought process was "devastatingly
affected."
At that point in time, news came out that Lambesis had written a letter to
Meggan saying that he no longer loved her and he had lost faith in God.
Furthermore, she discovered that he had carried on multiple affairs over the
course of their marriage and even had a girlfriend at the time. The couple had
adopted three children from Ethiopia and she said in her divorce filing that she
worried about his ability to care for the kids, as he was "obsessed with
bodybuilding." He also reportedly spent thousands of dollars on tattoos.
In September, a
court decided that Lambesis
would have to stand trial on the murder-for-hire
charges.
According to
NBC San Diego, the vocalist's
personal trainer testified at a pretrial hearing that "he wanted to know if
maybe I could find someone to do it for him."
The group's last album,
Awakened, came out in 2012 and debuted at
Number 11 on the
Billboard Top 200.
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