- Hey guys,
Enjoyed today’s podcast with Northworst, just wanted to share this David Benoit story after y’all mentioned him on the podcast. He came to the church I was attending in the 90’s to preach a conference on the evils for Rock music and Hollywood in general. The meeting was right around Valentine’s Day , and my young daughter had bought me a tie that had the Tin man and hearts all over it. We were all (and still are) Wizard of Oz fans. Well I shook David’s hand before the meeting started and I noticed him eying my tie. Well when he got up to preach he stated the Lord had led him to change his message and he was going to preach on the evils of kids fantasy movies and so called good witches. Well it didn’t take long for him to center in on the worst movie of all times the dreaded Wizard of Oz!!!! He railed on and hammered on evils Glenda, Dorothy , the Lion the tin man the Scarecrow and every other character you could think of. Thankfully he didn’t say anything bad about Toto. Well me being me as soon as he started in on the Wizard I turned into a Tony Hudson in the pew. I AMENED every point !!! Shouted for him to “hit that again preacher”a few time. You would have thought I was on the front pew of Pastors’ school or at the last night of a Greer Camp Meeting. I kept waiting on him to mention the tie but he never did.
Well That weekend for family night we watched the Oz Again.
Just another funny (but actually sad) story from the life of an x Pastor’s School fundamentalist
#EveryBodyOk?👂
I also heard David speak at a Christian college where he talked about the fact that the Eagles “Hotel California“ album cover included Anton LeVay pictured in the window of the hotel. Anton was supposed to be the head of the Satanist church, I guess. I would like to know if that is true, but don’t know if it would change my love for much of the Music of the Eagles. I was fortunate to grow up in an independent fundamental church as my dad was pastor and he was as real as they come. He still is. He’s all KJV (I’m not), but I would not change a thing about him or my mom. Truly God-loving people.
According to Snopes, that figure was a woman hired for the photo shoot, not Anton LeVay (who is indeed the founder of the church of Satan).
I remember Benoit. He came to Franklin Road Baptist in the 90s and when he started preaching against Star Wars and Yoda, my mom gave me this look that said “This nut has gone off the rails, just tune him out”. It was always popular to preach on anything remotely media related because it didn’t actually affect anyone and it was something everyone could agree on as being ‘wrong’. Benoit preached at one of our youth group retreats and I don’t know what he said to the boys only sermon they had one day, but he said or did something inappropriate and was never invited back.
Things that are made by the world are not our source for truth. Certainly, Star Wars has “the force”, which is not God. But the film has good stuff: self-sacrifice, loyalty, heroism. It really depends what one chooses to focus upon.
Can you be more specific about the content of your article? After reading it, I still have some doubts. Hope you can help me.