Chapter 2

Chapter 2
Street Gangs, Skin Heads, Gothic Rockers, Bat- Cavers, Satanists, and Gay Circles are just some of the groups that many teens affiliate with. While some of these groups are violent, some are also passive. Out of all groups, Street Gangs are the most notorious and the most admired by young people. Gangster Rap is the most popular type of music that crosses into so many different teen groupings, not all Rappers have a bad influence on kids but Gangster Rap is the most popular and the one to watch out for. Blatant sexual overtones are very raunchy and demeaning to females however female Rappers simply return back the same evil to the male gender. Murder, Drugs, Money, Power and Sex are some of the heavy- handed messages that are preached to and programmed into our youth by these evangelists of darkness. It’s sad but true that the reason for some of Raps popularity is that the words mirror what kids are feeling and going through today.
Most young people fantasize about being someone powerful, in my day it was 007 James Bond or Batman or Clint Eastwood, but Gangsters are the folk heroes of their times, tough guys that don’t “take it from nobody,” intimidating people just by looking at them. Gangsters were the first to coin the phrase “Wanna -Be” kids that weren’t tough enough to be taken seriously. But I have learned that if you wanna-be long enough, you will be. Rap Music brings cohesiveness amongst youth it is the solidifying factor that brings conformity, at the shelter I work at I have observed that soon as the boom-box starts playing Rap no matter what groups kids are affiliated with they all start rapping together and as long as the music is playing everybody gets along.
Some kids act like Gangsters because their having an identity crisis, not sure where they fit in and so they play a roll that is meant to throw other kids and even their own parents off track. Teens who join intense groups such as White Power groups i.e. Skin Heads, Neo-Nazis and the White Supremacy attach themselves to a form of Religion that uses the Holy Bible as their foundation but having no intrinsic power, this is what I like to call “Twisted Inverted Scripture” following in the footsteps of Adolf Hitler who claimed to be a Roman Catholic Jesuit Priest. Moreover, history proves that they view any race that is not white as not only inferior but also a target for torture and even murder.
Gothic Rockers are in comparison to street gangs, a recently new order of teenage cultism, they listen to dark lonely and depressing music, and tread on the edge of Satanism, like the underground Group the “Bat Cavers” who prefer to dress in all black and wear black makeup and nail polish and for those who can afford it, pay a dentist to implant fangs in their mouths they share a camaraderie of feasting on gloominess. One of their favorite rockers is Marilyn Manson, who is associated with the founder of modern-day Satanism Anton La`vey and his order the Organized Church of Satan in San Francisco. It is rumored that before Anton’s death that he imparted and passed down his Satanic anointing to Marilyn by the laying on of hands and performing a special black mass, enabling Marilyn to carry on and continue to spared the gospel of darkness with power via his music. Modern day Satanism defines their movement based on pleasure most of it sexual, inspired by Alistair Crawly the self-proclaimed Great Beast of the book of Revelation 666 and the meanest man on earth, whose gospel was; do what ever thou wilt shall be the whole of the law, no matter what it is. The Satanist group says that they do not believe in Satan as an actual entity they worship, they worship the concept. “Yeah What Ever”.
Concerning teen gay circles my purpose is not to attack or bash teens that chose their own sexual “orientation,” but to address a very indisputable reality that many parents who are in disagreement with or humiliated by are in denial of this modern day observable fact that has penetrated their home life. Yes, there have been homosexuals’ almost since the beginning of time, as we know it. And we’ve probably heard most of the controversy from both sides. Some saying that they were born this way and it’s in their DNA or it is the result of child sexual abuse. Homosexuals have their own Non-Denominational Churches as well and greet and welcome anyone gay or strait who wants to inter in. The strait people argue that an Exit is not an Entrance and so forth. The ridicule and mockery at school isolates them from most teen groups accept maybe the Goths, thousands have been kicked out of the house by their parents who couldn’t accept them where they were at.
During my days working on the streets of Seattle Washington I met and befriended many of these teens. They didn’t try to get me to come to their side nor did I try to get them to come to mine. With any of the groups I carefully considered how would Jesus relate to them and as with all people groups he told them the truth and gave them a choice to follow him or not. Furthermore, there is no question in my heart at all that Jesus would show the same love to one group as another. The book of Acts 10:34 tells us that God is “no respecter of persons” meaning that he loves all people and treats them the same.
A few gays gave their life to Jesus while I worked the streets and without any prompting from me, chose to turn away from homosexuality of their own volition. When I lead someone to the Lord I don’t tell them what they have to repent form, I simply let them know whatever they know in their heart of hearts needs to change then turn away from it.
By the way some readers may not know what the word repentance means, to repent means to do an about face or a 360 and start heading the opposite direction they have been traveling in.Homosexual’s have chosen the word “Gay” as their persona, but it has always seemed to me that they are anything but gay (happy)as a matter of fact I’ve noticed that there is a real longing for acceptance and not finding it except within their own circle leaves them quite lonely, at least that is my observation.