I told you fuckers Joseph Smith was punk...

...taken from Hellcat band Time Again's myspace "as some of you already know, this is going to be our last US tour for a couple years. Elijah is getting ready to go on his two year mormon mission and we didn't feel that it was right to replace him, so we all agreed to wait for him to get back before we start playing again. we can't say thank you enough for all the support you've given us since the band started. tour isn't even over yet and we already can't wait to start touring again haha, but i don't want to make this sound too sad, because it's not even over, we're just taking a little break. we will be back soon and we hope you will all still be there with the same support when we do come back."

While I would not consider this band the punkest of the punk; its nice to see that these guys aren't being shit on for supporting their band-mates religous beliefs. One of my major problems with the punk scene in my day was it pretty much went without asking that nobody believed in God. Now don't get me wrong I'm sure there are / were plenty of believers, but from my personal experience there really didn't seem to be a point in asking. I couldn't count how many times I would hear kids say things like "there is no such thing as God" and "The Bible is just a fairy tail" and it used to make me quite upset that for being such an "open minded" and "accepting" group of people how quickly you would be belittled for even mentioning your faith.

Not only does it make me happy that a "secular" punk band who is just starting to gain major notariety supports one of their members hauling ass for 2 years to wander around knocking on peoples doors, But scrolling through the comments I only came across 1 faggot who had anything negative to say. Like I said before these guys are no Murder Junkies and their fan base isn't the punkest crowd I've ever run across; At one of their shows in St. Pete there were enough mohawks and spikes in the joint that I thought I was going to need a tetnis shot afterwards.

In conclusion, its a breath of fresh air that a band outside of the small christian punk scene has members that aren't afraid to be open about their faith instead of hiding it, not bringing it up or flat out denying it in the name of being punk. If thats what punk is than fuck punk. I mean I'm not going to tell you what God you need to worship if any at all but I'm not going to hide who I am so some cocksucker can tell me how stupid and un-punk I am, and I think its really cool that they aren't either.