Alice Cooper and the Fascination of Evil

The stage shows of American rock musician, Alice Cooper seek to shock and provoke. Indeed the reborn Christian will not show the mastery of evil, rather his fans will be shown the finality of Heaven and Hell.

The concert of the US-American rock musician Alice Cooper has shocking and provoking elements like scenes of torture and execution scenes. Indeed, Alice Cooper is Christian and wants his fans to think about the reality of Heaven and Hell. He said this in an interview with the "Cologne City Informer".

He was born in 1948 as Vincent Furnier in a Christian family and his father was a protestant minister. When he was becoming famous in his younger years, he was very far from his faith. He became an alcoholic and drove his marriage to ruin. 1983 he entered into a recovery clinic and became surprisingly quickly free of his alcohol addiction. "The doctors could not figure out how I had recovered so quickly. I knew, though, that God had helped me. Since then I've cared about the immortality of my soul", said the musician to the Koeln Statdtanzeiger Since his recovery, he's read daily from the Bible and goes Sundays to church.

In his music and in his stage shows, he keeps himself apart from evil, because it, even like death, works a powerful fascination. Alice Cooper actually said: "Whoever travels with a car on the street, and looks left at Disney World and then sees two autos crash on the right, will always look to the right. We have this morbid curiosity, because we know, that we will all finally die."

It isn't just a game with evil with him though. "This fascination is dangerous though. For that reason I try to make it clear to my fans, that Hell is final. Whoever wants to go to heaven, should not waste his life on earth." On his Homepage he has cited the words: "Evil will be punished. It will never win." In his various stage shows he puts himself in various bad guy roles, which come to a bad end.

On the question if his father and his current pastor are not horrified by his shows, he told the Koeln paper: "Certainly not. Both have seen most of my concerts and were impressed, how multifacetedly Alice Cooper embodies evil. For the most part many of my critics must admit after a concert visit, that I do not honor the Devil. On the contrary: I ridicule the Devil."

Original at Kath.net...