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Chris Stedman | Jun 23, 2014 |


Tim Lambesis of As I Lay Dying. Photo by Matthias Bauer, via Wikimedia Commons.

Tim Lambesis—lead singer of metalcore band As I Lay Dying, who last month was sentenced to six years in prison for plotting to murder his ex-wife—made headlines over the weekend after admitting that he was actually an atheist.

This admission was a surprise to many. Lambesis publicly identified as a Christian for many years and As I Lay Dying gained a large Christian following. As the Christian Post wrote in 2011: “In a genre known for its secularism, As I Lay Dying stands out from the crowd by spreading God’s message in mosh pits.”

But then things changed. In a lengthy interview with Alternative Press, Lambesis said:

[While studying religion in college] I’d get three pages of the traditional evangelical conservative point of view, then three paragraphs or sometimes even just three sentences from the atheist perspective. But even in just a few sentences, I’d think, ‘This point of view makes more sense,’ even when it wasn’t being well represented. In the process of trying to defend my faith, I started thinking the other point of view was the stronger one.

Why did he keep his atheism secret? “I was afraid it would affect As I Lay Dying sales, which would affect my overall income,” said Lambesis. “Truthfully, I was an atheist. The ‘strategy’ I had at the time was cowardly.”

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And just i case anyone was wondering if what Stedman described happened here, it did:

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