AC/DC at a funeral!

I went to a funeral in 2007 for a man who was obsessed with Elvis. . .and Elvis music was played at his funeral service. So it's no surprise that at the recent funeral for 23-year-old AC/DC fan Dana Butland of Canada, that band's music was played at the service. The pastor at the service, Timothy Johnson, spoke of his own love of heavy metal music as a teenager:

After a night of wild partying on Grand Lake, Johnson and his friends listened to Metallica just a few hours before sunrise. That's when, he said, God spoke to him and he eventually turned his life around for the better.

I personally like some heavy metal music, but we need to be aware of the media messages that we are putting into our brains. According to Canada East, Johnson also explained why AC/DC was played at the funeral: "If you reject a person's style of music, you also reject the person," the pastor said.