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That changed, however, when a friend of the band visited their studio and declared, "I'm a Christian now. I know you guys have gone down that [other] path, and you're not now, but listen, if you give your band to God, He's going to do things that you never even dreamed of," Sweet recalled. "It kind of blew my mind," said Sweet, adding that he heeded the counsel and the band ultimately became explicitly Christian.
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"As musicians, we're certainly aware of other people's opinions," said Corgan, "especially at that particular time, making that kind of decision and say[ing], 'OK, now we're going to sort of represent that.' Not, 'We're going to hide it in our lyrics and sort of just play along.' Like, 'We're going to come out and say this i...