Yes.  Oddly enough perhaps, Black Sabbath released the first Christian heavy metal song "After Forever" (from Master of Reality) in 1971.  Sorry, Jerusalem/Resurrection Band/Leviticus/Stryper fans, they may have been the first official "Christian hard rock/metal artists," but Geeze Butler and Ozzy Osbourne himself beat you them all.  Here's a video of Ozzy singing it for the 1998 reunion tour. I love the intro.  Lyrics and further commentary are below.

Have you ever thought about your soul - can it be saved?
Or perhaps you think that when you're dead you just stay in your grave
Is God just a thought within your head or is he a part of you?
Is Christ just a name that you read in a book when you were in school?

When you think about death do you lose your breath or
do you keep your cool?
Would you like to see the Pope on the end of a rope
do you think he's a fool?
Well I have seen the truth, yes I've seen the light and I've changed my ways
And I'll be prepared when you're lonely and scared at the end of our days

Could it be you're afraid of what your friends might say
IF THEY KNEW you believed in God above?
They should realize before they criticize
that God is the only way to love

Is your mind so small that you have to fall
In with the pack wherever they run
Will you still sneer when death is near
And say they may as well worship the sun?

I think it was true it was people like you that crucified Christ
I think it is sad the opinion you had was the only one voiced
Will you be so sure when your day is near, say you don't believe?
You had the chance but you turned it down, now you can't retrieve

Perhaps you'll think before you say that God is dead and gone
Open your eyes, just realize that he's the one
The only one who can save you now from all this sin and hate
Or will you jeer at all you hear? Yes! I think it's too late.

A bit accusatory for my tastes, but bassist and songwriter Geeze Butler lays it out like a true 1970s Jesus freak. There are various renditions of the religious life of Sabbath, Ozzy, etc.  You can do your own research on that.  I make no claims here.  I'm not that interested.  BUT, I do want to point out for any former or current Christian metal heads, 2011 will be the 40th anniversary of Christian metal...

Unless you count War Pigs from 1970, which is maybe the first (less overtly Christian) apocalyptic metal song (Christian anti-war song?).

"Ohhh LORD, YEAH!!!!"

It doesn't take more than the first 2 minutes to get the idea.  This guy thinks Billy Graham is going to hell.  He thinks Graham is going to hell because Graham thinks some certain people might NOT go to hell.  Now, as far as I know, the preacher in the video above is a "nobody."  I mean, I'm sure God loves him and "all [people] created equal and endowed by their creator..." and all that, but you know what I mean.  Graham, on the other hand, is the most prominent evangelist of the 20th century (in case you didn't know).

So, there it is from the man himself.  In 1978, in a McCall's magazine interview, Graham (or the organization, for Graham) said, "I used to think that pagans in far-off countries were lost--were going to hell--if they did not have the Gospel of Jesus Christ preached to them.  I no longer believe that... I believe there are other ways of recognizing the existence of God... and plenty of other opportunities, therefore, of saying yes to God."

C.S. Lewis has been criticized for similar views (this link has some other interesting links).  At the end of The Last Battle, Lewis wrote the following famous exchange between a follower of the Anti-Aslan, Satan-figure Tash, and Aslan himself, narrated by the man:

"Then I fell at his feet and thought, Surely this is the hour of death, for the Lion (who is worthy of all honour) will know that I have served Tash all my days and not him. Nevertheless, it is better to see the Lion and die than to be Tisroc of the world and live and not to have seen him. But the Glorious One bent down his golden head and touched my forehead with his tongue and said, Son, thou art welcome. But I said, Alas, Lord, I am no son of thine but the servant of Tash. He answered, Child, all the service thou hast done to Tash, I account as service done to me. Then by reasons of my great desire for wisdom and understanding, I overcame my fear and questioned the Glorious One and said, Lord, is it then true, as the Ape said, that thou and Tash are one? The Lion growled so that the earth shook (but his wrath was not against me) and said, It is false. Not because he and I are one, but because we are opposites, I take to me the services which thou hast done to him. For I and he are of such different kinds that no service which is vile can be done to me, and none which is not vile can be done to him. Therefore if any man swear by Tash and keep his oath for the oath's sake, it is by me that he has truly sworn, though he know it not, and it is I who reward him. And if any man do a cruelty in my name, then, though he says the name Aslan, it is Tash whom he serves and by Tash his deed is accepted. Dost thou understand, Child? I said, Lord, thou knowest how much I understand. But I said also (for the truth constrained me), Yet I have been seeking Tash all my days. Beloved, said the Glorious One, unless thy desire had been for me thou shouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek."

So, the most popular Christian apologist of the 20th century was also an "inclusivist."  Of course, neither of these men were professionally trained "theologians" nor does their adherence to a belief turn that belief into the proper or even an acceptable Christian position.  In The Great Divorce, Lewis even suggests that some Christian theologians might have a theology club in hell. I'm not very interested in discussing the eternal fate of either of these men, or anyone else necessarily, but Gandhi usually comes up in these conversations.  So, in our class discussion on Friday, I took a vote.  On Nov. 22, 2010, 38 out of 70 Christian college students (with their heads bowed and eyes closed) raised their hands in answer to the question, "Do you expect to see Gandhi in heaven?"

I see that hand...
For another interesting video on the subject, head over to my friend Scott's site.

What makes us who we are? This is one of the most fruitful questions I ask students in many of my classes. 

In Carolyn Marvin’s Blood Sacrifice and the Nation, she notes (perhaps stating the obvious) that “Americans have rarely bled, sacrificed or died for Christianity or any other sectarian faith.  Americans have often bled, sacrificed and died for their country (9).” She also observes that legitimate killing is reserved for the behest of the deity in most religious systems (10).  Which brings us to George Washington...