Posted on 09/18/2008 10:12:47 AM PDT by ksen
I'm sick of all your rules
They're so man made
You treat them all like fools
You put my name to shame
I'm everything you're not
I give them love
My ways you have forgot
You put yourselves above
I'll testify
It's time to see Religion die
The truth can't lie
It's time to see Religion die
Who cares?
Who's right?
It's time to see Religion die
I'll crush the fight
It's time to see Religion die
My Church is not inside
Your building walls
On Sundays you all hide
While the world just falls
Now go into the world
And destroy hell
You have authority
Use it for the kill
I'll testify
It's time to see Religion die
The truth can't lie
It's time to see Religion die
Who cares?
Who's right?
It's time to see Religion die
I'll crush the fight
It's time to see Religion die
Children come Away with me
I want you all To be mine
I am Taking back what's mine, and
You've killed too much time with
Pointing all your fingers at your kids
that's why they're lost
Try To look deep in their eyes
You will see suicide
Blame it on yourself cuz no one else will pay your price
Your price
Die just - Die Religion Die just die
Die just - Die Religion Die just die
Die (7x)
Die Religion die
Die (3x)
Do not be afraid
Religion is man made
Everything is OK
The rules have just been changed
Anyone else hear this album yet?
My daughter heard him speak at the recent "Rock the Universe" concert at Universal Studios. She taped it with her camera and he has a very good testimony. I'll see about getting her to YouTube it and post a link.
Here’s a review of the album:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/music/reviews/2008/savemefrommyself.html
Yeah, people will probably react to the title before reading the OP.
American Christianity is much too insular.
Compelling lyrics.
Long time no see. How are things?
Yawn.
I remember my first read of Nietzsche, too.
Yeah, the whole album is a good look into the life of a man who was rescued from a lot of bad things by the power of God.
For a pretty new Christian I like what he has to say.
Long time no see. How are things?
They're pretty frantic these days. We've gone from homeschooling 3 kids to having one start college and putting the other two in private schools. My wife has been searching for a job since the end of July but not working outside the home for the past 14 years isn't helping. Prayers for her job search would be appreciated. Other than all that things have been going real well.
I miss you on the other place, drop a note when you have a minute.
Did you read the lyrics? Welch is no Nietzsche.
Loving God indeed means putting up with all of the flawed and fallen people trying to find Him as well.
People are social animals; people do not fully exist outside of the context of their relationships with other people. The spiritual component of those social relationships is religion. Trying to destroy that social element of spirituality will inevitably mean the destruction of spirituality. So, trying to kill religion, in the end, necessitates killing God.
Q.E.D., Beyond Good and Evil, Also Sprach Zarathustra, etc.
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Understand
It's for the sake
Of every man
That I must take
This whole world back
To make things right
I will attack
I came to fight
I will rise a generation up to be my soldiers
I will tie my heart to yours put my head on your shoulders
Make your escape from life with Adonai
Everything in life depends on Adonai
Understand
It's for the sake
Of every man
That I must take
This whole world back
To make things right
I will attack
I came to fight
Natural disasters will keep coming but don't worry
My people don't live in fear of death that's how you should be
Make your escape from life with Adonai
Everything in life depends on Adonai
Lift all your worries up to Adonai
You will all stop hurting come to Adonai
Leave me alone now
I'm not from here
My home's in Heaven
Leave me alone
Rise
Rise
Rise up Adonai (x4)
Let your worries rest on Adonai
Life is just a test from Adonai
Make your escape from life with Adonai
Everything in life depends on Adonai
Lift all your worries up to Adonai
You will all stop hurting come to Adonai
Understand
It's for the sake
Of every man
That I must take
This whole world back
To make things right
I will attack
I came to fight (x8)
Unless of course you see “religion” as obstacles being put in between men and God by other men.
Jesus made further works of sacrifice obsolete, not further worship and acts of love—the love of others which is missing from this song in its desire to destroy what other fallible sinners have built in the centuries since Jesus’ perfect act of sacrifice.
I see the love of others driving this song. "Others" being those turned away from God because of what organized religions have come to be.
This could be easily constructed as a Black metal song if some lyrical substitutions are made
Hi, Ksen. It’s good to hear from you.
I’ve not heard the song. I’ll have to listen for it. I understand what Welch is saying, but “pure religion and undefiled before God is this: to visit widows and orphans in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.”
But Welch means being “a talker and not a walker.” I can live with that.
We all tire of being part of a business that never ships it’s products. We spend all our time on the assembly lines making the product, packaging it, and even holding strategy meetings, team-building meetings, and future visioning meetings.
But...we never ship the product.
No wonder our sales are so low and our business is a laughingstock.
Grace, brother.
Love doesn’t take sides, though; it unifies.
That is so very completely true, but probably not in the way you mean it. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy for Welch, that he has found meaning in his life through whatever means. But those lyrics are pretty surface level stuff. Nietzsche, like him or not, operated on many different levels simultaneously.
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