Well James Hetfield grew up in an extreme Christian cult called Christian Science which doesn't believe in medicine. Their method of healing is a bit bizarre and kinda makes the other Christians look like nutjobs. They believe in praying that their patient will get better which only happens like 1 out of 100 times. Hetfield's mother died because of the beliefs of that Christian cult so, upon touring in Metallica, he wrote several songs inspired by that depressing experience, including One, The Unforgiven (All three parts) and this song, The God that Failed. It's likely that Hetfield is still a religious Christian, but he most likely left that extreme cult for some of the more accepted Christian sects like Catholicism, Protestantism, Egyptian Orthodoxy, and Russian Orthodoxy.
Well James Hetfield grew up in an extreme Christian cult called Christian Science which doesn't believe in medicine. Their method of healing is a bit bizarre and kinda makes the other Christians look like nutjobs. They believe in praying that their patient will get better which only happens like 1 out of 100 times. Hetfield's mother died because of the beliefs of that Christian cult so, upon touring in Metallica, he wrote several songs inspired by that depressing experience, including One, The Unforgiven (All three parts) and this song, The God that Failed. It's likely that Hetfield is still a religious Christian, but he most likely left that extreme cult for some of the more accepted Christian sects like Catholicism, Protestantism, Egyptian Orthodoxy, and Russian Orthodoxy.