Get Born Again

He has stated that the song is about religious hypocrisy.

musicbank has got it, but so have you with the whole saviour thing too. Basically "Get Born Again" could easily mean a new beginning (i.e. "See The Light" [it's a Green Day song too, I know]).

" "Jesus Christ, Deny your maker, He who tries, Will be wasted." This line obviously states that there is no reason to run from God or try to defy him,"<br /> <br /> That's not what it means. The line just highlights what psychopathic tyrants all these gods are. They force people into existence, and if those people realize how idiotic their god is, they then get tortured forever.<br /> <br /> And really, there is nothing ambiguous about god in AiC's songs. They either don't believe in any, or have tons of problems with one if it did exist.<br />

@ViLeMetal You are so fucking. stupid. OVER HERE EVERYBODY, PRIME EXAMPLE OF THE MENTAL GYMNASTICS REQUIRED RUIN YOUR LIFE, and the LIVES OF OTHERS VIA THE DOGMA OF ASS-BACKWARDS CHRISTIANITY. <br /> <br /> Okay so no one else sees religious themes in this song? The name of the song is Get Born Again, if you don't recognize that phrase it basically means get saved, ask Jesus to be your savior, etc. I was seeing this song as one of two possible meanings, of course I was hearing some words incorrectly too. One idea I had was that it's a song about people that go to church but honestly couldn't give less of a crap about Jesus. My line of thought there was that I was hearing "Just to eat a couple lies" as 'Just repeat a couple lies', which led me to think that the lies in question were things like "I'm sorry for my sins" that one would say when praying for repentance. Of course, the line "Hope to wish away the lies" doesn't agree with that meaning very well... <br /> <br /> Hey at least your ears are working even if your brain isn't. Props for noticing the subtle shift from "Just repeat a couple lines, LIES yeah". He is saying this tongue in cheek. Imagine your mom saying, "Yay , how would you guys like mamwhich for dinner?" and you say to your brother, 'more like BLANDwhich" And you two laugh hysterically for a minute. We do this all the time. Subtlety changing a letter or a syllable for comedic effect. <br /> <br /> Buddy, open your eyes you fool. The LIES, are every word of your FAITH. Every bible passage , every sermon, service, and after-church prepubescent proposition. <br /> <br /> The lyrics are only ambiguous if your a christian constancy bombarded with things which blatantly contradict your fragile world view and you don't have the power to handle them so you brush them under the rug and pretend the jury is still out. It doesn't make sense to your brain because you know Layne=good guy, so his blatantly anti-religious lyrics =good, but that cant' be because your core axiom your entire reality is based upon is religion=good, but you have no reason to actually believe that if you strip away all the lies, social pressure and nonsensical beliefs based upon misunderstanding reality , or having some preacher incorrectly explain origin of species after it was incorrectly explained to him by a you-tuber who had it explained to him by a "science" teacher in the deep south of the U.S. in their brief 20 minute explanation of why it's wrong and why creationism is right. THIS IS KNOWN AS COGNITIVE DISSONANCE. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance ,en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases We ALL HAVE BIASES. THE PEOPLE WHO DENY THAT STATEMENT SUFFER FROM THE MOST, THE ONLY WAY TO FREE YOURSELF FROM BIAS IS TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT. Start by reading up on all the known biases. Or Don't but don't go around spreading your thousand year old lies then or we got a problem. I live on this fucking rock too, and nobody deserve the endless negative effects of religion existing on this planet. c<br /> <br /> NEWSFLASH THE JURY IS BACK AND THEY'VE DECIDED, YOUR WRONG. I could attack all religion but I don't even need to I just need to prove how fucking stupid and evil your religion is , and hopefully your logic systems will kick and you'll realize that there's nothing special about your religion and if yours was bullshit then all of them are bullshit. Religion is negatively correlated with all measures of societal happiness. The least religious are the happiest with the highest life expediencies and the highest per capita GDP, as well as overall best health, and the list goes on and on. Scandinavia being the least religious part of the world. Africa being the most , and the worst off by far. Religion is something to be disposed of like training wheels, it at one point served a purpose other than controlling the masses, but now people can read, the priests are not needed, the book can be judged on it's own, and when done so it comes up as complete and utter garbage. Not even worth the paper it's printed on. Those poor poor fucking trees, I'm sure they would have rather been burned than to end up with that garbage printed on them. Condoning rape, racism, slavery, pretending ignorance, dimwitted, illogical faith in that which you have no evidence for are somehow merits, or virtuous.

@ViLeMetal You are so fucking. stupid. OVER HERE EVERYBODY, PRIME EXAMPLE OF THE MENTAL GYMNASTICS REQUIRED RUIN YOUR LIFE, and the LIVES OF OTHERS VIA THE DOGMA OF ASS-BACKWARDS CHRISTIANITY. <br /> <br /> Okay so no one else sees religious themes in this song? The name of the song is Get Born Again, if you don't recognize that phrase it basically means get saved, ask Jesus to be your savior, etc. I was seeing this song as one of two possible meanings, of course I was hearing some words incorrectly too. One idea I had was that it's a song about people that go to church but honestly couldn't give less of a crap about Jesus. My line of thought there was that I was hearing "Just to eat a couple lies" as 'Just repeat a couple lies', which led me to think that the lies in question were things like "I'm sorry for my sins" that one would say when praying for repentance. Of course, the line "Hope to wish away the lies" doesn't agree with that meaning very well... <br /> <br /> Hey at least your ears are working even if your brain isn't. Props for noticing the subtle shift from "Just repeat a couple lines, LIES yeah". He is saying this tongue in cheek. Imagine your mom saying, "Yay , how would you guys like mamwhich for dinner?" and you say to your brother, 'more like BLANDwhich" And you two laugh hysterically for a minute. We do this all the time. Subtlety changing a letter or a syllable for comedic effect. <br /> <br /> Buddy, open your eyes you fool. The LIES, are every word of your FAITH. Every bible passage , every sermon, service, and after-church prepubescent proposition. <br /> <br /> The lyrics are only ambiguous if your a christian constancy bombarded with things which blatantly contradict your fragile world view and you don't have the power to handle them so you brush them under the rug and pretend the jury is still out. It doesn't make sense to your brain because you know Layne=good guy, so his blatantly anti-religious lyrics =good, but that cant' be because your core axiom your entire reality is based upon is religion=good, but you have no reason to actually believe that if you strip away all the lies, social pressure and nonsensical beliefs based upon misunderstanding reality , or having some preacher incorrectly explain origin of species after it was incorrectly explained to him by a you-tuber who had it explained to him by a "science" teacher in the deep south of the U.S. in their brief 20 minute explanation of why it's wrong and why creationism is right. THIS IS KNOWN AS COGNITIVE DISSONANCE. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance ,en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases We ALL HAVE BIASES. THE PEOPLE WHO DENY THAT STATEMENT SUFFER FROM THE MOST, THE ONLY WAY TO FREE YOURSELF FROM BIAS IS TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT. Start by reading up on all the known biases. Or Don't but don't go around spreading your thousand year old lies then or we got a problem. I live on this fucking rock too, and nobody deserve the endless negative effects of religion existing on this planet. c<br /> <br /> NEWSFLASH THE JURY IS BACK AND THEY'VE DECIDED, YOUR WRONG. I could attack all religion but I don't even need to I just need to prove how fucking stupid and evil your religion is , and hopefully your logic systems will kick and you'll realize that there's nothing special about your religion and if yours was bullshit then all of them are bullshit. Religion is negatively correlated with all measures of societal happiness. The least religious are the happiest with the highest life expediencies and the highest per capita GDP, as well as overall best health, and the list goes on and on. Scandinavia being the least religious part of the world. Africa being the most , and the worst off by far. Religion is something to be disposed of like training wheels, it at one point served a purpose other than controlling the masses, but now people can read, the priests are not needed, the book can be judged on it's own, and when done so it comes up as complete and utter garbage. Not even worth the paper it's printed on. Those poor poor fucking trees, I'm sure they would have rather been burned than to end up with that garbage printed on them. Condoning rape, racism, slavery, pretending ignorance, dimwitted, illogical faith in that which you have no evidence for are somehow merits, or virtuous.