i'm a christian and i love bad religion, and this song. It's pretty damn witty, and the folk kinda style of the song is fun too. The bible for the most part is a bunch of padding and garbage, but BR hits the Jesus part wrong. His purpose wasn't to cure hunger, or save the world "literally". But hey, the rest of the song works.
@ShesMyAlcatraz Well, I think as a Christian you would probably understand the meaning of that passage being that Jesus came to cure our spiritual hunger. Jesus didn't send manna down from heaven like God did with Moses and a lot of Christians take this and other statements like "the poor you will always have with you" to mean that the Church ought to give zero shits about alleviating poverty. In the Gospel story, Jesus was being tempted by the Devil to turn stones into bread as part of the three temptations (the second one being to attempt suicide and the...
@ShesMyAlcatraz Well, I think as a Christian you would probably understand the meaning of that passage being that Jesus came to cure our spiritual hunger. Jesus didn't send manna down from heaven like God did with Moses and a lot of Christians take this and other statements like "the poor you will always have with you" to mean that the Church ought to give zero shits about alleviating poverty. In the Gospel story, Jesus was being tempted by the Devil to turn stones into bread as part of the three temptations (the second one being to attempt suicide and the third being to bow down to the devil in exchange for worldly power. So the New Testament story is a little misinterpreted in this song, but Gurewitz means it in context of the church's actions in society I think viz a viz women's rights to abortion, human rights and the imperative for society to provide for the poor (and the failure of the Church to do so).
i'm a christian and i love bad religion, and this song. It's pretty damn witty, and the folk kinda style of the song is fun too. The bible for the most part is a bunch of padding and garbage, but BR hits the Jesus part wrong. His purpose wasn't to cure hunger, or save the world "literally". But hey, the rest of the song works.
@ShesMyAlcatraz Why wasn't curing hunger his purpose though? Why does unjust suffering exist? That's rhetorical, btw.
@ShesMyAlcatraz Why wasn't curing hunger his purpose though? Why does unjust suffering exist? That's rhetorical, btw.
@ShesMyAlcatraz Well, I think as a Christian you would probably understand the meaning of that passage being that Jesus came to cure our spiritual hunger. Jesus didn't send manna down from heaven like God did with Moses and a lot of Christians take this and other statements like "the poor you will always have with you" to mean that the Church ought to give zero shits about alleviating poverty. In the Gospel story, Jesus was being tempted by the Devil to turn stones into bread as part of the three temptations (the second one being to attempt suicide and the...
@ShesMyAlcatraz Well, I think as a Christian you would probably understand the meaning of that passage being that Jesus came to cure our spiritual hunger. Jesus didn't send manna down from heaven like God did with Moses and a lot of Christians take this and other statements like "the poor you will always have with you" to mean that the Church ought to give zero shits about alleviating poverty. In the Gospel story, Jesus was being tempted by the Devil to turn stones into bread as part of the three temptations (the second one being to attempt suicide and the third being to bow down to the devil in exchange for worldly power. So the New Testament story is a little misinterpreted in this song, but Gurewitz means it in context of the church's actions in society I think viz a viz women's rights to abortion, human rights and the imperative for society to provide for the poor (and the failure of the Church to do so).