Check on the Christian bit, unfortunately. "She asks God why" is a better question than these people realise - the problem of evil, one still unsolved by theists.
Anyway, it's a beautiful song and the thread is great. It is sadly ruined by the last verse, very clearly a call from Jesus. This is precisely the attitude Ayaan Hirsi Ali reveals: a feeling that there is no point improving this world, or worrying about it, for instead we'll wrap ourselves up in the illusion of an afterlife. Truly the opiate of the people. An affirmation, moreover, that "we believe" simply sounds ridiculous: look at all the evil around us, and yet there is a god who honours Matthew 7:7 - "ask and you will receive"! Yes, we believe in him. Good Charlotte and millions of others need to wake up and do something about this evil they see, not trust in an old man in the sky to sort it out.
Finally, there is the arrogant trash in the third verse: "Let forgiveness wash away the pain" with the pretentiousness that all future sins could be forgiven 1972 years ago, as well as that anyone but the person sinned against could forgive. "This world is crying for so much more" is again the blind, ignorant and bigoted trash also expressed in Luther's "Secular Authority" - that, firstly, this world is not good enough for us, we need divine validation; and even more stupidly, that were every person a Christian, there would be no pain, evil or crime. So incredibly mindless.
Check on the Christian bit, unfortunately. "She asks God why" is a better question than these people realise - the problem of evil, one still unsolved by theists.
Anyway, it's a beautiful song and the thread is great. It is sadly ruined by the last verse, very clearly a call from Jesus. This is precisely the attitude Ayaan Hirsi Ali reveals: a feeling that there is no point improving this world, or worrying about it, for instead we'll wrap ourselves up in the illusion of an afterlife. Truly the opiate of the people. An affirmation, moreover, that "we believe" simply sounds ridiculous: look at all the evil around us, and yet there is a god who honours Matthew 7:7 - "ask and you will receive"! Yes, we believe in him. Good Charlotte and millions of others need to wake up and do something about this evil they see, not trust in an old man in the sky to sort it out.
Finally, there is the arrogant trash in the third verse: "Let forgiveness wash away the pain" with the pretentiousness that all future sins could be forgiven 1972 years ago, as well as that anyone but the person sinned against could forgive. "This world is crying for so much more" is again the blind, ignorant and bigoted trash also expressed in Luther's "Secular Authority" - that, firstly, this world is not good enough for us, we need divine validation; and even more stupidly, that were every person a Christian, there would be no pain, evil or crime. So incredibly mindless.
Still, a great song.