This song is the reason alot of Christians hate REM. (well, at least the dumber ones. no Christians, im not saying you are dumb, but every group has a few idiots mixed in)
mostly because of the first line "I can't say that I love Jesus, that would be a hollow claim"
ive always thought that this meant that it's really impossible to actually love someone who you have never met or seen, only read about.
and it's about how Christians like to force their religion on others, and tell them that if they don't believe what they do they will go to hell. but, not just Christians, its about America, the government promoting Christianity and saying all other religions are false even though it's supposed to be a country of religious tolerance.
why should it matter what people think of Jesus? im not of any religion at all, but i do believe Jesus did exist. and that he was a great man, and diserves respect. a peace activist, like ghandi, john lennon, and martin luther king... and just like them, he was brutally murdered for his veiws. though the idea of him being the son of god is well, completely unbelievable to me. even if he was, i would never worship him, i find the idea of worship to be degrading to both parties involved.
perhaps this song is about a view of religion similar to mine, especially on the concept of Jesus.
@EvilVulture Well, his actual name isn't known for sure, but historians do say there's good cause to believe that the Jesus character is based on a real person, the leader of a new religious movement. Of course most of the NT was written generations after the events described actually happened, based on oral tradition that had inflated Jesus's reputation from just a popular leader (whom the Romans considered enough of a threat that they had him executed by one of their notoriously, umm, creative methods: much more brutal than a mere gun) to a god, so it's pretty...
@EvilVulture Well, his actual name isn't known for sure, but historians do say there's good cause to believe that the Jesus character is based on a real person, the leader of a new religious movement. Of course most of the NT was written generations after the events described actually happened, based on oral tradition that had inflated Jesus's reputation from just a popular leader (whom the Romans considered enough of a threat that they had him executed by one of their notoriously, umm, creative methods: much more brutal than a mere gun) to a god, so it's pretty much certain that many of the claims (certainly the rather large number of ones that are not even plausible) are made-up, although the people who first wrote them down may well have believed them to be true.
This song is the reason alot of Christians hate REM. (well, at least the dumber ones. no Christians, im not saying you are dumb, but every group has a few idiots mixed in) mostly because of the first line "I can't say that I love Jesus, that would be a hollow claim"
ive always thought that this meant that it's really impossible to actually love someone who you have never met or seen, only read about.
and it's about how Christians like to force their religion on others, and tell them that if they don't believe what they do they will go to hell. but, not just Christians, its about America, the government promoting Christianity and saying all other religions are false even though it's supposed to be a country of religious tolerance.
why should it matter what people think of Jesus? im not of any religion at all, but i do believe Jesus did exist. and that he was a great man, and diserves respect. a peace activist, like ghandi, john lennon, and martin luther king... and just like them, he was brutally murdered for his veiws. though the idea of him being the son of god is well, completely unbelievable to me. even if he was, i would never worship him, i find the idea of worship to be degrading to both parties involved.
perhaps this song is about a view of religion similar to mine, especially on the concept of Jesus.
@EvilVulture Well, his actual name isn't known for sure, but historians do say there's good cause to believe that the Jesus character is based on a real person, the leader of a new religious movement. Of course most of the NT was written generations after the events described actually happened, based on oral tradition that had inflated Jesus's reputation from just a popular leader (whom the Romans considered enough of a threat that they had him executed by one of their notoriously, umm, creative methods: much more brutal than a mere gun) to a god, so it's pretty...
@EvilVulture Well, his actual name isn't known for sure, but historians do say there's good cause to believe that the Jesus character is based on a real person, the leader of a new religious movement. Of course most of the NT was written generations after the events described actually happened, based on oral tradition that had inflated Jesus's reputation from just a popular leader (whom the Romans considered enough of a threat that they had him executed by one of their notoriously, umm, creative methods: much more brutal than a mere gun) to a god, so it's pretty much certain that many of the claims (certainly the rather large number of ones that are not even plausible) are made-up, although the people who first wrote them down may well have believed them to be true.
@EvilVulture You're a shihead for your comment. Thank you very much.
@EvilVulture You're a shihead for your comment. Thank you very much.