Christian's inferno appears to be the modern world ("the modern hell"). The speaker of the verse is Christian expressing a bitter tone after receiving a "rejection letter in the mail." In the May 2009 Rolling Stone interview, Billie Joe said that he wanted to make sure that "Christian's Inferno" wasn't going on in his own house. Maybe he's hoping that his own son isn't being pushed over the edge like Christian, the messiah ("I am the chosen one") who seems to have received the straw that will obliterate the camel's back ("I am the atom bomb ... / Toxin your reservoir / And then return man to ape."
Christian's inferno appears to be the modern world ("the modern hell"). The speaker of the verse is Christian expressing a bitter tone after receiving a "rejection letter in the mail." In the May 2009 Rolling Stone interview, Billie Joe said that he wanted to make sure that "Christian's Inferno" wasn't going on in his own house. Maybe he's hoping that his own son isn't being pushed over the edge like Christian, the messiah ("I am the chosen one") who seems to have received the straw that will obliterate the camel's back ("I am the atom bomb ... / Toxin your reservoir / And then return man to ape."