Sons of the Silent Age Lyrics

Lyric discussion by TheThornBirds 

Cover art for Sons of the Silent Age lyrics by David Bowie

This is about the christian right's ridiculous interpretation of their book of Revelation and the End Times theology made popular by those god-awful Left Behind books. Their BS martyr feelings that we are living in a secular age where THEY are a minority that is percecuted. What a lie! The majority of people in the U.S. are Christian and there is no threat being posed to these few fundies by their less ridiculous moderates or by atheists or secularists. But they suffer in their deluded deception, thinking the world is getting closer to it's end because (finally) homosexuals are getting the rights they deserve, and people are shrugging off supertitious views of the world.

But... it was written in 1977???