Faith/Void Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Arachidamia 

Cover art for Faith/Void lyrics by Bill Callahan

Someone is damning children and then finding peace within a lie? Please explain.

He's singing that he doesn't need religion to find peace (inner-peace), religion being the 'lie'.

I would guess that 'damning children' is in reference to children being having their parents' religion foisted upon them, or, more likely, to do with baptism - Christians believing that an unbaptised baby that died in infancy would not be able to enter heaven and would remain in Limbo/Purgatory.

Similarly I'd speculate that 'making the ill a little more sick' is about Christian Scientists refusal of medicine.

A very beautiful song.

I think 'making the ill a little more sick' has more to do with mentally than literally/physically.