No idea if the band members intended the album to sound like a Nile album, but it does. Nevermind the heaviness the lyrics all atheistic are everything you'd never guess you'd find on a christian album. That said, I never knew As I Lay Dying was a christian band, or at least that all its members are christians. However, most lyrics on this album really are anti religion and anti God. Though I'm sure most christians would like to interpret it otherwise, not a single person I've shown the lyrics to that didn't know the members are christians thought it was pro religion, on the contrary they thought it was anti religion. Even after I've said that they are christians they thought the album to be anti religion. If that is what the band wanted to say and achieve, job well done since the lyrics are really great and there are some great memorable quotes here and there, if not then I have to say this is the biggest failure in the history of literature and music since the band then achieved the complete opposite of what they wanted to achieve. As off said, you can only interpret so much as pro religion then you stumble against a wall that simply doesn't allow for such interpretation any more. All of the songs on the album, especially this one show why:
What is the plague mentioned here? Religion!
They even say that religion blames what we cannot see (Lucifer) and that he doesn't abide by such foolish notions, he knows man is the true devil. Then he ultimately denies religious views by saying that there is nothing sacred in every human being believing in only that which he wants to believe in but that religion doesn't leave him any choice by having so many contradictions. The blind guide replacing divine eyes could be only anti religion and not anti God, however...divine eyes could be the eyes of mere men. Authority, subversion, anti God talk right there!
BUT you didnt finish the quote from the song... "while religion tries to blame what we cannot see (demons and the like) i accept that part of the problem is me" meaning that we have a sin nature and that its not always the demons fault we sin because we do that naturally, they jus push us in that direction but WE ultimately make the choice...
BUT you didnt finish the quote from the song... "while religion tries to blame what we cannot see (demons and the like) i accept that part of the problem is me" meaning that we have a sin nature and that its not always the demons fault we sin because we do that naturally, they jus push us in that direction but WE ultimately make the choice...
as i lay dying is christian and this is one of their most difficult albums to understand but once you understand that christianity is not a religion (its a relationship with God)...
as i lay dying is christian and this is one of their most difficult albums to understand but once you understand that christianity is not a religion (its a relationship with God) then all the pieces fall together and everything makes sense.... as brooke reeves of impending doom (another christian band) says "i hate religion i dont need a cult" and "we will demolish this religion you have made" (quoted from children of wrath and more than conquerors) ultimately religion is a man-made thing trying to resemble the relationship between man and God (again true belief in God and His Son Jesus Christ is NOT religion but a RELATIONSHIP)
Guyya, I don't believe those were his intentions at all. I believe by saying "while religion tries to blame what we cannot see, I accept that part of the problem is me"
Is religion tries to create imaginary scape goats in denial that us humans are mostly the problem. We create such conflict, murder, wars, pollution, but its easy to blind ourselves believing that it's not our fault, we're "influenced" by a superior evil.
Guyya, I don't believe those were his intentions at all. I believe by saying "while religion tries to blame what we cannot see, I accept that part of the problem is me"
Is religion tries to create imaginary scape goats in denial that us humans are mostly the problem. We create such conflict, murder, wars, pollution, but its easy to blind ourselves believing that it's not our fault, we're "influenced" by a superior evil.
Also, I want to know where exactly you came up with this statement.
"Then he ultimately denies religious views by saying that there is nothing sacred in every human being believing in only that which he wants to believe in but that religion doesn't leave him any choice by having so many contradictions."
I don't see anything that implies that in these lyrics.
Also, I want to know where exactly you came up with this statement.
"Then he ultimately denies religious views by saying that there is nothing sacred in every human being believing in only that which he wants to believe in but that religion doesn't leave him any choice by having so many contradictions."
I don't see anything that implies that in these lyrics.
No idea if the band members intended the album to sound like a Nile album, but it does. Nevermind the heaviness the lyrics all atheistic are everything you'd never guess you'd find on a christian album. That said, I never knew As I Lay Dying was a christian band, or at least that all its members are christians. However, most lyrics on this album really are anti religion and anti God. Though I'm sure most christians would like to interpret it otherwise, not a single person I've shown the lyrics to that didn't know the members are christians thought it was pro religion, on the contrary they thought it was anti religion. Even after I've said that they are christians they thought the album to be anti religion. If that is what the band wanted to say and achieve, job well done since the lyrics are really great and there are some great memorable quotes here and there, if not then I have to say this is the biggest failure in the history of literature and music since the band then achieved the complete opposite of what they wanted to achieve. As off said, you can only interpret so much as pro religion then you stumble against a wall that simply doesn't allow for such interpretation any more. All of the songs on the album, especially this one show why:
What is the plague mentioned here? Religion! They even say that religion blames what we cannot see (Lucifer) and that he doesn't abide by such foolish notions, he knows man is the true devil. Then he ultimately denies religious views by saying that there is nothing sacred in every human being believing in only that which he wants to believe in but that religion doesn't leave him any choice by having so many contradictions. The blind guide replacing divine eyes could be only anti religion and not anti God, however...divine eyes could be the eyes of mere men. Authority, subversion, anti God talk right there!
BUT you didnt finish the quote from the song... "while religion tries to blame what we cannot see (demons and the like) i accept that part of the problem is me" meaning that we have a sin nature and that its not always the demons fault we sin because we do that naturally, they jus push us in that direction but WE ultimately make the choice...
BUT you didnt finish the quote from the song... "while religion tries to blame what we cannot see (demons and the like) i accept that part of the problem is me" meaning that we have a sin nature and that its not always the demons fault we sin because we do that naturally, they jus push us in that direction but WE ultimately make the choice...
as i lay dying is christian and this is one of their most difficult albums to understand but once you understand that christianity is not a religion (its a relationship with God)...
as i lay dying is christian and this is one of their most difficult albums to understand but once you understand that christianity is not a religion (its a relationship with God) then all the pieces fall together and everything makes sense.... as brooke reeves of impending doom (another christian band) says "i hate religion i dont need a cult" and "we will demolish this religion you have made" (quoted from children of wrath and more than conquerors) ultimately religion is a man-made thing trying to resemble the relationship between man and God (again true belief in God and His Son Jesus Christ is NOT religion but a RELATIONSHIP)
Guyya, I don't believe those were his intentions at all. I believe by saying "while religion tries to blame what we cannot see, I accept that part of the problem is me" Is religion tries to create imaginary scape goats in denial that us humans are mostly the problem. We create such conflict, murder, wars, pollution, but its easy to blind ourselves believing that it's not our fault, we're "influenced" by a superior evil.
Guyya, I don't believe those were his intentions at all. I believe by saying "while religion tries to blame what we cannot see, I accept that part of the problem is me" Is religion tries to create imaginary scape goats in denial that us humans are mostly the problem. We create such conflict, murder, wars, pollution, but its easy to blind ourselves believing that it's not our fault, we're "influenced" by a superior evil.
Also, I want to know where exactly you came up with this statement.
"Then he ultimately denies religious views by saying that there is nothing sacred in every human being believing in only that which he wants to believe in but that religion doesn't leave him any choice by having so many contradictions." I don't see anything that implies that in these lyrics.
Also, I want to know where exactly you came up with this statement.
"Then he ultimately denies religious views by saying that there is nothing sacred in every human being believing in only that which he wants to believe in but that religion doesn't leave him any choice by having so many contradictions." I don't see anything that implies that in these lyrics.