I may be wrong on this, but what I get from the lyrics is, the tendency of religious extremism throughout the years to claim calamity and disaster as fury from an angry god. e.g. "The fundamentalist Christian god's destruction of the decadence and depravity of New Orleans" as some would say. Or as Pat Robertson would have it, Haiti's devastation due to some voodoo pact with the devil in exchange for independence from the French.
Either way, it seems decidedly evil to me to parade the shattered lives of countless people as a clarion call for whatever it is that you're pushing.
I think you're correct...religious people would look at the rain and assume that it is caused by "god" as some sort of payback for bad things that humans have done, but Greg looks at it in a scientific way..."It's just rain".
I think you're correct...religious people would look at the rain and assume that it is caused by "god" as some sort of payback for bad things that humans have done, but Greg looks at it in a scientific way..."It's just rain".
@jtpow However he then turns it in the last verse:
O Lord have mercy on a humble man
Lost in the wilderness without a guiding hand
@jtpow However he then turns it in the last verse:
O Lord have mercy on a humble man
Lost in the wilderness without a guiding hand
Calling on deity to help him i his time of fear and lostness.
Calling on deity to help him i his time of fear and lostness.
As a Christian I feel like my children are being bombarded with fear messages from Non theistic media and science. Waters are rising and will drown cities, heat is increasing owing to global warming making parts of the world unliveable, eco systems are being destroyed and animals species exterminated. There is war, extremism, lack of jobs, hunger and devastation from brexit...
As a Christian I feel like my children are being bombarded with fear messages from Non theistic media and science. Waters are rising and will drown cities, heat is increasing owing to global warming making parts of the world unliveable, eco systems are being destroyed and animals species exterminated. There is war, extremism, lack of jobs, hunger and devastation from brexit etc. That's a shitty message our children are getting. Devastation and a zombie apocalypses type future.A return to the dark ages or complete extermination .Meteors, sun burst etc. its a pretty gloomy out look
In the story of Noah God gives the rainbow as a sign the world will never drown under a flood again - so asking for mercy from God is to ask for help and hope in a lost world.
O Lord have mercy on our children
Lost in the wilderness without a guiding hand
I may be wrong on this, but what I get from the lyrics is, the tendency of religious extremism throughout the years to claim calamity and disaster as fury from an angry god. e.g. "The fundamentalist Christian god's destruction of the decadence and depravity of New Orleans" as some would say. Or as Pat Robertson would have it, Haiti's devastation due to some voodoo pact with the devil in exchange for independence from the French.
Either way, it seems decidedly evil to me to parade the shattered lives of countless people as a clarion call for whatever it is that you're pushing.
I think you're correct...religious people would look at the rain and assume that it is caused by "god" as some sort of payback for bad things that humans have done, but Greg looks at it in a scientific way..."It's just rain".
I think you're correct...religious people would look at the rain and assume that it is caused by "god" as some sort of payback for bad things that humans have done, but Greg looks at it in a scientific way..."It's just rain".
@jtpow However he then turns it in the last verse: O Lord have mercy on a humble man Lost in the wilderness without a guiding hand
@jtpow However he then turns it in the last verse: O Lord have mercy on a humble man Lost in the wilderness without a guiding hand
Calling on deity to help him i his time of fear and lostness.
Calling on deity to help him i his time of fear and lostness.
As a Christian I feel like my children are being bombarded with fear messages from Non theistic media and science. Waters are rising and will drown cities, heat is increasing owing to global warming making parts of the world unliveable, eco systems are being destroyed and animals species exterminated. There is war, extremism, lack of jobs, hunger and devastation from brexit...
As a Christian I feel like my children are being bombarded with fear messages from Non theistic media and science. Waters are rising and will drown cities, heat is increasing owing to global warming making parts of the world unliveable, eco systems are being destroyed and animals species exterminated. There is war, extremism, lack of jobs, hunger and devastation from brexit etc. That's a shitty message our children are getting. Devastation and a zombie apocalypses type future.A return to the dark ages or complete extermination .Meteors, sun burst etc. its a pretty gloomy out look
In the story of Noah God gives the rainbow as a sign the world will never drown under a flood again - so asking for mercy from God is to ask for help and hope in a lost world.
O Lord have mercy on our children
Lost in the wilderness without a guiding hand