A few days ago I was watching to some Creation vs Evolution debate on TV, and then later that night I listened to this song. While I was listening, I realised that the lyrics fit the whole religious debate pretty well. Naturally, this may or may not be Serj's intentional meaning, but it my interpretation and feels right to me. Allow me to explain:
The song starts off pretty straight-forward. Theocracy, according to Wikipedia, is basically a government run in the name of some devine entity, like God. So are we just some fantasy, made up by and governed by some god?
No. We are far from holy - that is, we weren't created by a god. Instead we should believe in the wholeness of one, that is - in ourselves. That's what we are, essentially: We are living entities, and as such we are one, but not the creations of a god.
We lost the key of sight. We're so blinded by our religion that we're just being plain ignorant. We aren't loved by a god, far from it. He doesn't exist.
So what do we do when we're blinded by our religion? We fight wars, we kill, we debate, we go to great lenghts to destroy the opposition to defend our mythical creatures, or should I say: our vampires? We're bombing people (literally and metaphorically) for their ignorance of having the "wrong religion", and defeating their insolence. Is it going too far? I believe so.
Then what if a religious fanatic dies and realizes that the life that he lived for what he believed was a waste of time? What if there is no afterlife? Then we're clearly wasting our time doing something that doesn't matter. So what does it all boil down to? We're just going forward and backwards, we live, we breathe, we see, we cry and finally we die. The end.
Dude you have it all wrong Serj Tankian does not mean anything by that, he beleives in god he is armenian, he is Christian. "we are far from holy" thats pretty straight forward, we have lost our sight we think we are beleiving in god but we are just failing. And we certainly do not debate and declare wars because of religion or "false Religion" maybe you pulled that out of your ass because President Bush liked to think that God was his messenger or some bull shit, hes just a power hungry, tyrant who thinks he has a righteous...
Dude you have it all wrong Serj Tankian does not mean anything by that, he beleives in god he is armenian, he is Christian. "we are far from holy" thats pretty straight forward, we have lost our sight we think we are beleiving in god but we are just failing. And we certainly do not debate and declare wars because of religion or "false Religion" maybe you pulled that out of your ass because President Bush liked to think that God was his messenger or some bull shit, hes just a power hungry, tyrant who thinks he has a righteous cause to sacrifice lives.
“My religion is the same as the trees out there. It's the same inspiration. Whatever moves them, moves me. I believe that we're animals. I know we are because we die and we eat and we ****.” - Serj Tankian
“My religion is the same as the trees out there. It's the same inspiration. Whatever moves them, moves me. I believe that we're animals. I know we are because we die and we eat and we ****.” - Serj Tankian
A few days ago I was watching to some Creation vs Evolution debate on TV, and then later that night I listened to this song. While I was listening, I realised that the lyrics fit the whole religious debate pretty well. Naturally, this may or may not be Serj's intentional meaning, but it my interpretation and feels right to me. Allow me to explain:
The song starts off pretty straight-forward. Theocracy, according to Wikipedia, is basically a government run in the name of some devine entity, like God. So are we just some fantasy, made up by and governed by some god?
No. We are far from holy - that is, we weren't created by a god. Instead we should believe in the wholeness of one, that is - in ourselves. That's what we are, essentially: We are living entities, and as such we are one, but not the creations of a god.
We lost the key of sight. We're so blinded by our religion that we're just being plain ignorant. We aren't loved by a god, far from it. He doesn't exist.
So what do we do when we're blinded by our religion? We fight wars, we kill, we debate, we go to great lenghts to destroy the opposition to defend our mythical creatures, or should I say: our vampires? We're bombing people (literally and metaphorically) for their ignorance of having the "wrong religion", and defeating their insolence. Is it going too far? I believe so.
Then what if a religious fanatic dies and realizes that the life that he lived for what he believed was a waste of time? What if there is no afterlife? Then we're clearly wasting our time doing something that doesn't matter. So what does it all boil down to? We're just going forward and backwards, we live, we breathe, we see, we cry and finally we die. The end.
Dude you have it all wrong Serj Tankian does not mean anything by that, he beleives in god he is armenian, he is Christian. "we are far from holy" thats pretty straight forward, we have lost our sight we think we are beleiving in god but we are just failing. And we certainly do not debate and declare wars because of religion or "false Religion" maybe you pulled that out of your ass because President Bush liked to think that God was his messenger or some bull shit, hes just a power hungry, tyrant who thinks he has a righteous...
Dude you have it all wrong Serj Tankian does not mean anything by that, he beleives in god he is armenian, he is Christian. "we are far from holy" thats pretty straight forward, we have lost our sight we think we are beleiving in god but we are just failing. And we certainly do not debate and declare wars because of religion or "false Religion" maybe you pulled that out of your ass because President Bush liked to think that God was his messenger or some bull shit, hes just a power hungry, tyrant who thinks he has a righteous cause to sacrifice lives.
“My religion is the same as the trees out there. It's the same inspiration. Whatever moves them, moves me. I believe that we're animals. I know we are because we die and we eat and we ****.” - Serj Tankian
“My religion is the same as the trees out there. It's the same inspiration. Whatever moves them, moves me. I believe that we're animals. I know we are because we die and we eat and we ****.” - Serj Tankian