Wow, according to many fan's interpretations here, I feel as though I have totally got this song wrong. To me it was blatantly about Rufus making peace with his atheism. He imagines the god figure as being spiteful, judgmental and destructive, yet Rufus realises its all bravado and he mocks back as if faced with a (hu)man displaying the same weak personality traits. He is done with religion and wakes up to the fact that maintaining any belief in it weakens his self-worth. This song is the moment of realisation that he is a stronger person without religion beating him down for not upholding its ridiculous dogmatic rules. Being gay, he falls outside the hardcore religious clique, but his unrestrained singing and confidence in this song tells of somebody relieved to not fit in with such shallow rules. Rufus with this song, basically had the last word on religious bigotry. He said it all.
Wow, according to many fan's interpretations here, I feel as though I have totally got this song wrong. To me it was blatantly about Rufus making peace with his atheism. He imagines the god figure as being spiteful, judgmental and destructive, yet Rufus realises its all bravado and he mocks back as if faced with a (hu)man displaying the same weak personality traits. He is done with religion and wakes up to the fact that maintaining any belief in it weakens his self-worth. This song is the moment of realisation that he is a stronger person without religion beating him down for not upholding its ridiculous dogmatic rules. Being gay, he falls outside the hardcore religious clique, but his unrestrained singing and confidence in this song tells of somebody relieved to not fit in with such shallow rules. Rufus with this song, basically had the last word on religious bigotry. He said it all.