It's obviously very religious, about how weakened feet will use religion as base to step on as guide for their life. It might be about christianity, since that's by far the most common religion in Finland, where the band comes from, which would fit my interpretation, since this religion is responsible for a lot murder, wars and burning people to death ("holy flames that craved the flesh"). Also it contains a "dead man", i.e. Jesus, though that might just as well be Buddha, Abraham, Moses, Muhammad or Joseph Smith. The protagonist renounces this faith ("no never again"), and calls it "strong", yet "blind".
Still i'm not sure who "the weaker" is. It says his/her mind is dark and he/she has pride in their eyes. It could represent an extreme kind of rejection of this faith, where the protagonist plans to kill the believers. The line "The weaker must die" could be said by the protagonist, while the female voice comments on that. The darkness is then evil intentions of killing ("must die"), also pride perhaps to have freed him/herself from the religion.
On the other hand it might also be the congregation that calls the protagonist "the weaker", since for believers, it is common to think of non-believers as people that are not strong enough, or that don't have the will to believe. As history shows, they were often convinced that such people were to be taken action against, which can include murder. They might then call the atheism of the protagonist "dark [...] mind".
In my view, the first version seems more likely. It would also make sense in a the way that it shows how a person, confronted with crimes and misdeed of believers of a certain faith (or faiths in general?), can get violent him/herself against those people. Then the message of the song would be to recognise this and be scared away, i.e. take advantage of the tool of reason over blind faith and not use violence but arguments. The religions, that are accused here, apparently are not able to arrive at such a level.
It's obviously very religious, about how weakened feet will use religion as base to step on as guide for their life. It might be about christianity, since that's by far the most common religion in Finland, where the band comes from, which would fit my interpretation, since this religion is responsible for a lot murder, wars and burning people to death ("holy flames that craved the flesh"). Also it contains a "dead man", i.e. Jesus, though that might just as well be Buddha, Abraham, Moses, Muhammad or Joseph Smith. The protagonist renounces this faith ("no never again"), and calls it "strong", yet "blind".
Still i'm not sure who "the weaker" is. It says his/her mind is dark and he/she has pride in their eyes. It could represent an extreme kind of rejection of this faith, where the protagonist plans to kill the believers. The line "The weaker must die" could be said by the protagonist, while the female voice comments on that. The darkness is then evil intentions of killing ("must die"), also pride perhaps to have freed him/herself from the religion. On the other hand it might also be the congregation that calls the protagonist "the weaker", since for believers, it is common to think of non-believers as people that are not strong enough, or that don't have the will to believe. As history shows, they were often convinced that such people were to be taken action against, which can include murder. They might then call the atheism of the protagonist "dark [...] mind".
In my view, the first version seems more likely. It would also make sense in a the way that it shows how a person, confronted with crimes and misdeed of believers of a certain faith (or faiths in general?), can get violent him/herself against those people. Then the message of the song would be to recognise this and be scared away, i.e. take advantage of the tool of reason over blind faith and not use violence but arguments. The religions, that are accused here, apparently are not able to arrive at such a level.
What do you think?