The Beautiful People Lyrics

Lyric discussion by JohnnyRader 

Cover art for The Beautiful People lyrics by Marilyn Manson

Alot of people are thinking the opposite but I think this IS about Christianity. Like on one line he says You Can't See The Forest For The Tree's And You Can't Smell Your Own Shit On Yours Knees Is meaning that how Christians don't even understand what they are worshiping and the second line is meaning how they don't understand when on their knees aka praying. There is another line that points directly to Christians. "It's all relative to the size of your steeple" A steeple is part of a temple and the line means Christians always want to make their steeple bigger because they think God will like it instead of helping other people which the Bible and the God they worship tells them to do. Christians are pretty dumb MM is basically saying.

Song Meaning

Yes but many Christians CLAIM to be Christians but don't know the first thing about it.

excatly jimdalli, and thats the said thing. they make us who love people and God look bad. judge not, and harm not. i love manson, and that he calls out the fakes

@JohnnyRader Not sure of Manson's intent, but I think the song can be interpreted in a much broader sense. I have developed a bit of a misanthropic perspective, so I tend to interpret these lyrics in a way that they could apply to any group of self righteous people.

As of late, I think that this song applies to what the leftists have become. Just another group of fools for me to abandon. They create echo chambers (can't smell their own shit). The size of the steeple is just the number of people they have amassed, using...