It's clear that this song is about one freakin bloody satanic ritual. But it seems also to have a hidden rhetoric purpose as well. It seems that Strnad makes a pretty clear connection to the sacrifice to Jesus. He sets up a scenario where a bunch of dudes are killing their victims to appeal to a malicious being, with "black intentions crystal clear". Yet the listener will also make the connection that Jesus was tortured and killed to appeal to God. So in this setting with a few things changed up, we see something that is in the christian context widely accepted as a thing of beauty to be just horrifying torture to appeal to a bloodthirsty deity.
It's clear that this song is about one freakin bloody satanic ritual. But it seems also to have a hidden rhetoric purpose as well. It seems that Strnad makes a pretty clear connection to the sacrifice to Jesus. He sets up a scenario where a bunch of dudes are killing their victims to appeal to a malicious being, with "black intentions crystal clear". Yet the listener will also make the connection that Jesus was tortured and killed to appeal to God. So in this setting with a few things changed up, we see something that is in the christian context widely accepted as a thing of beauty to be just horrifying torture to appeal to a bloodthirsty deity.