Bipolar christianity

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Sonic degeneracy - Vol. I: Cynical humanism

(Full-length, 2024)

Written in march 2017.

Trivia

A fun, scruffy thrashcore song about christianity, and more specifically how the Catholic Church handles its contradictions - since, in order to expand itself in the west, christianity had to embrace and incorporate ancient western culture, leading to a certain "bipolarism" (or "schizophrenia", as the mighty Necrobutcher from Brazil would say) when it comes to various issues: one approach is more rigid and conservative, the other is more "compassionate" and "progressive" if you will, and this tends to attract people from all different political parties, all of them insisting in saying they possess the "definitive" interpretation of God's word. The Church is aware of this, and generally panders to popular sentiment, paying lip service to the most profitable position to hold at a given point in time. When it became clear that an overly traditional pope didn't resonate enough with the general audience, here comes Francis Bergoglio as a desperate attempt to save the day. And since many progressive figures nowadays cite him as an inspiration, this "rebranding" attempt can be considered successful at least to some extent.

Lyrics

Christianity

A religion full of facets

A mishmash of old pagan cults

And eastern mumbo-jumbo

Contradictory

Everyone just cherry-picks

And sells his own interpretation

As definitive

Bigots, reactionaries

Puritans and fascists

Humanitarians, commies

And social justice warriors

BIPOLAR CHRISTIANITY (x 2)

Catholic Church

Just following the trend

Pandering to one side or another

Just to please the masses

People hate the opulent

And bigot Ratzinger

So here's leftist Pope Francis

To harvest new disciples

Liberals, progressives

And LGBTQs

Conservatives, theocons

Even the alt-right

BIPOLAR CHRISTIANITY (x 4)

BIPOLAR CHRISTIANITY (x 2)

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