GOD KICKS WITH BOTH FEET AND KEEPS HIS SHOES CLEAN

This is a lyric from a Therapy? song off of the album "suicide pact: you first". Not a stellar recording, compared to other Therapy? releases. But it is reflective of songs about god and religion by ( what I assume ) are secular writers, or religiously conflicted writers. You got your church hymns and you got your "contemporary christian" stuff. Anybody who has cable has seen the adverts for " songs of inspiration " with the worshipping crowd swaying in the devine power of shitty pop music that has the word of god infused into it. All of them singing along in a trance like state, waiting for the Kool-aid.
I was all prepared to rail on about this and make some juicy allegations regarding Amy Grant, but a comment from yesterdays post kind of derailed that.
The commenter asked "What do you say Jesus Christ is" ? Good question.
Who was this Jesus dude anyway? Lemme see, He had long hair and a beard and wore sandals...Jesus was a hippy! He travelled around espousing love and brotherhood and tolerance...definitely a hippy. He was derided and hated and ultimately betrayed by people that hated hippies. And somewhere along the line, the teachings of this hippy were adopted as gospel ( kind of similar to the canonization of Hendrix as a guitar god, but come on, I can play his riffs, so was he really that fucking great?) and became the default philosophy for everyone in the world.
All kinds of people have all kinds of interpretations of who/what this jesus guy was/is. I remember a guy with long hair and a beard in sandals telling us to love each other who got fucked around by the power system at the time. His philosophies were manipulated and used to the advantage of the powerbase...sound familiar?
Yeah...those guys.