PRESS RELEASE:
Lake of Ten Thousand Flames
by Crestfallen
Crestfallen says:
"Christianity's complicity in violence as an exclusive monotheistic religion is widely prevalent in the deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament. Whether as a singular “God” against the “others" or as a totality and the only “true God", Christianity abhors, reviles, rejects and ejects whatever it defines as outside its compass.
In my youngest years I went to Catholic school, and as a left-handed child I was beaten and chastised daily by the nuns who "taught" us the evils of the left-hand path. Any "faith" that would condone the beating and rejection of a child for their unchosen hand dominance, gender identity or sexual preference is one to be greatly feared and abandoned.
The Christian faith is inherently violent and hedges itsell upon rigid terms to control through punishment, fear and damnation. This composition is dedicated to demonstrating the violence veiled in beauty of Christianity, and the true hidden brutalities of the faith and its writings."
Lyrics:
"Behold, I will bring a great plague
On your people, on your children
On your wives, and all your possessions
Severe sickness and disease
Hour by hour, day by day
Week by week, year by year
Bathed in fire
For I will walk contrary to you in fury
And I myself will discipline you sevenfold
You shall eat the flesh of your sons
And the flesh of your daughters
Yes you shall eat the flesh of your sons
And the flesh of your daughters
And burn
I will put an end to the arrogance
Of the haughty
And their infants will be dashed to pieces
Before their eyes
Their houses will be looted
And their wives violated
And if ye will not for all of this
Hearken unto me
But walk contrary unto me
Then I will walk contrary
Unto you also in fury
And I, even I will chastise you
Seven times for your sins
But as for the cowardly
As for the faithless and detestable
Their portion will be in
The lake that burns with fire and with sulfur
Which is the second death
They shall fall by the sword
Their little ones dashed in pieces
And their pregnant ripped open
Yes, they shall fall by the sword
Their little ones dashed in pieces
And their pregnant ripped open"
*Lyrics near verbatim to passages from the deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament.
released December 24, 2023
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