“Take Me To Church”

I found myself humming this song…the melody caught my ear and the voice – hypnotic…but it had me really thinking it was something it’s not. I watched the video only to be confused at the scene of it all. Have you see it? Has the tune caught your ear?
“Take Me To Church”

Hozier – Take Me To Church [link]
Quite catchy…huh?
What’s sad about this song is that it’s as offensive as Marilyn Manson….for an example. But, no one notices how evil it is. Young people are curious about sex! These lyrics trade faith as a sexual license to worship sex. Mocking Christians and their faith has become the norm! Satan wants people to love the flesh and hate the spirit.

In an interview with New York Magazine in March 2014, the artist Hozier states:
‘Take Me to Church’ is essentially about sex, but it’s a tongue-in-cheek attack at organizations that would… undermine humanity by successfully teaching shame about sexual orientation — that it is sinful, or that it offends God… But it’s not an attack on faith… it’s an assertion of self, reclaiming humanity back for something that is the most natural and worthwhile.
Irish songwriter Hozier released the video for his gospel-inspired epic, “Take Me to Church,” a cavernous song that uses love and ecstasy as a religious metaphor. This lyrics expressed his frustration with organized religion — and particularly the Catholic Church’s history of mistreating gays and covering up child sexual abuse. He wrote it in an effort to raise awareness and support for gay marriage following Russia’s criminalization of homosexuality.
Hozier — born Andrew Hozier-Byrne…believes man’s struggle is to find his own identity in an oppressive culture of church, in an age influenced heavily by the Catholic church and a nationalism that he just wants to be free of. Ironically, he believes the song is NOT an attack on faith…seriously? Hozier has been labelled an atheist by the press, but he says that’s not the case.
Quote: “We love the sinner, but we hate the sin.” It’s a backhanded way of telling someone to be ashamed of who they are and what they do.

He sang with Anúna which is an Irish choral group. In 1987 Dublin composer Michael McGlynn founded An Uaithne, a name which describes the three ancient types of Celtic music, Suantraí (lullaby), Geantraí (happy song) and Goltraí (lament).

In June 2012 Anúna released their new album Illumination, a fifteen track CD and in May featured on the soundtrack to the video game Diablo III. Blizzard Entertainment’s audio director, Russell Brower says “Working somewhat against conventional expectations, Hell is a beautiful and seductive sound, provided by Dublin’s uniquely astounding choral group ANÚNA”.

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Frankly, I will let you decide what you think, but I believe these kinds of issues are brought forward to shape young minds. Our youth are vulnerable and music can influence their beliefs. If you ask a person who is ‘rethinking’ their sexual status and future of their relationships, you will most likely find either abuse or some event which has tainted their beliefs.
Now, the lyrics to this song is really strange…
My lover’s got humour
She’s the giggle at a funeral
Knows everybody’s disapproval
I should’ve worshipped her sooner

If the heavens ever did speak
She’s the last true mouthpiece
Every Sunday’s getting more bleak
A fresh poison each week

“We were born sick,” you heard them say it

My church offers no absolutes
She tells me, “Worship in the bedroom.”
The only heaven I’ll be sent to
Is when I’m alone with you

I was born sick
But I love it
Command me to be well
Aaay. Amen. Amen. Amen.

Take me to church
I’ll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I’ll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life

If I’m a pagan of the good times
My lover’s the sunlight
To keep the Goddess on my side
She demands a sacrifice

Drain the whole sea
Get something shiny
Something meaty for the main course
That’s a fine-looking high horse
What you got in the stable?
We’ve a lot of starving faithful

That looks tasty
That looks plenty
This is hungry work

Take me to church
I’ll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I’ll tell you my sins so you can sharpen your knife
Offer me my deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life

No Masters or Kings
When the Ritual begins
There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin

In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene
Only then I am human
Only then I am clean
Ooh oh. Amen. Amen. Amen.

Take me to church
I’ll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I’ll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life
END

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I believe GOD intended marriage to be a holy union between man and woman. And whenever sexual acts take place outside of this marriage, it involves pain and conflict…ultimately. This is a poison which society is now swimming/living in. Damaged marriages contain people who would cheat rather than repair what is damaged. “Sex” does not actually require commitment, and this is why so many young people don’t mature into loving relationships (lasting marriages), but once you’ve had sex with someone…what people don’t realize is that there is a bond, a tie…a union. These ties (when abused) can become a portal for demonic spirits to enter.

The lyrics to this song is a true testament of social dysfunction, ….how the elite are guiding our youth into paths of sin.

There is no doubt that religion is tainted by man. GOD did not intend on man having organized religions…but to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, as The Only Path to HIM!