Fire Or Knife Lyrics

I was brought up in a Christian household, and when I turned 13 I was moved into an extremely religious school as my schooling wasn’t really heading in the right direction where I was. This coupled together created some very deep seeded beliefs which, as I got older, became harder and harder to justify. The whole concept of the bible really confounds me these days, it is extremely inaccurate, there are missing gospels, the gospels themselves were written hundreds of years after the fact, (a fact by the way that we are assuming is real based on the gospels telling us it happened – weird?) and the age old non-Christian argument of “but what about all the rape, incest, murder, violence… etc” is actually a really valid point if you ask me. I was already well on my way to becoming an atheist when we went on the second Drunk and Disorderly tour and our manager left behind his copy of The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins; about two pages in I had firmly decided that I was now an atheist. The more I read, the more I became enraged about my upbringing, not from my Mother, but more so from the school environment and church that I was in for all those years. It’s to the point where I can’t really have a discussion about it yet because I haven’t simmered down enough to do so. I hold a lot of anger towards the church, and Christianity as a whole. It’s a disgusting body of lies that traps youth at their most vulnerable and instills beliefs that just aren’t backed up, anywhere. Relying on ‘faith’ to sometimes loosely, sometimes firmly control the goings on of other people’s lives. I could write quite a bit more about this, but I think I’ve explained the song enough. - Joel Birch