This is the latest installment in the Songs of Sacrilege series, which I would like readers to help me with. If you know of a song that is irreverent toward religion, makes fun of religion, pokes fun at sincerely held religious beliefs, or challenges the firmly held religious beliefs of others, please send me an email.
Today’s Song of Sacrilege is Hallelujah by Black Veil Brides.
Lyrics
They worship the screen, the digital shrine
Demanding purity while rotting inside
The saints are all sinners with halos for show
The sins are forgotten the moment you let go
I pray for my failure, I beg for my blood
But heaven stays silent, the gates remain shut
Hallelujah, my soul
Been crucified for letting go
Hallelujah, I know
Some day you’ll praise what you hate
And suffer exemplary
They mark the forgotten, they spit on the weak
Brave new saviors tell you just how to think
They worship a screen, a digital shrine
Demanding purity while rotting inside, but saints always sin
Hallelujah, my soul
Been crucified for letting go
Hallelujah, I know
Some day you’ll praise what you hate
And suffer exemplary
I was the outcast, the ghost of my muse
The artist who’s buried beneath the accused
Now I’m a fire they’ll never contain
Hallelujah for my soul
Hallelujah, just let go
Hallelujah, praise the son
Hallelujah, broken one
Hallelujah, my soul
Been crucified for letting go
Hallelujah, I know
Some day you’ll praise what you hate
And suffer exemplary
Hallelujah for my soul
Hallelujah, just let go
Hallelujah, praise the son
Hallelujah, broken one
Bruce Gerencser, 68, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 47 years. He and his wife have six grown children and sixteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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