The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser

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  • Songs of Sacrilege: Hallelujah by Black Veil Brides

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    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.

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    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, 69, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 48 years. He and his wife have six grown children and thirteen 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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  • Songs of Sacrilege: Shadows Die by Black Veil Brides

    This is the thirty-fourth installment in the Songs of Sacrilege series. This is a series that I would like readers to help me with. If you know of a song that is irreverent towards 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 Shadows Die by Black Veil Brides,an American rock band based in Hollywood, California.

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    Tear down the cross,
    Splinters and shards.
    Remembered this Trojan horse
    Rode to the land we enter.

    We’ll burn away
    And free our fallen brothers
    From shackles made
    Of steel and bones of soldiers.

    Yeah!

    Let shadows die
    So I can feel alive.
    A church of lies
    Can’t tell me what is right.

    Our little victories and desires won’t live on
    Let shadows die
    So I can feel alive, feel alive

    I feel alive, yeah

    In fear and faith
    The candles light our freedom.
    By tainted night we live this war of wisdom.

    The streets are stained
    With blood that ran their kingdom
    And feed the beast that lies beneath our treason.

    Let shadows die
    So I can feel alive.
    A church of lies
    Can’t tell me what is right.

    Our little victories and desires won’t live on.
    Let shadows die
    So I can feel alive, feel alive

    F.E.A.R. round up these rebels
    These deviants, these so-called Wild Ones
    We will litter the streets with their bones
    And annihilate the dangerous and obtuse ideas poisoning your children,
    Endangering your freedom, giving rise to the destruction of the benevolent future we have prepared for you.
    You belong to the shadows, and the shadows are where you will remain safe.
    Do not disobey.

    Let shadows die
    So I can feel alive.
    A church of lies
    Can’t tell me what is right.

    Our little victories and desires won’t live on.
    Let shadows die
    So I can feel alive, feel alive

    (I feel alive)