The Ocean "Anthropocentric"

I know the last Anti-Religion Radio song I posted (Ptolemy Was Wrong) was also The Ocean, but their two albums "Anthropocentric" and "Heliocentric" are too good to not promote. If you like prog metal, philosophy and history you should check them out. All two you of you that might like prog metal...

(the video kind of cuts out a tad early, but it's only a few seconds)

via Aenema8427

"Christianity came into existence in order to lighten the heart; but now it has first to burden the heart so as afterwards to be able to lighten it. Consequently it shall perish"

[Friedrich Nietzsche]

As the symbols of the metaphysics of the hangman are taken off the walls of our living rooms

Humanity emancipates

Christ statues fall and die of age

Just like us: in/organic decay

The myths of the martyrs have waned

No longer do we mourn their loss

Their children dance and play their games

In the shadow of the great old white cross

Wealth heals all wounds and alleviates any kind of pain

The shroud of collective oblivion coats any individual scars

The widows of the skepticals have passed away before they could retaliate

And those who baptized the world with the sword have long been buried

And have not arisen from their graves

The guardians of righteousness have lost their immaculity

The rise of the enlightenment has defeated Christianity

But its legacy of submissiveness prevails in many brave man's heart and soul:

The saddening conception that humanity cannot choose its own destiny

With our lives based on the hope for salvation

The humanist paradigm is nothing but a charade

Condemned to inertia: a passive race

We wait and contemplate

And even in these days and age some people still believe

That Earth is at the center of God's own universe

And that man was made the 7th day, evolution is a myth

And that even bones of ancient creatures are no evidence of the fact that we are not the end of the chain

And they won't leave their ship

That is sinking

They refuse to leave their ship

And while they spoke of grace and love, forgiveness from above

They nailed thousands of non-believers to their crude symbol of love

The myth that man is the crown of God's creation

Breeds the excuse to deplete the Earth today

The myth that man is the crown of God's creation

Supports our present anthropocentric misconception