I absolutely love music. I also am extremely analytical, so when a song sticks with me, I like to analyze it and determine why it’s staying with me.

A long time ago, I fell in love with the song Everybody’s Fool by Evanescence, for a different reason…those times have long since past…and now it’s back and for a completely different reason.

The CHURCH…is Everybody’s Fool.

I present to you for you to examine:

Everybody’s Fool by Evanescence (with my commentary italicized)

Perfect by nature, icons of self-indulgence
Just what we all need
More lies about a world

(LIES. Sadly, the Church has lost it’s credibility and what’s sad is it really isn’t the Church’s fault, it’s the leaders within the church…myself included and that’s why I’m on such a journey right now to fix what I’ve screwed up. I’m tarnished the image of the Church. I’ve made the snide comments from non-believers true and it sucks…because I have no idea where to begin, other than to start demonstrating the grace of a God who extended more mercy to me than was deserved to those who’ve decided the church, and God has long since deserted and given up on them)

That never was and never will be
Have you no shame, don’t you see me?
You know you’ve got everybody fooled.

(Monday through Saturday we’ve convinced you that we’re all just a bunch of gay hating, hypocritical, love your neighbor, unless they’re completely different than you conservative republicans who believe that the choice isn’t up to you. We’ve convinced you that your lifestyle is wrong. We’ve made you uncomfortable with who you are. We’ve told you that you’re going to hell because you smoke, or you drink, or you speed {interesting piece of worthless statistics for you…87% of all folks who are pulled over for speeding consider themselves a Christian in one form or another}. Then Sunday comes around…and we’ve got everybody fooled. All of the sudden we’re praying for you, we’re inviting you over for supper, and we’re trying to save you…until Monday…when we tell you you’re goin to Hell.)

Look here she comes now
Bow down and stare in wonder.
Oh, how we love you
No flaws when you’re pretending
But now I know she

(Flawless…when we’re pretending…because truthfully…we’re far from it.)

Never was and never will be
You don’t know how you betrayed me
And somehow you’ve got everybody fooled.

(Betrayed, that’s what most of the “unsaved,” “hell bound,” non-Christians feel like. And you want to know why? BECAUSE MOST OF THEM GREW UP IN A CHURCH AND MADE A MISTAKE AND WERE DISFRANCHISED BY THE GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT TOLD THEM GOD LOVED THEM AND SO DID THEY!! WHAT’S EVEN MORE SAD IS THAT MOST OF US WILL NEVER KNOW WHAT WE DID TO YOU. And what’s sadder is there are some of us, who probably don’t care.)

Without the mask
Where will you hide?
Can’t find yourself,
Lost in your lies

I know the truth now
I know who you are
And I don’t love you anymore

(But…there’s a revolution taking place. Folks are starting to realize…wait a minute, they {the church} might have been wronged. They’re unmasking the hypocrisy, and the ingeniousness and they’re standing up for a GRACEFUL, LOVING God who cares about them more than they can comprehend. And the church…oh yeah…the church is freaking out. Pretty soon, there will be no where to hide. They don’t love the church that was…but are learning to love the church that is.)

Never was and never will be
You don’t know how you betrayed me
And somehow you’ve got everybody fooled.

Never was and never will be
Not for real that you can save me
And somehow now you’re everybody’s fool.

(The revolution is slow, and as a result the fooling and the pulling of wool over the eyes will continue. I want to be, and will be part of the church that is. The church that is taking a stand.
Loving our neighbors, demonstrating the grace and love of a God that is freakin out of this world. Talking to a God that is not only a king, but our father, and talkin to Him like He is our dad, and not some unattainable, non-listening fake entity. The lies stop here, the betrayal ends. God is real. His word is REAL. It’s not a tool for hatred, but a book of LOVE. STOP SCREWING IT UP.)

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I have my critics…as a matter of fact I received a very degrading anonymous e-mail reply to my last post. I thought about posting it and bashing the individual and telling him or her where they were wrong. Even breaking out with some original Hebrew translations, and throwing them for a complete whirl. But I didn’t…and I won’t. One, because it gives them the satisfaction they are desiring. They’re part of the betrayers. Plus I want them to understand that God loves them to stinkin death. He wants them to grow and stop taking everything they’ve heard at face value, and figure out what the heck they believe about Him.

For my Critics…all of you…I love you. I am not bitter, I do not hate the church. I have stickers on my car that say “Religion Kills,” religion has been killing for thousands of years…and religion is killing today…it’s killing churches everywhere. It’s killing the souls of twenty-somethings who grow up in a church youth group and then graduate high school and are told the church has nothing for them. It’s killing families who have a member of the family come out of the closet. RELIGION KILLS EVERYDAY. We have to remember, Christians…that JESUS IS THE SAVIOR…NOT OUR RELIGION (CHRISTIANITY).

Carpe Diem

P.S. It is completely ok to dedicate a song written by a non-Christian band, to the Church…especially this one.

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