| Type O Negative – Christian Woman Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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(continuation) ...this kind of attraction doesn't happen with some believers. Love is a complicated emotion, given Freudian concepts like Oedipus and Electra complexes (attraction to mother and father), so why couldn't this attraction also be towards a deity? Many religions, particularly ancient ones, believe the gods would regularly have sex with mortals. This song is simply about an age old concept being transposed into Christianity, where it is obviously a very taboo topic, as the controversy over the Da Vinci Code has well illustrated. |
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| Type O Negative – Christian Woman Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I'm a seminary student and think this song is actually rather clever. Peter is writing about something most people would find blasphemous, but with his Catholic upbringing (and current renewal of faith), I'm sure he was aware of concepts such as the Church being the "Bride of Christ", an image that Jesus himself uses in describing the body of believers, and is again used in Revelations. Also, many believers who dedicated their life to celibacy, such as nuns and priests, are essentially "marrying" themselves to God. Many people find Song of Songs (or Song of Solomon), a overtly sexual poetic narrative about the love between a husband and bride to be an allegory describing God's love for his followers. In an interview during the 90's, Peter Steele stated he got the idea for the song from a number of women who had mentioned to him that they thought Jesus Christ "was a babe". So yes, the song may have been written to simply be something twisted to sing about, but the concept Pete is talking about is not entirely alien within the realm of Scripture. Pete is talking a concept that is talked about much in Scripture and the faith and moving it from a "symbolic" marriage to a woman who has an actual physical attraction to God and Christ. Obviously many people would not openly talk about this subject, but who is to say that this |
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