Lyric discussion by JulieMarlene 

Tool is amazing and so is this song. I don't look so much at the religion aspect, but more at the relationship part. Either way you look at it, it's great.

Our religion teacher also says that there was only one way to sin and that is if you break a relationsship (to god). In that sense maybe it still can be religiously themed because, paraphrasing what has been posted above, the "holy gift" or whatever is compromised by man's attraction to a religious meritocracy of heaven and hell. It could be like why depend on god when man has the ability to do the work he deems necessary by himself, despite concidering it to be a matter of faith?

@JulieMarlene

Schism is about observing the dual nature of our minds, a cognitive dissonance and being aware of this afflictions various resultant forms of manifestation in our lives. It is a schism of our left and right brain hemispheres causing a split between our sacred male and sacred feminine characteristics, a separation of Yin and Yang, a fracture between logic and intuition, dis-harmony between the analytical and holistic thoughts of our minds.

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