the day i found out that soldier poet king by the oh hellos was about jesus i got extremely mad because i can't believe they called jesus a soldier. i'm still mad about this. he very famously is not a soldier. like i'm an atheist hindu and i've never read the bible and even i know this. people sustained entire activist movements on the premise that he was not a soldier! he didn't have any swords. i'm going to hunt down the oh hellos in a hunger-games style arena but instead of killing them i'm going to make them explain this to me and then i'm going to make them put a different word in there instead of soldier
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most of their music is pretty christian but i encountered this one first so i had no context and i was like wow, cool fantasy guy! and then i learned this and became immensely disappointed
I just want there to be songs about a cool dude that isn’t a fan song for either Jesus or Critical Role
i need random songs i enjoy as a clueless jew to stop somehow being about jesus
Ohhh so many evangelical songs are about Jesus being a soldier. The less-racist ones frame it in terms of spiritual warfare, fighting the demons on behalf of big daddy god (see the harrowing of hell). The others are more explicitly about Jesus leading his troops (ie missionaries and actual, literal troops) in forcing Christianity on heathen countries. See, Onward Christian Soldiers