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yrgirlkv
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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

folly
@folly

my first instinct on this point is always jesus' Little Commission, or:

which has what i think of as a kind of leninist ring to it — our revolutionary movement can happen along any vector, and its opponents may likewise sit upon any vector, any place where the revolution is compromised or opposed. but looking at permutations of Jesus as Guy With A Sword gets weirder (as most things do) if you engage with the book of Revelation, which I try not to do for a bunch of reasons both obvious and metacontextual. There we get:

and

which all together have me asking: is jesus christ Orochimaru?

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yrgirlkv
@yrgirlkv

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

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Minahoneybat
@Minahoneybat

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

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kingcrackers
@kingcrackers

i think there's a whole poetic license thing about being a soldier, but mostly i just want to point out one lyric: "there will come a ruler / whose brow is laid in thorn / smeared with oil like david's boy / oh lei oh lai oh lord"

smeared with what

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folly
@folly

i don't know how much you're joking, but this is pretty common imagery! oil + david's boy gets us three things in common: david, anointed as king, and his purported son solomon, also anointed with oil, and christ, born "in the town of bethlehem" (to make him david's boy), who gets oil thrice: first in the gifts of the magi (the myrrh of gold, frankincense, and myrrh), then later, right before his sacrifice, and a third potential time as the song projects a christ anointed king in a post-milleniar age. It is a wild thing to say, but if you're doing a song about a second or third coming of christ it's only one of many

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