On Feb 16, 2007, at 8:56 PM, Alex Stanley wrote:
"After watching Mel Gibson's harrowing 2004 film The Passion of the
Christ I immediately wrote three songs. This was one of them. It is
not so much a rail against the principles of justice through the ages,
but a challenge to the vanity of the men who need to put on some kind
of ridiculous outfit in order to pass sentence on one of their peers.
It is the idea that men need dress up in order to represent God that
appalls me. If I wanted to be as insane as to attempt to represent God
I'd just go ahead and do it, I wouldn't dress up like a drag-queen."
Wow.
Thanks Alex. Great find.
I couldn't help but think, after seeing "the Concert for 9/11" (or
whatever it was called)--and the Who's up-front presence--that that
might have had something to do with it.
This answers that question.
