Religion Means Nothing if You're Still a Jerk.

By Curtis Childs

"A life of religious devotion without kindness is not a spiritual life."

- Emanuel Swedenborg

The lyrics to the video Religion Means Nothing if You're Still a Jerk

Lyrics:

Peace, please believe, that there's a lot of human need

And a lot of hungry bellies that could do without human greed
And a lot of people packing churches looking for a seed

hoping for a higher love to patch up where we all bleed

they're there to learn, it's a perfect opportunity to say

hey we're all God's children and pump love and aid into the community
but what they get is politics, us and them, and judgement of the sick
and then we use God to hit each other, like God's some kind of stick

religion means nothing if you've got it, but you're still a jerk
for me, you, and the planet, buddy it doesn't work

religion means nothing if you've got it, but you're still a jerk
for me you and the planet, buddy it doesn't work

Exhibit A: human ego, selfishness, and it strives to subjugate, manipulate, and

criticize other people and their lives
it's got territory in each of us and it's looking to rule and if it's in charge,

religious concepts are just another tool
the way religions go to war, is the way countries go to war
it's the way people go to war, for whatever they want a war for
the mentality and the method here are all the same, isn't that odd?
it's cause it's the ego driving all of it, the religious covering is just a facade

religion means nothing if you've got it, but you're still a jerk
for me, you, and the planet, buddy it doesn't work

religion means nothing if you've got it, but you're still a jerk
for me you and the planet, buddy it doesn't work

you took faith over love, and that sticking to your interpretation of the plan
was higher on God's priority list than the agony of your fellow man
why's there so much anti-religion stuff on the message boards,
cause there's a lot of really mean people out there saying "I know the Lord"
you say belonging to a club is the way, but love is the way
it's not a ritual you do, it's not a prayer that you say

the world has open hands, looking to you for wisdom, but they find none
let me remind you in a few lines, just how far you've fallen from
you were meant to tell us:
that there is meaning in experience, an antidote for the cold
healing from our flaws, marriage of body and soul, a higher purpose,

a message in the weather,
and a divine protector who can string these hearts and moments together
and how love in the eyes holds the potential, and eternity
the still small voice say take, come and learn from me and

yes, you'll see them in a while again, they were never just the flesh
and I'll hold and you’ll smile again, as we watch the death of death
and kindness is not a weakness, it's the holy core of life
blood and competition too will pass, as epiphanies grow from strife
and you were no accident, you are precious, and you'll be fine
in short, the most beautiful things that you can tell a conscious mind
it's not about doctrinal boxes or what you say or how you appear
but this: when you walk in do people say "oh thank God you're here"

religion means nothing if you've got it, but you're still a jerk
for me, you, and the planet, buddy it doesn't work
religion means nothing if you've got it, but you're still a jerk
for me you and the planet, buddy it doesn't work