Moria- Unholy Sessions

Moria- Unholy Sessions lyrical meanings

(I wrote this quickly and didn't revise it much, so im almost certain there are spelling errors and probably some run on sentences, but who cares, this isn't english class haha)

Yes the subject of these lyrics is religion. These explanations aren't to start a debate. I don't care if you're religious or believe in God or anything. I respect people for their decisions, but I believe everyone should live an informed life. This is my expression and my belief.

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
-Socrates
That quote is the starting point for these lyrics.

1- "Omnipotent"
Does it comfort you to know
that someone has a hand in all of this
Look above for all your answers
Not looking within
Comfort yourself with (false hope)
There is no god, only man
Living in delusion
prayers to your divine
yield empty promises
drop to your knees
close your eyes tight
all of your prayers wont feed
the suffering
all your prayers wont heal
the suffering
Look above for all your answers
Not looking within
Comfort yourself (with false hope)
Our critical minds should
Yield to true thought
abandon the false hope
THERE IS NO ONE
WATCHING OVER YOU

The word Omnipotent means all powerful. One of the things people claim God is, he is suppose to show this through answering prayers. So this song is basically about prayer. The false hope it brings people and how some things in life you actually have to get involved in to make a change. For some people prayer is used to comfort themselves or others. In bad times they say "I'll pray for you" or "pray for me, i need blah blah blah". Because of how the human mind works, it does help some people deal with things in their lives, what's so wrong with that? Some would say nothing, but what good is something that brings people false hope. Large problems in this world will never be solved through prayer. If everyone at your church prayed that some village in Africa would need all the food it needed to end starving or end the spread of AIDS it would not happen. If prayer worked, then some of the words problems would have ended long ago. It says in the bible you can move mountains if you have the faith, I still haven't seen any mountains moved. If you want to play the card "it's not in God's will" then that would mean suffering for millions of innocent people is a test for them? Or it's not in his will, they need to suffer. This is a whole other explanation but it's to get my point across.
If you have an ailment or something that you believe in this world needs to change, you have to do it yourself. You have to actually work at it and do what it takes. If you have cancer you need to get treatment, if you want to feed the homeless you need to do it. Prayer will not cure or end these things. There have been lots of scientific studies about the effects of prayer on people. There is no one watching over you, so if you want change, health and well being, look within yourself.

If you want to know more, go here.
http://www.godisimaginary.com/i2.htm




2- "Suffer"
True salvation can only
be achieved through suffering
brought to the house of the dying
where they continue to suffer
The greed of the mother
in the name of peace
and prosperity
blinded by the false
intentions and lies
of holy entities
a life of fiscal secrecy
taken from the poor
for the greed of the Divine
SHE WILL WATCH YOU SUFFER
for your salvation
the unexamined life of our idols
never questioning their intentions
misleading in their tranquil visions
lifted through their greed
the true evil of a sadistic saint

In our society we tend to idolize a lot of people. Especially people we consider to do a great deal for the less fortunate. But how often do we question what these people do is real and just. Mother Teresa was given the noble peace prize in 1979 but no many people know exactly what she did. Mother Teresa's Home for the Dying (yes it was really called that) in Calcutta, India was exactly how it sounds. Many of the nuns and volunteers there described the conditions as being like a concentration camp. This place was intended for sick children of India to get better and also learn about religion. Some people that worked along side her believed that Mother Teresa had an almost obsession with suffrage. That to truly understand and believe in Jesus and God you most go through a certain amount of suffering and begin to understand you need God and salvation.
A lot of the money she raised was dirty. The leader of Haiti at the time gave a large amount of money to Mother Teresa's charity. The money that was given was not to help the starving and diseased of Haiti, but back to India and to open up more nunneries (places women go to become a nun). In fact the money that Mother Teresa would receive mostly went to opening new nunneries, and not to help the sick and suffering. Mother Teresa's charity was one of the only Non Profit (i could be wrong, it may have not been non profit) that would not let their expenses and financial statements (showing how money is spent) shown to the public. In the 80's there was a huge scandal that this man Charles Keating essentially stole $252 Million in a savings and loan scandal. He gave 1 and a 1/4 million dollars to Mother Teresa and use of his private jet. When he got convicted of his crimes Mother Teresa refused to give her money back to the 17,000 individuals who lost it.
The catholic church has pushed to grant her sainthood sooner then what is usually their policy. The catholic church is suppose to wait 5 years after some one's death to begin the canonization (sainthood) process. But they started early. Why would they do this? They can make money off her sainthood, books, figures, and various other religions related merchandise.
Basically in life you should exam people and what they do when everyone seems to idolize them and almost worship them for their good deeds, some times there's a lot more to them that you don't know.
All in all i think Mother Teresa did do some good things for this world, but she also did some fucked up shit.



3- "Of Flesh"
The fault of the human mind
is the fear of death
fear of death is ignorance

there is nothing beyond this
this grave is only six feet deep
no immortal bliss

the awareness of one's self
brings on the fear of our mortality
the ending destiny of our being

they have played on our fear
from the beginning
controlling through fear
cast down to the depths
obey and the reward
is at the pearly gates
immortality of perfection

feed into their lies
of immortality
comfort your fears
with obedience

expiration is the end
I will not live in denial
of my demise
there is no eternity of light
there is no eternity of dark
(awaiting me)

there is nothing beyond this
this grave is only six feet deep
no immortal bliss

I have not lived in fear
of what this will become
I will be buried
I will be forgotten

"To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?"
-Socrates

Some of the lyrics for this song were based off that quote. The fear of death is one of the main driving forces of religion. Religion gives people an answer to what comes after death. The moment we become aware of ourselves we also become aware of the fact that some day there will be an end to ourselves. This is a fear of death and religion helps comfort people into the fact that death is not the end. In fact if you live this life the way God wants, you can have everything you want in heaven, and if you don't you will go to hell (fear is played into this, people fear hell). There is nothing beyond this world. When I die, that will be the end of me, I will be buried, I will be forgotten, and im completely fine with that. I think the lyrics themselves are pretty self explanatory.