Metal

As an atheist watching my country about to commit itself to yet another war in the Middle East, I can't stop thinking about this criminally underrated track.

Almost 20 years later it remains a poignant condemnation of religious extremism of all kinds, pointing out the hypocrisy of preaching the love of God for all mankind one day and crying out for the destruction of nonbelievers the next.

And no, of course I'm not so naive as to think that religious differences are the only motivation for the current conflict, nor that people couldn't find reasons to kill each other without religion. I just wonder if it wouldn't be so easy to justify if the calls for blood weren't purportedly coming from the mouth of God himself.