That song (What God Wants) is by Roger Waters, ex-singer of Pink Floyd. I think he is an atheist, but anyway, he was making a statement, not about God but about what people think God wants and how it is always percieved as being about money and material things (I think he is agnostic) and the "God is on our side" mentality from the perspective of different religions when at war with each other.
I admit it is quite irreverent, but it speaks a truth about materialism in religion (and religion in materialism). He is basing it on the "In God We Trust" on American money (I don't know if Britain had that motto, but he mentions dollars and cents pounds shillings and pence). The album cover hints at this because it has a huge eye on a tv screen with a gorilla looking at the tv (a satire of Darwinism and survival of the fittest mentality, no doubt) The eye symbolizes the one dollar "great seal" and the tv represents the commercialization and glorification of war. There is a storyline in the album which corresponds loosely with the book "Amusing Ourselves To Death" (by Neil Postman) from which the title is from, which is basically about how people are dumbed down by "show business" and how war is glorified in mass media. This was a response to the first gulf war in Iraq and makes reference to other wars as well. His father was killed in World War II when he was only 1 year old, which he resents because that regiment was basically left to die like sitting ducks.
Not that I'm making excuses for the irreverent tone of the song, but there's more to the bigger story of the album in it's entirety. I don't agree with his politics because he is pro Palestinian (I mean PLO, not the individual people who are massively decieved by their leaders)
around the end of the album, the world is destroyed by nuclear war while people are found huddled around their tv sets (ironically found by alien anthropologists) (they died watching the nuclear holocaust on their tv sets) He uses alot of irony and satire to get his point across. I don't think it was meant to be personally offensive to anyone's religion. The thing I don;t like about Roger's philosophy is that he's an ecumenicist, but I think he's more of an atheist than agnostic. He might even be a "gnostic".
However, I don't believe it is how Jesus would choose to get a message across. I have recently been doing alot of research on him and Pink Floyd in general because they are very popular and influential people (and I used to be a big fan of Pink Floyd). They most recently appeared in a sort of reunion at the Live 8 concert in London (where Madonna was, waving her middle finger around and dropping "F" bombs all over the place) which was supposed to encourage
the G-8 summit to relieve African debt. Nobody in the project (that I know of) bothered to point out the real reason for all of that debt which is due mostly in part to corrupt leaders in Africa (and possibly the U.N.) and the propping up of puppet regimes (mostly Muslim) and that foreign financial aid results in loss of incentive to create businesses in the area because of competition with American and European freebies (donated clothing and food) and the monetary aid is diverted to building the wealth of the corrupt ruling elite (propped up by the Globalist wackos)
"For God's Sake, Please Stop the Aid!"wow, did I write ALL OF THAT? (sorry it's so long)
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... and at some point, this corn ends up in the harbor of Mombasa. A portion of the corn often goes directly into the hands of unsrupulous politicians who then pass it on to their own tribe to boost their next election campaign. Another portion of the shipment ends up on the black market where the corn is dumped at extremely low prices. Local farmers may as well put down their hoes right away; no one can compete with the UN's World Food Program. And because the farmers go under in the face of this pressure, Kenya would have no reserves to draw on if there actually were a famine next year. It's a simple but fatal cycle.