Reviews for Judith Lyrics

"It's not like you killed someone
It's not like you drove a hateful spear into his side"

Actually she did. We ALL did. The whole point of what Jesus did was to show the nature of man. He came with a message of peace and they killed him. Even his closest friends (the disciples) that followed him for 3 years denied him and pretended they never knew him. But it wasn't God that paralysed her, it's just the world we live in.

The world rejects a message of peace yet blames God for their suffering. God doesn't cause suffereing, WE cause it. Religious wars are men's greed and selfishness hiding behind God. It has nothing to do with God.

Sorry to get all preachy, I was just giving my opinion on part of the song lyrics :)

in 1978 i fell in love with the most wonderful girl ever to grace this earth,Debbie,
she was the epitome of a lady a loving caring girl who believed in God and prayer who only wanted to be a wife and mother. her only "sin" was falling in love with me and getting pregnant before marriage
we married in april during her senior year and it was the happiest time in my life and then on a sunday morn instead of going to church we decided to sleep in
while we were making love she had an aneryism resulting in me having to sign the papers to shut off life support on my 19th birthday
i later heard from ppl that she was punished for her "sins"
this was 30+ yrs ago and i still want to know "the reason why" a god could justify this
this song expresses my feelings PERFECTLY

This song isn't directed towards God in any way. If you've seen Maynard's interview about the song you'd know that the song is directed towards the people in his mother's life that blamed her illness on god, saying that god planned for her to have these illnesses. The song is a means for him to say Fuck your God, as in the individual's who believed God punishes all unfairly. His mother never renounced her religion throughout her lifetime, which pertains to the lines: still you pray, never stray, never
Taste of the fruit, never thought to question "Why?"

We, non-believes, need somewhere to go too. I live in West Texas, imprisoned by bigots, & these songs SAVE mine & my husband's life daily. We non-believers are affected by Christianity as genuinely as believers are. This song is superbly anti-christian, it derives from the heart of a man who struggles to comprehend his mother's beliefs in christianity & the pain of her unfortunate circumstances. Beautiful, powerful & inspiring. Thank you Maynard James Keenan for giving the millions of good ppl in this world, who aren't geared to believe in a christian God, songs to sing. Pure freedom...

Don't any of you see that he has struggled his whole life with his mother paralized and her broken down body since he was a child. However, his mother never failed to praise the lord and give thanks to her God. Maynard could never really understand why she would relentlessly praise a God who left her this way. This is where his own resentment manifested... Because of his mothers undying love for a God who he thinks is the one who did this to her.

God won't save you. You will save yourself. In those hardtimes you pull through on your own. I'm sure its comforting to think that there's someone helping you through all your little problems but that's not the case. Evil is in everyone, and religion is spoonfed to you out of a rule book. So I see why he wrote this song. At the end you can pray all you want but there won't be some golden light that saves you from death. If you die you die. If you live then that's how things happen. The cross isn't the cure. Get over yourselves.

I think all of u are dumbasses. Who cares what the song is really fucking about ppl always got to bing a argument about god into this shit and it really makes me sick. I myself am a christian i love god but i dont try to shove my religion down other ppls necks. Just enjoy the music that this genius has given us and shut the fuck up about all this little baby he made fun of my god bull shit get the fuck over it.

I think that it is sad that a man can't express himself and how he feels about a dark point and time in his life without people on the religiuos side or the opposite without people jumping down his throat. If you can't relate then why do you listen?

i really dig a perfect circle...i think they're a really awesome band, who has really expressive,interesting songs... but as a christian, i'm kind of hurt by this. i can't stand people who throw their religions in your face in a pushy way- that does far from help anyone. that being said, i also can't stand people laughing at or criticizing someone, because they choose to have hope and faith.i get that he may have been upset, and freedom of speech and everything, but why be hateful?

Chill | Reviewer: Immi | 12/2/10

Why must people try to hard to argue about things? Maynard's mother died, she was very religious, and he's angry and hurt that she's gone and the god she chose to believe in didn't save her, and he wrote a song about it. It's pretty damn simple.

its what this person said and a little more. his mother had a stroke when she was 31 that left her partially paralyzed for the last 29 years of her life. not just physically paralyzed but she couldn't even read a clock. could barely speak. And it may seem scathing or hateful towards his mother. but in my mind it isn't its just honestly how he feels about her beliefs

I dont like this song on many grounds. I dont like that christians are trying to go mainstream. the fact is, he covered up the lyrics with loud guitar riffs, which means to me, that the song is pro christian, and he tried to toss it in mainstream. That is my two cents.

Let's look at the facts; as described by Maynard himself in the aMOTION commentary on the DVD. This isn't a song about anti-religion as a whole, or fucking the Christian god. It's specifically about his mother's church, and how the fundamental Christians were talking behind her back about being "punished"

I never see the point in going after a God you don't believe in for something you couldn't control. The root of all evil is people. evil inside of people is part of all of us. The degree to which people act on that evil is different for each person. Crusades under the guise of religion, robbing a store, or just thinking something bad - it's all bad and we are all capable of it. Only God can save us from ourselves.

Why must people try to hard to argue about things? Maynard's mother died, she was very religious, and he's angry and hurt that she's gone and the god she chose to believe in didn't save her, and he wrote a song about it. It's pretty damn simple.

C'mon guys, don't bring that religious BS over here. Go comment on gospel songs if you want to talk about your god. This song speaks to us like minded individuals who can't help but to laugh at your prayers.