Wat ik las in een interview:
As far as spiritually - the message we as a band want to convey more than anything is simple - God is Love. He is a just God, but a gracious God. All anyone seems to want to do these days is judge other people for things that they themselves are doing. It's so easy to feel completely and hopelessly alone. I used to visit a church that happened to openly support President Clinton. I remember more than once seeing people on the street in front of the church who were opposed to Clinton's stand on homosexuality. These people had their small children with them holding up signs that said "God Hates Fags". The children weren't even old enought to know what homeosexuality was, all they knew was that they were supposed to hate them. The thing that bothered me was not their ignorance or their hateful standpoint, but that they called themselves Christians. The world is filled with hateful people who parade the name of Christ like a badge that grants them immunity to destroy anyone who disagrees with them and they are turning more people away from the love of Jesus than any other group of people in the world. The #1 cause of atheism is Christians. We only hope to offset that as much as we can. God gave human beings amazing amounts of understanding, but they are still flawed and they make mistakes. God understands all. He is not flawed. He does not hate. He knows you better than you know yourself and He understands how you feel. We hope to express in our music that Christianity is not a rigid list of rules to follow only out of fear of an unseen deity who will strike you down at any given moment if you fail. I am a Christian. I still have fears, I still have pain, I still have sorrow, I wouldn't be alive if I didn't. The beautiful thing about My relationship with God is that he understands all that and He has shown me what life is really for. There are so many things in this life that are taken for granted because they are overshadowed by all the hate. We write songs about things that happen in life. All of our songs are not about rainbows and sunshine. Sometimes it rains. Who can we help if we won't even talk about it. No one is alone.
