Is No Church in the Wild anti-Christian?

[catholicliver22]

rapgenius.com/Kanye-west-no-church-in-the-wild-lyrics

I like the beat of this song, but i’m worried it’s anti-christian.

There were some lyrics I am worried about, and I wonder if it’s okay to listen to?

These were the lyrics I’m not sure about

“Jesus was a carpenter, Yeezy he laid beats
Hova flow the Holy Ghost, get the hell up out your seats, preach”

This is a little worrying, but I’m thinking Jay-Z is saying Jesus was a carpenter, and did great things, and Kanye makes beats and does great things, and is calling his flow amazing, but I’m not sure.

“We formed a new religion
No sins as long as there’s permission
And deception is the only felony
So never **** nobody without telling me”

Kanye is equating love to religion, I’m not sure if this is bad.

I’m also not sure about the Hook
“Human beings in a mob
What’s a mob to a king? What’s a king to a God?
What’s a God to a non-believer who don’t believe in anything?
Will he make it out alive? Alright, alright, no church in the wild”

Is this song anti-christian? Is listening to it a sin? I know it has curse words in it, but I’m not worried about those, I can listen to the clean version, I’m not sure about the other lyrics.

 

[St_Francis]

I find these words problematic:

"We formed a new religion
No sins as long as there’s permission

So it’s ok to do anything you want with anyone who gives permission? Not in the Catholic religion!

And the following two lines seem to imply that adultery is ok too? Also not Catholic…

ETA: Equating *true *love with religion is a good thing, after all, God is love; but I kinda suspect the type of “love” Kanye is talking about is not the type of love that looks out for the *good of the other, *but rather for the pleasures of one’s self.

 

[Zachary]

Ya, anything from an album called Yeezus put out by a notorious narcissist and megalomaniac is hardly going to be good theology.

At best, it’s a watered down moral relativism that is espoused by some non-Catholic christians. At worst, it’s pure lust.

 

[Tenofovir]

“Human beings in a mob
What’s a mob to a king? What’s a king to a God?
What’s a God to a non-believer who don’t believe in anything?
Will he make it out alive? Alright, alright, no church in the wild”

This is better, however, or maybe my reading of it is incorrect. It’s not bad at all and quite positive. Some people don’t believe in anything, I don’t think KW would say such people are positive, and these people are the mob, the wild, and there is no church there, just violence and hate. The alternative to the religion is that… just a mob, a wild untamed heart of man which rages in meaninglessness.

 

[phil19034]

This is better, however, or maybe my reading of it is incorrect. It’s not bad at all and quite positive. Some people don’t believe in anything, I don’t think KW would say such people are positive, and these people are the mob, the wild, and there is no church there, just violence and hate. The alternative to the religion is that… just a mob, a wild untamed heart of man which rages in meaninglessness.

Kanye West comes from a fundamentalist, Protestant background (my sister knows his cousin and met him at his cousin’s church). Regardless, this is 100% anti-Catholic.

 

[catholicliver22]

So is it a sin to listen to the song? I don’t feel it makes me against God in anyway, infact it actually makes me closer to God because it gets me thinking about God.

 

[Viki63]

I would not say it’s a sin to listen to the song. But don’t get your theology from Kanye, there are much better places.
You could have a rule that you listen to one Catholic CD for every secular one you listen to. Just a thought.