DESCRIPTION:
The official music video for Pansy Division's "Blame The Bible" from the album "Quite Contrary," conceived and edited by John Austin Childress, copyright 2016.

While this video contains images that are disturbing, WE are disturbed by the current state of our country and around the world. It is Pansy Division's position that removing ALL religions from society will improve the world immensely.

Religion can be a beautiful thing, if taken in the context it deserves: a belief system based on a collection of stories that have no basis in fact, but can offer insights into how to be a better human being. Once religions go beyond this limitation (and we feel that most of them do), they can be dangerous. Just look at how our gay brothers and sisters are being treated elsewhere in the world: thrown off of buildings, stoned to death, burned alive, etc. And why? Because a few believers have turned their 'chosen' religion into a set of laws that permit and encourage them to separate and eliminate, rather than unite and treat equally.

Pansy Division asserts that not one human being has chosen who they are. Here are the questions we use to test this:

1) when did you choose to be born a man (or woman)?
2) when did you choose the time and place you were born?
3) when did you choose the physical appearance you were born with (hair color/type, eye color, skin color)?

These questions and others like it point to the obvious conclusion: we have all arrived here at birth without prior choice and are therefore entirely equal at birth. It is only when we adopt inherited sets of beliefs as adults that separation and cruelty to each other begins.

God is not a fact, or we wouldn't be having this discussion. One must not treat their 'chosen' religion (belief system) as a fact, or the 'one true religion' as they all profess to be. Since we have no concrete evidence of the existence of any 'supreme being,' it would be a better world if religion were reduced to the level of Santa Claus until evidence is discovered.

And until such time, treat your fellow human being as you would treat yourself.

He’s a politician with a love of the lord
He’s getting kickbacks from his seat on the church board
He voted no, of course, on your civil rights
And if he gets elected he’d reverse that, all right

Your basic needs are not his priority
He’s got his reputation to oversee
So if you’re gay or if you just don’t fit in
He’ll introduce you to the wages of sin

He hides behind the Bible’s libel
And wants to scare you straight
He’s redesigned the Bible’s libel
To justify his hate

Here’s another Christian who swears he’s not gay
When asked if there’s a woman, he’d rather not say
And what about this asshole caught with kiddie porn?
He’s funneling funds through churches “to protect the unborn”

I can’t believe, I can’t believe what they say
They’ll say anything to get their own way
They have no limits, they’ll just blatantly lie
In the name of Jesus it’s all justified

They’re quoting all the Bible’s libel
The ones that suit their needs
Promoting all the Bible’s libel
With words but not their deeds

What’s written in the Bible is libel
No matter what you’ve heard
We’re sick of all the Bible’s libel
So don’t believe a word

Do you want him for your president? NO
Do you want him for your president? NO
Do you want her for your president? NO
Do you want him for your president? HELL NO

Do you want religion controlling your life? HELL NO
Do you want religion controlling your life? HELL NO
Do you want religion controlling your life? HELL NO
Then I want you to repeat after me

We don’t need the Bible, Bible
So throw it all away
Yeah, we don’t heed the Bible, Bible
Any-fucking-way

What’s written in the Bible is libel
But slanders you and me
So spit into the Bible, Bible
And just be free

Isn’t it about time we gave up on Christianity?
I mean really, it’s so unnecessary and so deceitful.
Using verses from the Bible to validate their hate
Just look at all the damage they’ve caused.
So let’s take away the one thing they use to perpetuate this worldwide fraud
And tear up the Bible