well, ok. i'm listening to this a bit more, and religion and music is...

i was raised as an atheist, but i went to a catholic school, and i know people that struggled with faith, and either eventually discarded it or fell back into it. i never had such a struggle; i was a self-identifying, conscious atheist by the time i turned 10, and i've never had any serious doubts about it.

there was certainly a time when i was a kid where i identified with specifically anti-religious music, but it was on an anti-authoritarian basis and not a question of struggling with a faith that i've never had. i can still enjoy a good fuck you to religion; i'm not any less anti-authoritarian, and not any less interested in poking fingers in the eyes of religious types. i still enjoy watching them squirm. but, nowadays, i'd rather listen to something like bad religion than something like nine inch nails; i'm more into the elevation of reason than the denigration of faith, even if i think there's a place in my playlist for both.

i've been through this with other records as well. i just don't have all of this catholic guilt and repression. but, like i say, i get it, abstractly. so, i'll just say that it would follow that some of the tracks on here are more interesting to me than others.