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The Gospel of Barn Owl - The Rise and Fall of Christendom

by Jared Both

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Constantine I don’t believe. You’re not as Great as some people think Constantine I don’t believe. Christ had to die to make you king. After Julius killed off the Republic the people needed something to believe in. Something that would bring them together. Nothing would bind them like Christendom would. For three hundred years Christians were persecuted because they refused to bow down. Constantine fashioned a new civic religion: Christ is God but I make the law. Who died and made you king? Constantine I don’t believe. History isn’t what it seems.
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All the devastation, the butchering, the plundering, the conflagration, and all the anguish were in accord with the general practice of war. All of Rome had totally surrendered. The barbarian savagery had a gentle nature. The large basilisks chosen, set aside. Filled with people, spared by the enemy. No one taken away into captivity. All of Rome had totally surrendered. Everything was stolen or burned to the ground. No one who hid in the churches were injured. No one lost their lives for the sake of a few jewels. How long? Will you hide yourself forever? How long? Will your wrath burn like fire? You have renounced your covenant. You have defiled the crown into the dust. I will punish their sins with a rod and their iniquities with flogging but I will not take away my love from them or ever forsake my faithfulness. The barbarians will burn down your house, your bank, your supermarket, and police station. But they have not yet burned down the home of Palestinian children.
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Twelve fifteen A. D . Summoned to his holy seat in Rome. Pope innocent began the council. The council of Christendom. If the ruler fails to cleanse. His land of rot and heresy. The peasants are absolved of all oaths. Reclaim the land for Christendom No catholic priest can spill blood. Or write a letter to command it. But the West must free the Holy Land so send the armies of Christendom. With the powers of the apostles every Crusader was granted full pardon of all their sins to go to war for Christendom. Anathematize every heretic that raises up against the Catholic faith. Turn them over to the bailiffs they can prove their innocence You keep the gay kids out of church by spreading lies about pestilence I don't want to hear about your love of God. While your hatred burns against my friends You turn love to hate. So you can fight your crusade.
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Walter Benjamin put down with pen the roman empire will never end lightning flashes like a camera lens Carthage attacks Rome again the angel of history is flying backwards into the storm of so called progress calamity after calamity piles high the wreckage we are not angels and we are not helpless you said history is written by victorious tyrants? well its symbols of power are just gaudy dress the empire power is awesome in emptiness Can John Calvin rule away this guilty Christian’s choice to dance? You had the chance to shake shake shake it off Shake shake it off
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She looks just like a priestess with her dress of fire on. Upon the pulpit of a pyre, her body singing soft and loud. A Piercing Light. The hands that built and lit the fire are searching for control. She is building peace on earth not opium for her soul. A Piercing Light. She knows that Jesus suffered and died so violence can't control. Or own all of our convictions or purify what's cultural A Piercing Light Every end is just a beginning, you want change or do you just want to fit in? Every end is just a beginning, sacrificed, burned and turned to light. Baptized with fire, baptize me Holy Spirit, baptize everything that is simply self-perpetual A Piercing Light.

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"With this album the gospel of Barn Owl offers an electro sonic lament for the historic loss of innocence in Christian spirituality. It is a pop driven complaint against complacency and a groovy invitation to rediscover the wild and untamed ways of the one they called the Nazarene." Mark Scandrette author of "Free".

"Imagine Jared Both (of The Gospel of Barn Owl) teaching your new seminary class called The Rise and Fall of Christendom featuring a playful edge of 8bit synth, bleeding spoken word a al Listener, and the sober vocal flow of Cake. There is enough critique to pique the interest of the skeptic with the healing nature of hope of a movement of God still to come. I felt like me, Jared, and Jesus were going through all the levels of Bad Dudes at a theological arcade" Joshua Grace, pastor at Circle of Hope and former drummer of the Psalters.

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released October 23, 2014

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Jared Both London, Ontario

I am a London Ontario artist and I write in the vein of other Ontario indie folk artists like The Stars. In the cities I have lived in, I have bicycled through many snowy streets to attend and perform at small venue shows.

Past bands include:
Barn Owl (Toronto)
-Young Feathers (Kitchener & Hamilton)
-Gospel of Barn Owl (Hamilton)
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