Christ Is Inside -- Of You

by The Hippy Coyote

"Christ Killer" is about Mormons.

Boy, I'm gonna be in big trouble when this album comes out.

SHEESH! I'm inserting this information onto this page. We've been sending out PRESS RELEASES and a few mentioned our upcoming album, "LEVEL 2 = Christ Killer." Now the press is being weird...

SO, here's a LINK to a LIVE SONG VERSION of "Christ Killer." We haven't finished the studio version--but just to let people know we're advocating the use of crosses...

"CHRIST KILLER" performed LIVE by The Coyote of American Zen.

Actually, there are many types of 'Christ Killers.'

When I left Los Angeles, to move here, to the land of polygamy and women in slavery...Los Angeles, or at least Hollywood, was infested with VAMPIRES.

Seriously.

American Zen, made our big move there, to make it big.

Coming from San Diego, we didn't really notice much difference except that the beaches were more crowded and there's not a damn bit of dirt left to ride our dirt bikes.

Ah, San Diego. There's the place to live.

Oh crap. I think I'll edit that last comment out.

San Diego was one of the fastest growing cities last decade.

I don't want to encourage more immigrants from the midwest.

An interesting point: Where do Mormons go who are excommunicated?

ANSWER: California.

For those of you, who belong to compassionate religions, you may not know what excommunication is.

Excommunication is where they do more than just kick you out of their religion.

Excommunication is where they BAN YOU FROM HEAVEN.

Now, who put these Priests in charge of the Pearly Gates?

Well, that's a wild story all by itself.

A guy finds some Golden Tablets on an American Farm in the 1800s. An Angel named MORONI gives him a rock that if worn around his neck enables him to translate these thousand year old golden tablets made by Indians that never worked with gold...and this becomes the Mormon Bible. Then the Angel takes off with the Golden Tablets.

This is a wild tale because this not only means that Angels can appear, they can take physical objects from our physical reality and transport them to - - Heaven?

Hmmm. Maybe they'll be taking a copy of my CD back to Heaven.

I wonder if God will be pissed off or proud of me?

Let's see:

The title song of AMERICAN ZEN - LEVEL 2 is "God Will Protect."

What am I saying? Well, I'm actually quoting a lot of Mormon concepts in this song.

So, if the Mormons are really the chosen children of God, then he's gonna be pissed off.

Then again, if all NON-Mormons are the outsiders, then who cares?

Kind of like prison rules. Who cares if you're not in prison?

The song "Quiet Army" is about the Mormons running big businesses. I saw something in the newspaper stating that the Mormon religion is the 5th BIGGEST BUSINESS on the planet earth. The Mormon church is worth some 500 BILLION DOLLARS!

So, according to Jesus who said you could more easily fit a camel through the eye of a needle than a tax collector into Heaven - - well, maybe God's changed his tune in the last 2000 years. The Mormons forbid drinking coffee, tea, or caffeine...yet they OWN THE COCA COLA COMPANY.

I guess that's like the Afghanistan Muslims: they forbid taking drugs but they grow all the HEROIN POPPIES for all us Christians.

Sheesh. Where was I?

Oh yeah! ( I just scrolled up to the top of the page. )

Christ killers.

If you want to understand what I'm saying in this song, you need to understand my concept of Christ.

I read the Bible.

Yep. My dad gave me a copy when I was in jail.

My dad. I love him dearly.

He's the basis of my spirituality.

Hopefully he's smiling after reading that.

Uh. Actually, I hope he's not reading any of this.

I saw him last year and warned him about this website.

I told him not to read any of this. Really, I did.

But, well, hold on, let me see if I can find a picture of 'Pops.'

There he is.

Hey, with that PRIVACY BAR on his face, he kinda looks like me.

Or, I look like him...

Anyway, Pops is a good Christian. He goes to church weekly, sometimes daily - - he says.

I guess he knows better than to invite me that much.

I'll never understand why Catholics have such uncomfortable seating. Aside from my mind going to sleep with all that Latin lingo, my butt goes from sore to sleep to excommunicated...

Anyway, I'm supposed to be explaining my concept of Christ.

I think Christ was an awesome dude!

That probably didn't get me off the excommunication hook yet.

Seriously, I think Christ was an INCREDIBLE ROLE MODEL.

I don't think he EVER intended to create a new religion though.

He was just a cool Rabbi.

He never even wrote anything down.

Then he gets thrown in jail for trashing the Jewish bingo tables...well, that's another topic.

Anyway, Christ is this really cool dude. A pacifist.

Christ would never have joined the Crusades or burned witches or tortured heretics...

So it's Christians I've got a beef with.

Oh yeah, remember those Hollywood vampires I mentioned earlier?

Almost every vampire I've even known WEARS A CHRISTIAN CROSS on a necklace around their neck.

Hmmm.

Before you start accusing me of being in league with Lucifer for my comments...keep in mind that I actually enjoyed being in church. I love the stained glass. I really love the huge domed ceilings.

The church I enjoyed the most was the MISSION DE ALCALA in San Diego. I hope I spelled that right. It was built by the Indians back in the 1700s. It has a really cool vibe and a beautiful garden I walked in every Sunday we went there.

The reason I point this out is that, even as a kid I felt really uncomfortable with the huge huge statues of Christ's dead corpse hung on the cross with blood dripping down his forehead and nails hammered into his body.

THAT IS UGLY!

Sorry. I don't care how sacrilegious you want to call me. Making idols wasn't Christ's gig when he was alive, and I'm certain he would never have told his Disciples to make statues of his mutilated body.

Hey, I've made enough enemies with that last statement so I'll even go one step further: I think that IF there is a Devil, and he's at war with Christ ...he'd enjoy having a statue of a dead Christ a lot more than Christ's mother would!

Which gets me back to the vampires. Vampires wear more Christian crosses than an army of Catholics. So what's the connection?

Vampires are Christ Killers. They don't fear crosses. Vampires relish DEAD CHRIST ART.

Uh-oh. FIrst I alienate myself from the Christians, and now I'm on the Vampire 'Most Wanted' list.

Okay. So what if Christians and Vampires all worship dead Christ images?

Well, to be honest with you, THAT'S STILL NOT WHAT MY SONG IS ABOUT!

You look confused.

Well, I'm presuming that if I could see you you'd look confused.

Back to me and the Bible I'm reading in prison.

To be honest with you, I didn't have any enlightenments in prison.

I read the Bible to kill time.

But the messages of Christ stuck with me. I thought he was really really cool.

That was what the Bible meant to me. Christ was setting a good example. He was a role model. He was nonviolent, a 'turn the other cheek' kind of guy.

More than that he taught LOVE and COMPASSION.

That's the essence of Christ's teachings for me. I believe he was teaching us how to get along with each other and love each other and be nice to each other.

I also believe that when he referred to himself as the 'Son Of God' he was stating that we are all 'Children Of God.'

You still with me?

So, if we are ALL children of God, then we are all Christs.

Whew!

That's what I was getting at! Every human is a child of God and so every human is a Christ.

Still with me?

HOWEVER, when we hang a Dead Mutilated Christ on our neck we are Christ Killers.

NOT by just the simple Cross worship though. It's the denial of the Christ within us that makes us Christ killers.

If you place your self on an evolutionary ladder rung LOWER THAN CHRIST then you are killing your spiritual connection to God.

Maybe my song, "Christ Killer," says it all better than I have here...

Before I read this page to see if I've been to 'wordy,' I'll add one more comment.

Let's see, I've alienated myself from Christians and Vampires. Let's add BIG BUSINESS to my enemy list.

I believe that by conforming to the restrictions of big business and wearing a suit you are also killing your 'Inner Christ.'

I also believe that the TIE that businessmen wear is a modern version of the COLLAR AND LEASH we put on a pet dog.

That's what I mean by "Ties suit the Christ Killer" in the lyrics.

The Coyote

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