ICP was a huge part of my life growing up. What I always loved was how it felt like they were poking at everything… religion included. It came off sarcastic to me. Like they were exaggerating it on purpose. Almost like “this is what it would look like if all this was actually real.”
Like I spent days of my life preaching joker cards to my friends. It was like the antireligion focus on justice and not some weak ass higher power who couldn’t do shit about all the corrupt and disgusting power hungry fuckers out in the world.
Then they came out saying they really do believe in God and it just threw me off. Changed the whole vibe. Stuff that used to feel like commentary suddenly felt more… literal.
I kinda checked out after that.
Now my son found my old CDs and we’ve been listening again. And yeah, I still love it. That hasn’t gone anywhere. But that piece of it still bugs me. I can’t really separate it now.
Not trying to start anything. Just curious if anyone else had that same reaction or if it never bothered you.