“The Art of Veneration: No, Catholics Don’t Worship Statues” — The Song Smashes the Idolatry Myth for Good

Every few weeks, like liturgical clockwork, someone confidently declares:

“Catholics worship statues!”

“Images are idols!”

“God hates religious art!”

And every time, the internet nods along

as if this weren’t contradicted

by the Bible

the Church

and two thousand years of Christian practice.

Here’s what the meme-culture theologians never mention:

God Himself commanded sacred images.

Moses didn’t invent the bronze serpent — God did.

Solomon didn’t freestyle cherubim, pomegranates, and carved angels — God ordered it.

Beauty wasn’t banned. Idolatry was.

And Deuteronomy 4:15?

The verse everyone misquotes?

God literally says Israel couldn’t make an image of Him because

“you saw no form.”

No form = no image.

Then the impossible happened:

God took on a form.

Jesus — the image of the invisible God.

The Incarnation didn’t just redeem humanity —

it redeemed art.

That’s why the early Church filled catacombs with frescoes,

raised mosaics that preached the Gospel,

and carved the saints into stone:

the “catechism of the illiterate,”

truth for the eyes

when the tongue couldn’t teach it yet.

Meanwhile…

You can build a forty-foot Lincoln,

carve presidents into a mountain,

or fly a giant Garfield balloon down Manhattan —

no one screams “IDOLATRY!”

But carry Mary in a procession?

Suddenly everyone’s a part-time biblical scholar with a minor in “Graven Images 101.”

Images aren’t idols.

They’re reminders.

They’re witnesses.

They’re windows into heaven

— the family photos of the Kingdom.

This track exists for one reason:

to put the “statue worship” myth in its grave once and for all.

🎶 “No, Catholics Don’t Worship Statues” — out now.

A track for Scripture nerds, history lovers, and anyone exhausted by the internet confusing art with apostasy.

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📜🔥 NEW SONG: “FACT: You Believe In Purgatory”

A snarky theological reality check for anyone who thinks they don’t.

Most Christians say, “I don’t believe in purgatory.”

But then they say…

“Of course nobody dies perfect.”

And also…

“Of course people in heaven are perfect.”

And right there — in that tiny, unavoidable gap —

they just admitted the whole doctrine.

If you die imperfect

and enter heaven perfect,

then something happened in between.

Call it cleansing.

Call it healing.

Call it finishing the race.

Call it washing your robes white in the blood of the Lamb.

We just call that moment purgatory.

Not a third destination.

Not a mini-hell.

Just the final sweep of grace

before the Wedding Feast.

Luke 12 teaches it.

Paul teaches it.

The early Church lived it.

And you… probably believe it already.

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📜✨ “Imago Dei & Human Rights”

A snarky, metaphysics-soaked reminder that human rights didn’t fall out of the sky — they sprang from a single explosive revelation:

You bear God’s image.

And the modern world is still coasting on that shockwave.

Some folks love to say, “Equality is obvious.”

Really?

Nothing about it is obvious.

Look at humanity for five seconds:

taller / shorter, stronger / weaker, brilliant / not-so-brilliant.

The most self-evident truth is that we are not equal in any natural sense.

To get equality, you need something super-natural —

something no pagan myth ever stumbled within a mile of.

Because in the old stories?

We were cosmic jokes, factory workers for irritable gods,

or the accidental runoff of divine misbehavior.

Not one myth dared to say,

“You carry God’s image.”

Then Scripture detonated in the ancient world:

“Let Us make man in Our image.”

A sentence that toppled tyrannies, lifted slaves,

and rewired civilization from the inside out.

Human rights aren’t self-evident.

They’re Judeo-Christian.

Full stop.

And every time the secular world invokes equality,

it’s quoting Genesis with the citation scrubbed off.

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A track for anyone who wants to remember

why humans actually matter.

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📜🔥 NEW SONG: “The Church Is a Hospital for Sinners, Not (Yet) a Mansion for Saints”

A snarky, clear-eyed reminder that the sins of Christians don’t disprove the Church — they explain why Christ founded one in the first place. ✨⛪🔥

Some folks love to say, “Christians have done bad things — checkmate, Catholicism.”

Right — because the presence of sick people in a hospital proves the hospital isn’t real?

From day one, the Church began with a failing grade:

One hand-picked apostle sold Jesus for pocket change.

Another denied Him three times before sunrise.

The rest scattered like cats in a thunderstorm.

If betrayal, cowardice, and scandal disproved the Church…

Christianity would’ve ended in the upper room.

And yes — we’ve had bad popes, corrupt clergy, compromised leaders.

But that’s not a Church issue.

That’s a human one.

As Frank Herbert put it:

It’s not that power corrupts —

it’s that the corruptible are drawn to power in every institution:

schools, governments, corporations, scouting groups, ministries…

Why would the Church be the only place immune?

Here’s the miracle:

Despite twenty centuries of sinners,

the Gospel didn’t change.

The sacraments didn’t break.

The doctrine didn’t rot.

Grace kept healing people anyway.

The Church was never meant to be a trophy room for the perfect.

It’s triage for the wounded.

A hospital for sinners —

and only at the end will it become a mansion for saints.

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Wait, so you're telling me Christians were just winging it for 300 years without bishops, priests, or sacraments?! 😂 Meanwhile, Saint Ignatius of Antioch was over here writing about apostolic succession, the Eucharist, and Rome's primacy like it was day one. 🤯 Looks like some people missed the memo that the Papacy wasn't a medieval 'upgrade' but a 'day one' feature. 🤷‍♂️ So much for that 'church started in 325' theory! #ChristianHistory #FactCheck #NotAStartup #DayOneSettings #HistoryBuffs

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📜🔥 NEW SONG: “1 Cor 4:6 — He Didn’t Mean That”

A snarky, Scripture-soaked reality check for anyone trying to turn Paul’s rebuke of Corinthian bragging into a blueprint for Sola Scriptura.

Some folks love to quote, “Don’t go beyond what is written,”

as if Paul were founding a Bible-Only movement in A.D. 55

instead of correcting a pride problem in a church

that didn’t even have the New Testament yet.

And here’s the twist:

even the Reformers themselves — Calvin included — said this verse

had nothing to do with Sola Scriptura.

He said Paul was warning against boasting, not defining doctrine.

Wild how the modern proof-texting goes further than the Reformers…

and further than Paul.

This track walks through the context, the history,

and the ultimate irony:

the people using this verse to defend Sola Scriptura

are literally going beyond what is written

in order to make it say that.

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📜🔥 NEW SONG: “A Full Deck”

A snarky, Scripture-soaked reminder that having the fullness of truth is not bragging rights — it’s responsibility. Catholics may have the whole collection, but if we never play the cards, never enter the battle, never bear fruit… what good is a full deck sealed in plastic? ✝️🃏🔥

Some folks build fierce faith from a tiny binder — praying hard, studying hard, living loud — while many Catholics sit on the complete apostolic library like collectors who never actually play.

Pristine cards.

Uncreased edges.

Zero fruit.

And just to be clear — this song isn’t saying Protestants are “a few cards shy of a deck.”

(Although the joke writes itself.)

We’re talking about the fullness of truth, not intelligence or sincerity — and many of our Protestant brothers and sisters use the cards they do have with more zeal than most Catholics.

Jesus wasn’t subtle about this.

Branches that don’t bear fruit get cut from the tree.

Servants who bury their gifts lose everything.

A full deck is a gift — but Heaven expects a return.

This song is a wake-up call:

Use what you’ve been given.

Build the Kingdom with both hands.

Don’t admire the truth — live it.

🎶 “A Full Deck” — out now.

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