Parenting & Family Quote by Glenn Danzig

Danzig throws a Molotov cocktail of a sentence, and he knows exactly where it will land: in the reflexive outrage economy that protects institutions while policing dissent. The line is structured like a trial cross-examination, stacking two historically radioactive charges (religious violence, clerical abuse) to corner the listener into an uncomfortable yes. Then he pivots to the real target: not Christianity as private faith, but Christianity as an institution with cultural power and a talent for moral inversion.

The rhetorical trick is the whiplash of moral accounting. “It’s okay” isn’t approval; it’s an accusation of what society has normalized, excused, or memory-holed. By pairing “throughout centuries” with “throughout decades,” he widens the indictment: this isn’t ancient history, it’s a continuity. The final sting - “giving the people the power to think and be individual” - frames independent thought as the true heresy in systems that prefer obedience. Calling that “evil” exposes a subtext about how authority maintains itself: by branding autonomy as danger, skepticism as corruption, difference as threat.

Context matters. Danzig comes from punk and metal’s long tradition of anti-clerical provocation, where shock isn’t just theatrics, it’s a tool to break reverence. The line is less a careful brief than a blunt cultural critique: institutions can survive atrocity if they control the story, but they panic at people who stop asking for permission. It’s confrontational, yes - and it’s designed to be, because polite language is often the first casualty of protected power.