Is she ultimately hopelessly doomed to destruction for having betrayed... GOD?

From the powerful arrogance of the opening track "We Are Power," we see this superpower of all time: MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT, a lone super-state from which all the wealth and power in the world emanates. As our story unfolds, we see that though she may have no apparent enemies to her face, she has many to be found in herself. "Road to Madness" shows her people in a state of confusion. "Whore" shows her wicked lust for money. Has there ever been a song about the stock market before? "It's My Right" reveals the wonderful world of infighting over politics. Yet in "Savages with Cash," Mystery Babylon shows the full extent of her evil. She places many gods over the one true God that gave her high place to her. Idolatry in its highest form: worshipping her own celebrities and ultimately worshipping the nation-state itself.

But no tragedy would be complete without an introspective look into how all these things affect the individual. "Save My Soul" and "Evado Eversor" offer two totally different responses to the situation.

With "Mourning Glory" and "Divine Justice," the great empire is judged and ultimately reaps her reward. The reward for the listener is "Crestfallen," a melancholy soliloquy that eulogizes the lost empire.

For more information on the subject of Mystery Babylon and its possible association with America, check out these links:

America, the Babylon

Is American Babylon?

"The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity."
- John Adams -

"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."
- James Madison -

"Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."
- Thomas Jefferson, February 10, 1814 -

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