"God is a Weapon" analysis

hello guys! I'm sure many of you have heard Ronnie Radke and Marilyn Manson's new song. When you first listen to this song as a woman or as a sociopolitically informed person, you can tell the vibes are off from the start. The lyrics are not explicitly hateful, so why does it feels misogynistic? I’m here to explain! 

The lyrics play into deeply rooted cultural patterns that sexualize, demonize, and diminish female power: 

1. “If God is a woman, then God is a weapon.”

God is a figure of worship. In this song the main problem resides in the rejection of acknowledging the female divine as empowering, healing, nurturing or wise, diminishing her to a weapon. 

The female divine is not seen as capable to fulfill leadership or guidance roles, but instead she is a tool of destruction. This implies that the female divine is inherently dangerous, not worthy of admiration or sacredness. 

This conception feeds into historical misogynistic assumptions, like the witch archetype (powerful women are unnatural, evil, or a threat to men) or the patriarchal fear of female power (the minute a woman has power she must be controlled or punished). 

2. Objectification

Throughout the entire music video you can see the female body completely naked and many references to Adam and Eve. Keeping in mind the previous argument, when we analyze lines like: 

"The deeper that I get inside you, the deeper you will fall”
“My halo’s just a hole”

There’s an obvious reduction to the female divine as a sexual object whose value lies in her ability to destroy or corrupt. 

The song centers around male pleasure and frames women as temptresses who causes harm or a mere vessel for males to sin, rather than an omnipotent respected being. Therefore, the song’s message, even if they portray God as a woman, her only roles are to be worshipped sexually, tempt and ruin men. In the entire song she’s deshumanizad (worshiped, fucked, feared, and lastly blamed), even though she’s being compared to a sacred figure. 

It is a mere projection of male ego, fear of losing power and dominance, rather than a celebration of the female divine.

So, in conclusion, “God is a Weapon” is not just an edgy or obscurely artistic anti-catholic song. It’s entirely shaped by societal impositions that deserve to be called out.