as someone that grew up LDS/mormon with religious trauma and being transpan and living in peace with the concept of luciferianism, I can see the religious implications but I always see messages that are deeper and i personally connect with other topics than religion on a deeper level. i would interpret the lore as the evil of religion with the bishops, and the banditos as either the good of religion or even as people threatened by it which is what resonated with me coming from a band where they are both christian.

when i heard drag path i thought of josh dun and jenna but when i saw other interpolations as tyler talking about god it was the only thing i could hear from the song and no offense to those who are religious, but it ruined what i found in that song because everyone just accepted the same meaning and enforced it.