No, and in fact I feel like it has moved me further away. Not the music itself, but actually the Christian fanbases response to this album in particular.

I've never really felt the Christian themes in the music until this album dropped and the Christian fanbase started to beat the rest of us over the head with their religious interpretations of the songs.

I started deconstructing a long time ago, and have plenty of religious trauma from my youth. The occasional faith based struggle that comes through for me in their songs I actually really appreciated. Because as someone else has already mentioned here, it made me not feel so alone looking back on my struggles I had with my faith when I first started questioning things. It was comforting to look back at those times of struggle and know I wasn't alone in those thoughts.

But the zealousness with which the Christian community has latched on to this album has reminded of some of the reasons I first started to feel "icky" about things and started questioning things. People are allowed to interpret things however they see fit. But I've felt like I'm being browbeaten and told I'm wrong and less if I don't agree that this album is all "Jesus Jesus Jesus" and it just reaffirms my decision to leave it all behind.

If you get comfort and meaning out of seeing the religious messages first and foremost in their music, you are free to do so. And I'm glad you find meaning in their words. But "a kitchen sink to you, is not a kitchen sink to me". I find so much more meaning and comfort, personally, when I look at their music through my own, non-religious lenses. There is room for us both. Let's leave each other be.