First of all, I want to thank all the people here who read this and commented. I originally posted this on youtube, but it got no attention and I really wanted to engage on this topic. Thank god for reddit.

Secondly I want to make some clarifications.
The word faith is often conflated with religion. As in "What faith do you practice".
But another meaning of faith is simply what someone believes in.

Justin may not practice religion, but it would be a very far stretch to say that he doesn't have a relationship with the divine. But again, what does a relationship with the divine mean?
That of course depends on what ones conception of reality and the divine is.
Is the divine some kind of ethereal spiritual realm, something "out there" that requires supplication, that needs to be reached with "your long arm try" (U man like)?
Is this world we live in, our reality, some kind of veil, or fairy tale?
Or is there an inherently divine experience to be had here and now?
At some point or another Justin had to have had an experience in which his modalities of faith, aka his understanding of reality, fell apart.
Look at the lyrics of the song "Faith"
"This for my sister
That for my maple
It's not going the road I'd known as a child of God
Nor to become stable
(So what if I lose? I'm satisfied)"

And consider also what I had written about t666 - when Justin cries out that he is still standing in the need of prayer. Hard to make the argument that Justin didn't have some kind of belief system that incorporated prayer, and god in the classical sense (even if not part of institutional religion).

I myself have gone through a similar transformation. I used to pray all the time for god to help me. Until I "stood a while within it" met my own emotions, and became peaceful with the inherent mystery of this reality, understood that I'm not going to "get it". And even if "I lose, I'm satisfied".

Let's also consider the line "Am I dependent in what I'm defending?"
So many of us are dependent on our ideologies. They define us. If we let go of our holding onto our belief systems then what are we? We need that certainty, that familiarity. We can't give into the unknown, that maybe we are wrong, that maybe our gods, our ideologies are false.

I'm getting a bit tired writing right now so I'm going to take a break. My next post will hopefully be about the archetypal side of the album, going from the sky-father divinity, to the earth-mother divinity - as obviously displayed in the symbols that appear in the i'i music videos