Protagonist: BELPHEGOR
Sin: Apathy

APATHY: Mankind has turned from spiritualism and a Western age of atheism / religious apathy / cynicism has begun. Theme: How, despite the corrosive and horrific impact of organised religion, the disintegration of faith in the Western world has led to a further, and perhaps irreversible, disintegration of morality, and the "sins" reign. People are apathetic to the plight of others - see the response to Syrian refugees and the pervading lack of feeling or empathy as to why they're fleeing their homes. Adult people respond with a selfish, fucked up response of "fuck off back to your own country, scroungers!“ or ignorant fear that “they’re all terrorists”. There’s a frustration at my/our inability to know how to counter this, as it descends into name calling and setting up of firm extremes of opinion, there is no clear way to combat hate as the religious apathy brought with it a decline in natural morality (I have no issue with the decline in the standing of organised religion, but its core is, surely, of positivity and compassion and that’s lacking in spades), and most people are content to be apathetic about the issues of the modern day. Apathy towards global morality is dragging us down.

Story: Satan is using Belphegor to sow this apathy, to divide man further into a tribal, look after our own mind-set. This is played out allegorically throughout the song, in Satan's attempts to turn Maria (the last of the Bloodline of Christ) away from God, via Belphegor, making her doubt her faith and God's credibility and validity. God shows her a vision of how he sees the future and her role… she thinks it's a nightmare and that the control over man that God seeks, as the way God sees as the path to restore order to the chaos, is abhorrent, and turns from him, renouncing her faith; though she is unaware of the alternative... By extinguishing the light of the last of the bloodline of Christ, Satan will end God’s last stranglehold and hope of reclaiming mankind on Earth