JAY-Z--------JESUS CAN'T SAVE YOU?

NOW, I would be the first to admit that once I heard Jay-Z said this, I wanted to call him the worst person in the world. Listening to it the first couple times through, I never even picked it up. The beat was so powerful, that my mind put the lyrics to the side (as amateur listeners of music do) and just paid attention to the instruments and how well they blended.

In "New York State of Mind", he states, "And Jesus can’t save you life starts when the church ends." WOW! I know right. He is obviously mocking Jesus and putting down Christianity.

WRONG!

Yes, he could have worded it differently. I wouldn't say it. LET ME EXPLAIN:

Context: This song is about NewYork. They city where Jay-Z is from. (DUH!) In the section that he says this phrase, he talks about a good girl gone bad. Phrases like, "Mommy took a bus trip and now she got her bust out, everybody ride her, just like a bus route..." I see it as the woman going to church even though she has repeatedly sinned and goes to church. Then she realizes that even though she goes to church and puts on a show of being righteous, she is still stuck in the same position as when she first entered. When he says, "Jesus can't save you....", he means that he save her from her present state. As if she is not willing to accept Him and will continue her sinning after she leaves church----when he says, "Life starts when the church ends.". I really don't think he would say this knowing of the backlash.

What do you think?